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KL Brisby, William B.J. Robinson, Delores Fisher, Paul Arajo San Diego Fringe Festival 2017 presented another definite hit show with the cast of  K. L. Brisby's historically researched script "The Yellow Hell of Vincent Van Gogh: a memoir of music and blood." KL Brisby and Gingerlily Lowe are San Diego theater icons. I met them approximately 30 years ago when I was cast as Uncle Remus in a show with Brisby. It was a slightly controversial yet innovative theater story project. As I remember it, lead male actors pulled away from the show due to socio-cultural community "fall out." Encouraged to try the role, I helped to create a cross generational/gender role. Uncle Remus-a male character based on the Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus folktales, is played as an aging slave almost 80 years old. The musical played to a packed house for children and adults every show. As with my stage work at other theaters and with so many other nationally acclaimed Sa...

Lacresha Berry and Delores Fisher after show conversation San Diego Fringe Festival is noted for choosing innovative performers with a message. The second dynamic one woman show that I saw at Fringe Festival San Diego was Harriet Tubman portrayed by Lacresha Berry caused a resonance within me as an educator. Check out the full post. It can be found at https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/san-diego-international-fringe-festival-2017-berrys-harriet-tubman/ Other educators in attendance agreed including Fanny Garvey, international educator.                       Fanny Garvey and Lacresha Berry  Oh yea. . .  music lovers, remember the group Mandrill? Well, Pasadena talk show host Debra "Smilelady" and Ric Wilson of the group Mandrill was also in the audience. I enjoyed  talking and sharing upcoming projects after the show.           ...

                     Kathleen Denny Writer/Performance Artist San Diego 2017 San Diego International Fringe Festival is in its 5th year. It's Kathleen Denny's 1st San Diego Fringe. I hope she comes back. Her show, "Nice Is Not What We Do" directed by Mark Kenward is fascinating. Kevin Patterson has another hit series this year from local  producer directors like K.L. Brisby and Gingerlily Lowe-(The Yellow Hell"), national performers: Kathleen Denny-"Nice Is Not What We Do", and international writers, performers, producers, directors like bi-national artist Melissa Cisneros-Mexico ("Juego De Las Microacciones") to Giorgia Mazzucato-Italy "(Lifegate"). Kathleen Denny knows how to plug a show. She is a gracious and engaging conversationalist. I was so excited about seeing the "Big Kitchen-A Counter Cultural Cabaret Take 2" that I had arrived a half hour early. Ms Denny and I sta...

                                                           Poet Olga Gutierrez-Garcia Hello this June to new readers in Australia, Portugal, Ukraine, and Indonesia. San Diego has had a burst of sunshine. For those of you planning to visit, we still have evening fog rolling in and temperature drops; compared to hot days, a few degrees colder is most appreciated. The changing temperature from May/grey, June/Gloom to sunny definitely was a plus for Olga Garcia's reading at San Diego's Cafe Cabaret. I see a flier in my email a few days earlier and consider going to the reading. Olga's new works are full of flavorful and sometimes abrasively juxtaposed images and metaphors. Host Jim Moreno is making sure that people get the ...

                                                       Delores Fisher  June reminiscing The flier stated: GZA would lecture at San Diego State on April 11, 2017. I blinked my eyes in disbelief. GZA? Wu-Tang Clan's GZA? Wha-a-a-at? I kept the flier in my briefcase, took it out several times for those two weeks before the event. It was going take careful scheduling. On April 11th, I would be teaching the Tuesday/Thursday Afras 140 Oral Communication class that spanned early morning into early noon on the other side of campus. It was a sure bet that a GZA speaking event event would have standing room only. (It did--someone kindly gave me their seat.) I excitedly decided to hear him in person. I  stayed a...

Welcome to Notesong readers in Norway!                                                Photo by Delores Fisher Here in the USA, April, May, June, are months filled with late night frantic studying, final exams, proms, graduation ceremonies and  honor society initiations. On April 14, 2017, Phi Kappa Phi San Diego State Chapter 96 held its annual initiation/induction with over one hundred and thirty inductees accepted into the all-discipline honor society https://www.phikappaphi.org/                             San Diego State Chapter 96  http://pkp.sdsu.edu/dus/phi_kappa_phi/   president Dr. Stephen Schellenberg. vice president Michelle Lopez, other officers and members at ...