The Great Dickens Christmas Fair Missive
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Dickens Christmas Fair 2010
December Missive #3
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Notes from your Missive Maven:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks everyone for a wonderful first three weekends! We broke records all days but one!
One
more weekend to go, so remember to pace yourself and bring protein bars
and water in case you can't get through those busy food lines.
Quiet Near Stages!
Please
watch your volume near the stages and environmental areas! The
performers have worked very hard on their shows, don't break into one of
their carefully crafted pieces with a street bit that could easily be
done elsewhere. This is especially true during Mikado on the V&A between 1:30 and 2:45.
Weather -
Yes, it looks like we're going to have some stormy weather this weekend, so please plan accordingly.
Bring "brollies" to share between the green room annex and the fair buildings.
Bring jong johns to wear under your costume if it's cold. (I do)
Allow extra drive time to get to the Cow Palace in case other people don't drive well in the rain.
Yes, we're making plans too!
Especially to have a fabulous, drama free, closing weekend!
Please remember to contact the folks referenced in each notice below, rather than hitting "reply".
Past missives can be viewed at http://www.cattaylor.com/missives.html
Cat Taylor
Entertainment Director and Missive Maven
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In This Missive
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No Outside Alcohol - It Endangers Our Fair!
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Last Day Pranks
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Possible Traffic Issues: Doyle Drive to Park Presidio - Postponed
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Stage Quiet Zones, Green Room Security, Fleece Jackets
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Costumes: Closing Weekend Hours, Shop Needs, Donations & Next Year
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Venue Tear-Down Dates, Hours & Information
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Fantastic Feature Appeared in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News
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Scrooge/Martin Harris at The Freight & Salvage Dec. 21st 7:30PM
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Dark Garden Raffle Tickets Still Available
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Annie's Cheap Hair Lingers On!
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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Ye Gaskells 31st Victorian Holiday Ball This Saturday Evening
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Ashland Center for Theatre Studies - Millinery Class
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A Closing Quote from "A Christmas Carol"
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No Outside Alcohol - It Endangers Our Fair!
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Our
event is granted a liquor license under very specific rules. One of
the rules is that there is no 'outside' alcohol allowed by customers AND
participants.
Participants who bring alcohol to the event and consume it by themselves and/or share it, put our liquor license at risk.
Please,
before you bring that beer, wine or liquor into the fair, remember that
you could be endangering our lovely playground. If the ABC see this
happening, we will lose our liquor license! Like any
business, the Fair is a delicate balance of income and expense, and we
depend on the income from our ale stands to help pay our bills, Without
it, we won't have a fair. So please - do not bring in outside alcohol!
Thank you.
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Last Day Pranks
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Please,
if you "conscientiously feel it is your duty" to do some sort of last
day prank, keep it period appropriate and theatrically valid.
If you can't do a prank that
#1 Is in period and doesn't break the illusion of Victorian England
#2 Is in proper costume and appropriate for your character
#3 Is not disruptive to the participants around you
#4 Adds to customer enjoyment, does not detract from it
Don't do it.
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Possible Traffic Issues: Doyle Drive to Park Presidio - Postponed
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The closure of
the 101S to 19th Ave. on the 18th-19th and 19th Ave. to 101N this
weekend have been postponed due to the rain and will be rescheduled in
January. (They just now called me back... whew).
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Stage Quiet Zones, Green Room Security, Fleece Jackets
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(from Teri Pope)
Notes from The Fair Stage Manager
Stage Quiet Zones:
Just
a reminder that the area around our fixed theaters and environmental
theater areas like the Green Man and Legion Fantastique are Major Quiet
Zones!
Do NOT run your street gig, warm-up, or impromptu Jam
Session near any of the theatres unless you have OK'ed it in advance
with the director or stage manager.
Please respect your fellow
performers and don't pull focus from the stage by being noisy outside
the theater. This is not polite to fellow performers or to our
customers watching the show, and you will bring down the wrath of a
stage manager upon you!
Green Room Security:
Please do not try to sneak your non-participant friends into the Green Rooms
or backstage areas. Our security does a great job monitoring this,
but occasionally may be called away. Just remember that, if you sneak a
buddy into the Green Room, and something goes missing from there, that you are responsible because YOU let them in! So, just do the right thing
and don't bring them in. Yes, this applies to YOU! :-)
Dickens Fair Fleece Jackets:
Two
of you, a Ladye Katherine and a Mr. O'Golly, ordered fleece jackets.
Please pick them up from the Ops trailer this weekend, and as soon as
possible! They will NOT be mailed to you! So, if you leave them this
weekend, I will take them! I always wanted to be a "Ladye!"
