April news

Hello everyone,

We have a few upcoming events for you to look out for:

First Cynthia will be a part of the Second Sundays performance at CounterPulse on Mothers Day (that's May 11th if you don't love your mama). She will be showing part of her new piece 'The Hundred and Ninth Bead'. All new. Go and see it and you can be part of the question and answer period afterwards!

Cynthia and Ken will also be performing in the West Wave Festival this summer at Theater Artaud in August. We will post more on that as it gets closer.

Also for those of you who missed the Dance IS Festival, you can catch Burrow/Pond/Coop on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQis-wjv8sU.

Take care all - more news soon!

Dance IS Festival

Just a quick note that Ken James and Chris Black have a few new pieces they are showing in the Dance IS Festival at the Julia Morgan Theater on March 8th!

8pm. Don't miss it!

FTPG has met its match

As you know from your previous reading, the East Bay Community Fund gave us an $8,000 matching grant in September. Well, thanks to the generosity of all of you, we made our match!!! This means that 'Intersecting Stories' has the money to pay all the artists who are working on the project .

We will keep you posted as to how everything is going and how the piece is shaping up! stay tuned...

Upcoming performances in the Wrecking Ball performance at ODC Theater, Jan. 19th (the last before the theater is rebuilt) and in the Dance IS show on March 8th.

Cynthia Gets A Chime!

Cynthia and Deborah Slater are one of five pairs of dance artists who were selected to receive the coveted Chime (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Awards. These awards were established to formalize the exchange and feedback mechanisms between established and emerging California choreographers. The awards supports the artists with grants and studio space (up to 500 hours!) for a year.

Deborah Slater will be working with Cynthia to push forward in her work and reexamine her modes of working.

This is exciting, folks!


In other news, we are more than half way to reaching our fundraising goal for the East Bay Community Foundation matching grant we received earlier this fall. We still need about $3000 so please consider donating to support artist fees for a new innovative work coming out in 2008! More information about Intersecting Stories and how to donate can be found on the website at www.ftpg.org.

Fellow Travelers Performance Group artistic directors Ken James and Cynthia Adams are announcing the newest fellow travelers: Leo Sergio. 8 months old, fiesty, and a great jumper, Leo Sergio James is officially the youngest of the fellow travelers group.

Updates and pushing to new things

You NEED to go to the Cartoon Art Museum in SF as soon as possible. Not only is there an Edward Gorey exhibit, but also Lark Pien has an exhibit. Lark is the artist who worked with Chris Black and Myself on the Adventures of Cunning & Guile and she is the best. You don't want to miss this.




FTPG updates:
I am going to be an OHIO ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITYEXCELLENCE AWARDS PANELIST in December. I will be in Columbus OH to watch artists work and help fund it. Very exciting.

Having recieved a very generous grant from the East Bay Community Foundation, we are in fundraising mode. The $8,000 grant is for artist fees for my new piece scheduled to come out in 2008. This one will be an installaiton piece - dance is small spaces and outside of theaters. We are hoping to be able to move it easily to galleries, studios or any space we can perform in. In order to recieve the grant, we have to match it, so if you have liked the work you've seen in the past - you can have a huge impact on helping create this new one. anything you send doubles! yeee-haw! like public radio on a smal scale.

That is about it for today. this is the last weekend of PASTIME and it is in Golden Gate Park. Free and fun - if you miss this you will kick yourself. also, Circ Zero is at Theater Artaud with sol niger -

Grants and Baseball

Hello Fellow Travelers Fans!

We have recieved good news that means we need your help. FTPG has just recieved an $8,000 grant from the East Bay Community Foundation! Why we need your help it that it is a dollar for dollar matching grant - meaning we have to raise $8000 to get the $8,000! Now is the time if you have been meaning to support FTPG but haven't gotten to sending a check. Please send anything you can to help us get hold of this grant money! This is a huge opportunity for FTPG to fully bring our collaborators on board and allow them the time and energy they need to help make the work GREAT! More soon...

On a different note:

I just saw the opening day of Chris Black's Pastime down by the SF Embarcadero. Ok, you should all go see this. Free. Outside. Awesome dancing and beautiful music trasnmitted to your transistor radio. What more can you ask? www.potrzebie.com for details as to which park it is in and when. Well worth seeing. A great show to ease all your non-dance friends into the scene.