\u201cThis year, you can find us at nearly 100 venues, from traditional theaters and large cultural institutions to neighborhood bars and city sidewalks,\u201d Bang-Jensen said. \u201cWe are excited to continue to grow our presence across the city, amplifying the incredible artistry already happening in every neighborhood. Audiences can look forward to hundreds of experiential performances that will inspire them to see their neighbors, their neighborhoods, and the city in new ways. Philly is scrappy, gritty, and downright magical because we are all lucky enough to be in the midst of this wild creative expression, and it is never more abundant than during the Philly Fringe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Festival Hub program will feature the return of popular hubs Cannonball, Circus Campus Presents, Dumb Hub, and Studio 34. New this year are The Lemonade Stand, a home for fresh work and new artists, focused on supporting those who are emerging in the arts scene, and Performance Garage, a dedicated hub for dance and theater at the historic venue, which started out as a horse stable in 1865.<\/p>\n
These hubs provide a comprehensive extension of the Fringe Festival into Philadelphia\u2019s vibrant neighborhoods and provide regular programming throughout the festival, generating artist and audience communities. Each hub features more than a dozen experiences in centralized locations.<\/p>\n
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The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is transforming a former industrial space into an otherworldly airport terminal in “Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle.” (Courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret)<\/p>\n
A new, immersive installation from the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, \u201cPriority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle,\u201d is transforming a former industrial space at 444 North Third St. into an otherworldly airport terminal. \u201cPriority Hoarding\u201d is a large-scale, interactive experience that blends performance, installation art and participatory ritual.<\/p>\n
Framed as a journey on a fictional \u201creceding airline,\u201d the project offers a playful yet poignant retrospective of the caberet\u2019s 16-year history: What they\u2019ve made, what they\u2019ve carried, and what they\u2019re ready to release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve accumulated a lot of baggage over 16 years of producing queer art, and this project is about looking forward through looking back,\u201d said Rose Jarboe (she\/her), founding artistic director of Bearded Ladies Cabaret. \u201cIt\u2019s about honoring the past while making space for whatever comes next, and doing it with joy, absurdity, and a lot of puns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Part exhibition, part performance, and part emotional reckoning, the experience unfolds as a \u201cflight of fancy\u201d in which small groups of audience members move through a series of imaginative environments.<\/p>\n
From a retro \u201chairport lounge\u201d space filled with curated suitcases containing memories of past performances to a whimsical terminal complete with karaoke, ritual checkpoints, and a final departure into a cardboard kitchen modeled on the real kitchen where the Bearded Ladies began in 2010, each stage invites participants to engage with memory, legacy and transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and it doesn\u2019t show any sign of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1047168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,171,32672,1448,2830,1311,20348,1148,1072,11104,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1047167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-entertainment","tag-ontap","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-county","tag-theater","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117224946504635091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}