No Umbrellas: Independent-minded SoLow Festival hits Philly May 13-23

Local performance artist/friend of CritMass Thomas Choinacky, who spent the entire month of May last year dancing his way through Philadelphia, has been spreading the word about this spring's similarly independent-minded SoLow Festival. The weeklong fest, headquartered at Underground Arts at the Wolf Building (340 N. 12th St.) but happening all over the city, is the latest venture from Choinacky's off-the-grid Anthology Project (which we've written about here, here and here). The goal? Get Philly artists creating, collaborating and experimenting — without breaking the bank, or crushing their spirits. The gist, according to a recent press release: SoLow Festival is an inexpensive artistic event dedicated to promoting new and experimental work. SoLow Festival offers a platform for original and solo performance, as well as visual work to be presented in a collective manner. Bringing together anywhere from a dozen to fifty performing artists this May 13th to 23rd, SoLow focuses on the artistic creation and growth of these artists with conceiving new work with low or no-cost risk. Developers Choinacky and Amanda Grove stress the grass-roots nature of SoLow — the fest, in the spirit of the Fringe, isn't sponsored by any umbrella organization, and is really all about community and creativity. "Hopefully, by lifting the constraint and risk of financial responsibility," according to the release, "artists will feel free to experiment, explore, and take bigger risks." The deadline to apply to the SoLow Festival is THURSDAY, APRIL 15; performances can range from 5 to 45 minutes, and they'll ask for $5 donations at the door of each performance. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go right to the artists. For more information, visit the Anthology Project's Web site, or friend SoLow on Facebook. And don't forget, the deadline for Fringe applications is this Friday, April 2. RELATED >> Calling All Artists: Spring is Deadline City

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No Umbrellas: Independent-minded SoLow Festival hits Philly May 13-23

POSTED: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 8:15 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Arts Events | Arts News | Dance | On the Fringe Theater

Local performance artist/friend of CritMass Thomas Choinacky, who spent the entire month of May last year dancing his way through Philadelphia, has been spreading the word about this spring's similarly independent-minded SoLow Festival. The weeklong fest, headquartered at Underground Arts at the Wolf Building (340 N. 12th St.) but happening all over the city, is the latest venture from Choinacky's off-the-grid Anthology Project (which we've written about here, here and here). The goal? Get Philly artists creating, collaborating and experimenting — without breaking the bank, or crushing their spirits. The gist, according to a recent press release:

SoLow Festival is an inexpensive artistic event dedicated to promoting new and experimental work. SoLow Festival offers a platform for original and solo performance, as well as visual work to be presented in a collective manner. Bringing together anywhere from a dozen to fifty performing artists this May 13th to 23rd, SoLow focuses on the artistic creation and growth of these artists with conceiving new work with low or no-cost risk.

Developers Choinacky and Amanda Grove stress the grass-roots nature of SoLow — the fest, in the spirit of the Fringe, isn't sponsored by any umbrella organization, and is really all about community and creativity. "Hopefully, by lifting the constraint and risk of financial responsibility," according to the release, "artists will feel free to experiment, explore, and take bigger risks." The deadline to apply to the SoLow Festival is THURSDAY, APRIL 15; performances can range from 5 to 45 minutes, and they'll ask for $5 donations at the door of each performance. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go right to the artists. For more information, visit the Anthology Project's Web site, or friend SoLow on Facebook. And don't forget, the deadline for Fringe applications is this Friday, April 2. RELATED >> Calling All Artists: Spring is Deadline City

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