Have a great final weekend, take care of yourselves, and make it a great closing weekend!
Teri Pope
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Costumes: Closing Weekend Hours, Shop Needs,
Donations & Next Year
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(from Liz Martin)
It's That Time Already
I
simply cannot believe that it is closing weekend already! Where did the
time go? The streets of London have never looked as good as they have
this season. Let's keep it up for closing weekend as well. Please
remember that you should be wearing the costume that you were approved
in and have worn for the past 3 weekends. Closing weekend is often full
of pranks and costume switches. Please do not engage in this behavior.
'Nuff said.
Hours
We
will be keeping normal hours this weekend, opening at 9 and closing at
7:30. Sunday might be a bit tricky, but we will do our best.
We
will be collecting the long term rental fees on Sunday morning. If you
happen to come by costumes to return an item and we are not there here's
what to do. Please hang your items on hangers and hang them on the
designated rack. If they are on multiple hangers, rubber band them
together and put a note on them saying whose they are. Rubber-bands and
tags will be on the table just outside the door.
Thank you for choosing the Dickens Fair Costume Shop for your costume needs.
Costume Shop Needs
And
speaking of Costume Shop needs - it's time for our annual call for
hangers! We thought we could make it thru but alas, we were wrong! we'd
prefer plastic hangers but will take wire, especially the pants style.
So check your closets and bring them on in!
Donations
And
while you are checking the closets - are there any costume items that
you would like to donate? or perhaps that you borrowed in decades pst
and forgot to return? Drop those on by as well, we'd love to help you
remove the clutter from your lives!
Looking Towards Next Year
If
you would like to know as early as possible what the costume "hit list"
will be for 2011, please send me an email to be put on the mailing list
for classes and workshops. I know I have said this for the past two
years, but this year there will be classes! To sign up, send an email to costumersstudio@gmail.com with "Sign me up" in the subject line
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Venue Tear-Down Dates, Hours & Information
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Performers,
please try and clean up as much of your area as you can after
closing this Sunday evening. This would especially include
small, breakable things, musical instruments, purses, wallets,
etc. For those of you at stages, please clean up all the trash
you find, even if it's not yours or that of your cast.
The
V&A and Sal's stages evidently had quite a bit of trash
backstage even days after closing, that other people had to
clean up. Please take everything away that you brought in with
you.
I am endeavoring to have dumpsters outside the V&A and Sal's stages, for your use.
Note: 9PM cutoffs may be extended to 10, but need to be approved by Genevieve.
12/19 Close - building open till Security closes at 11 PM
12/20 - Monday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
12/21 - Tuesday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
12/22 - Wednesday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
12/23 - Thursday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
12/24 - Christmas Eve - Friday - Open at: 10AM Close at: 5PM
12/25 - Christmas - Closed
12/26 - Sunday - Open at: 10AM Close at: 9PM
12/27 - Monday - extra forklift rented - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
GREENROOM CLEAN-UP DEADLINE (remaining items dumpstered)
12/28 - Tuesday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
12/29 - Wednesday - Open at: 8AM Close at: 9PM
VENDOR DEADLINE 5:00 PM
Special
to environmental areas: Genevieve will be delivering approved pallets,
please do not take pallets from the green room or elsewhere without
checking with her first. We are trying to improve the efficiency of the
shipping and storage of all environmental area building materials.
Please note the following three important changes:
1. Stacks may not exceed five feet in height without approval from Kevin or Genevieve
2. The top of all loads must be perfectly flat, plywood or heavy wall flat preferred
3. No lumber in excess on eight feet in length can be incorporated into
your stack. Any pieces longer than eight feet must be set to the side,
properly labeled and approved by Kevin or Genevieve.
Genevieve's email address is dickensfairtd@gmail.com
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San Jose Mercury News, Chinese National Radio & The NY Times!
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Update from our PR Maven, Adrienne Biggs:
Check out this fantastic feature that appeared in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News.
http://www.mercurynews.com/holidays/ci_16801718?nclick_check=1
This story was picked also up by the Marin IJ which ran a full cover page with photos yesterday
Chinese national radio is coming Saturday and the Arts and Culture
reporter for the New York Times will be there Sunday for a feature to
appear Christmas Eve!
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Scrooge/Martin Harris at The Freight & Salvage Dec. 21st 7:30PM
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(from Martin Harris)
I'd like to say a most sincere thank you to the whole cast for the love
and care shown towards me this year regarding my personal situation
and just say I find it most supportive and encouraging, all the prayers
are well received, thankyou.
