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Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has given the public some clarity on his veto last week of $32 million in arts and culture grants from next year’s state budget. According to a story published in the Tampa Bay Times, DeSantis said the cause was Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, which he characterized as being overtly “sexual” and therefore an inappropriate recipient of state funds. While it’s unclear if the Orlando festival was slated to receive any money from the grants, the state of Florida awards money for cultural projects based on a ranked list. The Fringe Festival was ranked toward...

Billing itself as "ultimate minimalism," a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is charging theatre-goers to stare at an empty and silent stage for an hour. With no cast, no plot, no props and no script, the play has attracted wide media coverage in Britain but, alas, completes its emptiness by also attracting next to no audience. Appropriately called Sweet FA, the play's opening night attracted six journalists to the early morning performance at the 142-seat theatre inside Edinburgh's Crowne Plaza Hotel. On the second night, one journalist turned up but fell asleep in the lobby before the show began....

COME ALL YE flame-eaters, snake charmers, stilt-walkers, tall-bikers, unicyclists, jugglers dancers, poets, puppeteers, clowns, costumers, performing artists, video artists, sound artists, light artists, artists of any kind, gamers, dreamers, builders, theatricians, poster/zine/book makers, movers and shakers, bakers, alarmists, thinkers, logistic kings and queens, researchers, organizers, creators and activists: 2 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS: PROPAGANDIZING AGAINST PROPAGANDA How to be sensitive within the social/political landscape + be able to communicate dissenting ideas and gestures. And . . . discuss participation in “The Good American” + CIRKUS TENT events for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival August 30 - September 8. AT THE CIRKUS TENT...