Know Theatre's LGBT Arts Festival Postponed Until October 2011

Know Theatre of Cincinnati announces the postponement of the LGBT Arts Festival. This festival was scheduled to coincide with the production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and occur during the last week in April into the first week in May.
Know Theatre's Managing Director, Eric Vosmeier says, "We are dedicated to the idea and the realization of the LGBT Arts Festival. However, this Festival was conceived over 18 months ago, when the Know Theatre was in a very different position and frankly had a staff that was larger by five." The Festival, which was originally scheduled for October of 2009, ran into delays because of the State of Ohio's delayed budgetary process and was forced into a postponement to spring of 2010.

Vosmeier says, "I've been looking at Know Theatre's available resources. While financial consideration is certainly one of the concerns, for me the most important thing is the preservation of our staff as a resource. We need to ensure the success of every single production we present. At this moment, that means that we'll have to postpone the LGBT Arts Festival to ensure that we're able to fully realize our production of Angels in America and the 7th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival."

Part of the LGBT Arts Festival was a visual art exhibit entitled Gasoline Rainbow curated by Matthew Dayler (Art Academy, Visual Fringe Mural Artist) and Kenneth Wright (CS13). Because this exhibit's programming is already in place, this exhibit will go forward as scheduled opening at CS13 (1219 Sycamore Street) on Final Friday, April 30, 2010 and running through May 15, 2010. This exhibit will feature the work of some prominent LGBT artists including: Jan Wandrag, Gio Black Peter, Matthew Stradling, Zachari Logan, Scooter LaForge, Scott Hug, James Huctwith, Jeremiah Degrandpre, David DeWitt, and Dayler himself.

Vosmeier says, "I've been nothing but impressed with the work that Matt and Kenneth have been able to pull together for this show. They have some great connections and have curated a visual art component that I look forward to matching with performance in the first full LGBT Arts Festival."
The LGBT Arts Festival will be postponed until October 2011, when it will be scheduled to coincide with National Coming Out Day, which falls on October 11th - as it was planned to originally. Vosmeier adds, "I want to see a Festival that truly speaks to the LGBT community. This community is large and diverse with dramatically different economic, racial, educational, and political backgrounds. I want time to explore options, to collect ideas from the community and to seek out performers, artists, filmmakers who speak to that diversity."

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