Trouble at BitsF

In the midst of the chaos of the current flood disaster, I am sad to have to report to you that Bits Festival, like the Drift Restaurant pontoon, is going under.

As some of you were aware, I was not involved in organising the festival in 2010, having a production of my own to deal with.  I am only now being made aware of some of the debts that the festival has incurred, and as ours is an unincorporated association, a partnership in effect, we are all personally responsible for those debts.

One of the unexpected debts came about when Tribal Theatre transformed themselves from a sponsor to a renter of space, hitting us with a huge bill for hire of the venue.  That reminds me, I must change their status on our website!

So, this is just a brief update, I will let you know more details of the situation as they become available.

 

Program Update

A hundred thousand apologies, but again – due to circumstances way beyond our control, and beyond the control of any of the performance groups – tomorrow’s performances at Aromas, Regent Street, have been cancelled.

Fringe Bar have very kindly offered to host these shows, so head along there around 2.30 pm and you may be in for a surprise treat. Formal program takes off at 3pm as advertised.

Thank you, Fringe Bar, continuing to support Fringe Theatre!

Some changes to the program

Never a dull moment with Fringe theatre!  Due to circumstances beyond our control, all of Sunday’s performances will now take place at Tribal Theatre, George Street in the City.  Thank you so much, Tribal Theatre!

We also have a change to Saturday’s program, which will be confirmed in an hour or two.  Apologies for any inconvenience, we are doing our very best to ensure smoothest possible running, but this is RAW, it is REAL and it is THIS WEEKEND>

BitsF 2010 The Artists are Here

Whose Bits? Get the word out!

Here’s the line-up for the Festival, which takes place this weekend from Friday evening to Sunday evening, at four venues across the city and beyond.

Date	Time (Approx)	Venue	Production Co	Title
Friday Session Start 7.30pm	7.30pm	Tribal Theatre	Gumball Theatre	Gumball Theatre - Launch of Brissie’s newest improv comedy company!
Saturday  Session Start 12pm	12pm	Aromas	Gallipoli Grey	The Order of the Boot
Saturday	12.30pm	ProductionsAromas	Revue Factory	Sir Phillip will have his Revenge!
Saturday	1.00pm	Aromas	Edge Improv	The Harold
Saturday Session Start 2pm	2.00pm	Fringebar	Spiraling Out	Spiraling Out
Saturday	2.15pm	Fringebar	Girlclumsy Productions	Not Cool Like Grandma
Sunday  Session Start 2pm	2.00pm	The Joynt	Spangled Aura Productions	The Inner Monologues: First Crush
Sunday	2.10pm	The Joynt	Soulla Pants	Soulla Pants
Sunday	2.20pm	The Joynt	Creatica Media	Christina Goodman
Sunday  Session Start 2.15pm	2.15pm	Tribal Theatre	Two write Girlz	Little Ponds
Sunday	3.45pm	Tribal Theatre	The Sexy Detective	The Sexy Detective Show
Sunday	4.10pm	Tribal Theatre	The Sherbet Underground	The Underground & Friends Hour
Sunday	4.40pm	Tribal Theatre	Gumball Theatre	The Budding Gumballs
Sunday, BITS FESTIVAL 2010 WRAP PARTY	5.30pm	Tribal Theatre	Creatica Media	Christina Goodman
			Maz Bang and Jola Franks
			Festival Junkie
			Jester Royale

Thanks so our wonderful partners, the venues, who are providing space out of the goodness of their hearts and their love of live theatre

Aromas, Regent Theatre, Queen Street, Brisbane

Program Launch

Here it is, the first sneak peak at the program for Bits Festival 2010.

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From Friday evening 26th November to Sunday evening 28th November, 16 companies present 16 rocking bits of work at 5 venues.

More details to follow…

We’re Flying High

Brisbane Festival has sent out the word that applications for next year’s Under The Radar will be opening in the next few weeks.

But why wait?  Why not register for BitsFestival, now, and join in a fringe festival of like-minded independent theatre makers who don’t need an invitation, or a selection committee to give them permission to perform.

Register at www.bitsfestival.com, select your venue of choice, your time of choice, and present your work in full, or in bits.

Call for Volunteers!

Now that registration is OPEN, and we are starting to receive the registrations from some very early birds, we would like to set up a team of Volunteers to help coordinate the program and the artists at the various venues on the day.

If you would like to be involved, contact us via the website and put General Enquiry in the subject line.

Registration 2010 is Open

Yes, Registration for the Brisbane Independent Theatre Sampler Festival is now Open, so head on over to www.bitsfestival.com and hit the button on the left hand side:  ”Bits for Artists”.

Go get those Bits out to share. This is Brisbane’s non-curated Fringe Festival. The team has everything in place to help YOU to make it happen again, bigger and better, and no looking back! (Unless you are doing a production of Orpheus and Euridyce, of course)

Promoting your event?

The Brisbane Festival is still running, there is a whole week in which to enjoy some pretty amazing international work, along with the local program.

New work opening next month includes Oscar TC‘s [title of show], Gwen in Purgatory at Laboite, When the Rain Stops Falling at QTC, and Catholic Schoolgirls at Metro Arts.

Metro Arts are accepting proposals for next year’s Independents Program,  get your application in before October 31.

Let me know if you have a show going on in Brisbane between now and BitsF, and we’ll promote it here.

Here’s one to start with - blatant self-promotion, I freely admit: Thunder’s Mouth Theatre presents The Fall of June Bloom (or What You Will) at the Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio, from 9th to 12th November. Check for details here.