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RBP Neighborhood Missive for August/September
(sent August 21st, 2008)

Hello everyone,

We have a bit of everything for you today, an audition notice, a theater notice, a dance notice, a memorial notice, a Cow Palace update  and more. Please remember to contact the individual posters with questions, I am just the messenger. Oh, and don't forget that September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Cat

PS More Dickens Fair audition notices will be forthcoming


In This Missive:
Beware of Reunion.com
Cow Palace Update
Dickens Fair: Legion Fantastique Auditions
Memorial Ugma For Ken E. Millkan
The Benicia Old Town Theatre Group Needs Men!
PEERS: Space 1889: The Adventure of Le Cirque de Venus
San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (SF BATS)


Beware of Reunion.com
I've been getting emails purporting to be from people I know looking for me on Reunion.com. What's really going on is that Reunion.com's software is going into their address book and sending spam to everyone in it.  This is not the only online site that does this, I was getting emails from another one with the same modus operandi earlier this year. The moral of the story is, don't allow any of these sites access to your online email address book.
www.igotspam.com/50226711/...ioncom.php


Cow Palace Update
Dear Friend of the Cow Palace,

Thank you for receiving the flurry of emails in the last few weeks. Thanks also if you wrote emails, sent faxes and made calls. Here is where we are:

SB1527 moved ahead, passing the Assembly Committee on Appropriations on 8/7/08. We tried to get them to see that a long term lease of the 13 acres of Cow Palace remote parking lot is better than the forced sale required by the bill.  This fell on deaf ears.

Now the bill will proceed to the Assembly Floor for a full vote sometime in the near future.  No date has been set.

Please look for an Urgent Action email as soon as we have a target date. We will also need to send letters and make calls to the Governor at that time.

Again, you will get an email and details when it is time to act again.

Thanks!!!

Kevin


Dickens Fair: Legion Fantastique Auditions
Yes! La Legion Fantastique, the Jules Verne area of Dickens Fair, returns once again for a triumphant run. This year, we are focusing our lens even tighter upon the characters and situations created by Jules Verne.  This year, we have transformed our (larger) environment from a simple museum, into a small performance space! We will be featuring theatrical presentations, character work, and audience participation activities.

We are looking for talented actors who are willing to go the "extra mile" for putting on a bigger than life performance…and who work well with our audience. We have roles for adventurers, scientists, explorers, and villains!

YES, WE HAVE FEMALE ROLES AVAILABLE!

Besides our character work, we will be featuring four…count them, FOUR shows – each requiring its own cast! These shows are:

1. "Return to the Center of the Earth" – An audience participatory "magic lantern" show. Bigger and better than last year's show! (2 actors, male or female)

2. "Quest for the Nautilus" – Another "magic lantern" show that pulls the audience in on the adventure. (3 actors: 1male 2 male or female)

3. "Around the World With Phileas Fogg" – A mix of adventure and variety show, featuring the cast of La Legion Fantastique. (various)

4. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" – We are looking for 3 actors (male or female) to perform this show once a day on the Sugar Plum Playhouse Children's stage. We need actors who can project well, and don't mind frantic and comedic acting. We will be holding auditions for "20K" on SEPTEMBER 24!

To receive a character list, and/or to schedule an audition, please contact Peter Overstreet at: legionfantastique@gmail.com

VISIT:
http://mrphileasfogg.wordpress.com/
For more information.

Help us uphold the virtues of SCIENCE, EXPLORATION, and IMAGINATION!

Thank you.


Memorial Ugma For Ken E. Millkan
Greetings o'Beloved Friends & Followers of Ken E.,
On Sunday, September 28th, there will be the Memorial Ugma For Ken E. Millkan.
The Ugma to Invoke & Celebrate Ken's Life & Art will be held at Barn, Rancho Sugayan, in the hinterlands of El Sobrante & Martinez.

Guests are invited to come early, for greeting & gnoshings.
The Ugma Memorial will start around one o'clock, in the meadow behind the Barn.

The Grand SwillGuzzleBelch&Giggle will begin around three-ish.
This will be a Feast, supplied by the infamous chef & (as proclaimed by Ken) Inga-Hippie-Ghawdess-On-Earth, Sandy(short) Tremblay.
Pot-Luck Donations & BYOB will be most gratefully accepted.

Please bring any photographs, items, and recordings, to place on the Ugma Altar.

A redwood tree has been donated, to plant in Kenny's honor, with his ashes.
If anyone else cares to donate redwood or fruit trees, they will be gratefully accepted to create a grove and orchard.

For way too much  information of The Ugma, please go to the UgmaBlog
http://tubertalis.blogspot.com

Feel free to post your memories, pictures, and odes.


The Benicia Old Town Theatre Group Needs Men!
Hi all you talented people,

The Benicia Old Town Theatre Group is still looking for MEN to audition for "bottoms up!"- the Fall 2008 production opening Oct 17-Nov 8th.

