Dickens
Christmas Fair Missive
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2009 Dickens Christmas
Fair Welcome Email
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Hello everyone and welcome to the missives
for the
31st illustrious season of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair!
Grand Opening Friday November 27th
Saturdays and Sundays November 28th through December 20th
In the San Francisco Cow Palace Exhibition Halls
The holiday event for the perceptive, perspicacious reveler!
The favored festivities of the magnanimous multitudes!
The delightful destination of sagacious savants and frolicsome families!
As with previous years, I (Cat Taylor) will not only be
sending you these informative missives, but also directing
entertainment. That
version of me can be reached at cat@redbarnproductions.org.
Robert Young will once again be coordinating the theme characters,
"special performance" groups and generally overseeing the acting at
the fair, as well as portraying the illustrious Mr. Charles Dickens.
You can
reach him at robert@redbarnproductions.org
As I mentioned in a previous missive, the missives website at
http://www.cattaylor.com/missives.html
has been updated and now includes a link to our new email service,
where you
can subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your email address, all online.
The
missives site itself is set up to be easily accessible using your
iPhone or
similar mobile device.
Performer information is available on the Dickens Fair website at
http://dickensfair.com/performerinfo.htm,
please pass this link along to new folks who would like to know more.
(workshop
dates may still be in the process of being updated)
Workshops
will once again be held on November 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th from
10:00AM to
5:00PM at Sunset Ridge Elementary School in Pacifica, with the third
weekend of
workshops and rehearsals at the Cow Palace. More on this in the next
missive.
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| In This Missive |
| Thoughts from Kevin on Ten Years at The Cow
Palace |
| Dickens Marketing - what you can do today |
| Disney's "A Christmas Carol" |
| 2009 Dickens Fair Flyer Available Online! |
| More Marketing Thoughts? |
| Faire(e) Community on Facebook |
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| Thoughts from Kevin on Ten Years
at The Cow Palace
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My how time flies! Not only is it Dickens time
(already!), but it has been ten years since Kevin and Leslie 'brought
it
back'. Yes, ten years at the Cow Palace, this season.
Last year was the best attended Dickens Fair ever! The
economy kept people closer to home, and we added significant new
promotions
such as the free BART shuttle with big ads in the East Bay.
However,
its been great show for 10 years and word of mouth has been our
constant
friend. Now, with the shift away from radio and newspapers to
ipods and social
networking, it is really up to all of us to create a buzz.
Thank you in advance for all that you do to prepare for our
beloved annual Dickensian Delights! Everyone at Red Barn
Productions has
been working steadily on myriad details throughout the year. It is time
now to begin our ensemble effort. So dust off your topper, find
that
perfect new ribbon for your bonnet ...then post something fun on
YouTube and great
comments on every site you can find~!
Yelp anyone?
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| Dickens Marketing - what you can
do today...
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Let your friends and coworkers know:
Tickets on sale now at http://www.dickensfair.com
New Group Sales firm for Dickens! Check out their site
for LOTS of great shows:
http://www.gggrouptickets.com/
Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. about Dickens. This will
have an important ripple effect as eyeballs and ears switch from
newsprint and
radio...so please post "what fun" Dickens is for you - early and
often!
And join
the Dickens Fair Facebook site at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70573503536&ref=ts
for fun discussion, open to all Facebook members.
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Disney's "A Christmas Carol"
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Disney's "A Christmas Carol" (Robert Zemeckis)
hits theaters November 6th (perfect timing don't you think?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV7SwUmSuvc
Here's a very good interview piece with Zemeckis (and star
Jim Carey) on the new tech used for this film called "performance
capture" digital.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfMC3ApFVvs
(Carey plays Scrooge at 4 different ages and does all the
ghosts!)
We are working with the
Disney's local Animation company Image Movers, on local promotions,
group sales
and the like, but we have even more fun I store for you as a Dickens
participant on this one...so stay tuned.
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2009
Dickens Fair Flyer Available Online!
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The
2009 Dickens Fair flyer is available for download and printing for any
and all
events at which you'd like to advertise the Dickens Fair.
Go to
http://www.dickensfair.com/involved.htm
and click on "Download 2009 Dickens Flyers Here!" (it's in the lower
left-hand
corner)
It's also on the main page of the missives website
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| More Marketing Thoughts?
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Our Publicist, Adrienne Biggs, is happy to receive
emails if you have any questions or want to pass along any media
contacts: adrienne@biggspublicity.com
All other Marketing ideas and questions can be directed to kevin@redbarnproductions.org
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Faire(e)
Community on Facebook
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One last thing for today... We have a huge community and
keeping up with all the births, deaths, illnesses, weddings and
graduations is difficult. Rather than trying to include all of this
news in the
missive and since many of us are on Facebook, I created a group there
called
Fair(e) Community. You can find it here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=133805907528&ref=ts
You do need to be a Facebook member to visit group page, but
anyone can post, so news doesn't get lost if I'm not in the loop (which
happens
occasionally).
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For specific
questions
regarding performing at the Fair or to submit a show proposal 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
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