Having got slammed with a big
legal bill for my immigration status there is one way that would help
me is by attending the the special reading I'm booked for at:
The Freight and Salvage Dec 21st 7.30pm which is such a wonderful venue for this.
I also have the double cassette of my dramatic reading of the full
unedited 3hr A Christmas Carol, a CD of the shortened version 1hour and
twenty minutes and my very first DVD of the reading last year at The
Freight and Salvage. I'll have them at Fair this weekend. They make a
wonderful gift and last much longer than a box of chocolates!
Watch out for my Fools Jig at Sundays Blow Out show.
Again thanks for all your help and support.
God Bless Us, Everyone!
Martin
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Dark Garden Raffle Tickets Still Available
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(from Autumn Adamme)
Dark Garden raffle tickets still available- will you be a winner?
Over
the years there have been over a dozen winners of the famed raffle,
will you join the ranks? Just like the lottery, you can only win if you
play! See a form of socialism in action...band together to see two
people become Dark Garden corset owners this year. The ticket price
applies directly to the purchase price of the corsets and even covers
sales tax!, no extra money is made on the sales of these little red and
blue tickets.
Tickets for both a chance at a ready-to-wear and a
custom Dark Garden corset are still available and on sale at Lady
Lovelace's Photo Parlour.
Ready-to-wear tickets are $3 and custom tickets are $5
For the first time we are offering a free ticket with every 5 purchased, yes, that's 6 chances at winning for the price of 5!
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Annie's Cheap Hair Lingers On!
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(from Annie Lore)
Annie Sez: Still a few pieces waiting for pickup at Madame Louise's,
and it looks as though one more order will go in soon, so if there's
anything you need, speak up! Write Annie Lore at ImminentIdea@aol.com Cheers!
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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(from Adam Hansen)
I came upon this free eBook via the Gutenberg Project today, and
thought it might be useful, or at least interesting, to some of the
lowlifes that inhabit the streets of our London. It's the 1811
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402
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Ye Gaskells 31st Victorian Holiday Ball This Saturday Evening
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YE GASKELLS 31st VICTORIAN HOLIDAY BALL: Saturday, December 18th
Ye Gaskell Occasional Dance Society hosts the 31st Annual Fancy Dress
Victorian
Holiday Ball, in the magnificent Ballroom of Scottish Rite Center, 1547
Lakeside Drive on scenic Lake Merritt in Oakland. (The parking lot
entrance is around the back on Madison Street.) The Brassworks plays
from 8:30 p.m. until 12:00 Midnight. Elegant Victorian period attire as
well as modern formal & semi-formal attire are welcome. Gaskells
favorites include waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, Sir Roger de
Coverley and The Congress of Vienna. Plus, for the Holidays, dance to
Christmas Carol Waltzes and the music of Tchaikovskyıs Nutcracker
Ballet!
$20 Admission includes a complimentary dance lesson at
7:40, the famous Ye Gaskellıs Punch& potluck fingerfood. (Everyone
is welcome to bring food to share!) A Dance Class is offered from 3:45
to 6:15 p.m. in the same ballroom, for a separate $10 admission.
Next Gaskell Balls: February 26th and April 16th, 2011.
For more info visitwww.GaskellBall.com.
Note from Liz Martin:
We'd
like to make it a bit less stressful for those attending the famed
Gaskell's Ball on Saturday evening post Dickens. Therefore, ball gowns
are appropriate for wear after 3 at the fair as long as they are period
appropriate to the fair (1842 - 1863 - No bustles, please.) . Have a
great time and we look forward to seeing your finery!
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Ashland Center for Theatre Studies - Millinery Class
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(from Robin Edwards)
I
can guarantee that this is a GREAT program and a wonderful class to
take. The instructor is INCREDIBLY knowledgeable and I have learned I
get SOOO MUCH out of these ala carte classes.
http://www.sou.edu/acts/courses/costumecrafts.html
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A Closing Quote from "A Christmas Carol"
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(from Charles Dickens - via Therese Porter)
"There
are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have
not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the
rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has
come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and
origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good
time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I
know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by
one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people
below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and
not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore,
uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I
believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God
bless it!"
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For specific questions regarding performing at the Fair, please email Cat Taylor
If your group would like to perform at the Fair for just one day (school caroling groups, etc.)
please email Robert Young
For specific questions regarding vending at the Fair please email Vendors
For specific questions the beverage department please email Beverage
For questions regarding costumes, please email Costumes
To learn what you can do to help save the Cow Palace, please visit
http://www.savethecowpalace.com
To join the public email list, please click here http://www.dickensfair.com/informed
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