The director is Michael Scahill and his assistant director is Rachel Obrestad. The descriptions are as follows:

EDDY, THE PORTER: 20s to 30s. Young, handsome, completely amoral, decidedly larcenous.
SMITH: 20s to 40s. A wannabe wiseguy with delusions of competence. Probably still lives in his mother’s basement.
TONY SCOPEC: 30s to 50s. Dreams of becoming the “Tony Soprano” of Cleveland.  Will probably find fulfillment as a licensed exterminator.
GEORGE RUSHMORE: 30s to late 50s.Shameless self promoter, always looking for the next score, perpetually broke, inept director of adult films looking for the big break.
KEITH: teens to early 20s. Perpetually stoned cameraman and probably the only sane person in the bunch..
PUMPHREY: 30 to 40. The quintessential nerd. Clueless, oblivious, nervous, judgmental, clumsy. .

If you can suggest someone available for rehearsals staring sept 2, please have him call Sarah Rozett - email:      srflute@hotmail.com


PEERS: Space 1889: The Adventure of Le Cirque de Venus
A Victorian Steampunk Ball in Space

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Masonic Lodge of San Mateo
Doors Open: 6:45p.m.
Dance Lesson: 7:00 p.m.
Dancing Begins: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by August 30)
At the door: $20.00

Rule, Britannia!
Britannia rule the stars!
Britain’s flag extends to Venus, Mercury and Mars!

Don't miss PEERS' third venture into the world of Victorian Steampunk: Space 1889 - a Victorian Ball in Space. Program your Babbage Analytical Engines, sail the luminiferous ether between the worlds to this Nineteenth Century science fiction ball, and keep Venus British!

The year is an alternate 1889 in which, thanks to inventor Thomas Alva Edison, computer engineer Thomas Babbage, software developer Ada, Countess of Lovelace, visionary scientists Herbert George Wells and Jules Verne, and many other distinguished men and women of science and engineering, the Victorians have air and space travel, high technology, computers (analytical engines), calculators (difference engines), efficient software (the versatile and elegant ADA), and even email (“electric messaging”). The Great Game has extended to Outer Space with Great Britain, Germany, Russia and those intrepid Americans rushing to colonize every planet in sight. Welcome to Space 1889. This is the milieu of our ball.

Join His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and His Excellency, the Governor of Her Majesty’s Crown Colony of Venus, for a formal ball to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of British rule on the planet. Diplomats, explorers, scientists and artists from Earth and from around the galaxy are cordially invited to attend.

Bangers & Mash, that most British of American dance bands, plays the greatest dance hits of the 1880’s, 1890’s, and early 1900's for an evening of vintage ballroom dancing. Dance beautiful waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, reels, The Lancers, and some of those dashing new American dances (the Ragtime Two-Step and the Tango from Argentina).  All “new” dances and pattern dances will be (briefly) taught or called, and partners are not required. For those of you wishing to brush up on the ballroom dances of the late 19th century, there will also be a pre-ball dance class at 7:00 pm.

Suggested costume is late Victorian or Edwardian evening dress, dress uniform (the year is technically 1889 but this IS an alternate universe so you can use your imagination), “Venusian” evening dress or science fiction/fantasy costume appropriate to the balls theme. As usual, however, costumes are admired, not required.  You scientists, engineers, and inventors are also most welcome to bring your latest gadgets and portable inventions (We’d love to see your Victorian laptops, cell phones and pagers, for instance!).

We are honoured to announce a special guest performance by the Queen of the Venusian Trapeze and star of the Cirque de Venus, Ariyana le Fey, and an appearance by our guests of honour, the celebrated Le Legion Fantastique.

The evening also features a no-host (cash) bar, a light snack buffet (your potluck contributions are, as always, very welcome), and an interactive performance by the Peerless Music Hall.


San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (SF BATS)
Date & Time: Saturday, October 4, 2008 10:00 AM
First Unitarian Universalist Centre
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA
More Info: www.dodivination.com

Lectures, exhibitions, and presentations on all aspects of Tarot – plus readings, fabulous door prizes, and the legendary Tarot Bazaar, featuring over a dozen vendors, including a wonderland of Tarot decks and books from Tarot Garden, purveyors of all good things Tarot.

Speakers to include:
Mary K. Greer, Wald & RuthAnn Amberstone, James Wanless, Julie Cuccia Watts, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, Arnell Ando, Pamela Eakins, Leisa ReFalo, Holly Voley and many more to be announced!

PLUS! The always remarkable blend of the renowned, the well-loved and the new, along with all the fun and excitement for which SF BATS is renowned.

For more information visit the wesbites www.dodivination.com or www.daughtersofdivination.com or email Thalassa at batqueen@dodivination.com

Strength & Honour - q o'a&d (thalassa)

visit www.dodivination.com!



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