If anything can take the sting out of waning Summer’s shortening days and cooling nights, it’s The Fringe. The last week of August always provides a cornucopia of theatre events, all over Victoria, and this year is no different – or, very different if your idea of theatre is playing in Nora’s Doll House, or a late summer’s evening with Uncle Vanya.
No ills to Ibsen or Anton Chekov, but if you’re gonna Fringe, better get ready to tread wider the boards of the living stage.
Heather Lindsay is Executive Director of Intrepid Theatre, Victoria’s own bold theatre company, and primary presenter of the Fringe from day one. She’s a multiple Leo Award-winning filmmaker and theatre vet, who joined Intrepid in 2012.
Heather Lindsay in the first half.
And; while promising Americans to make its “allies” spend as much on armies and munitions as they themselves do, in his first televised speech before the nation this year, president Trump also lauded the especially heroic cast of the soldiery gathered in his background, and the U-S-A’s “better than anybody’s” conventional and nuclear war-making capabilities. Then he confirmed more war for Afghanistan, that benighted graveyard of presidential promises.
Trump campaigned to end that war, nearly as old now as the century itself, knowing the American people had tired of the Long War. And, that weariness is not confined to the Homeland. In Germany, outside just one of the hundreds of US bases of all sorts, all around the World, near the town of Büchel, a peace camp has shared the summers with the jets screaming overhead, making a protest against them, (and the American nuclear bombs beneath the ground, just beyond the base’s fence).
John LaForge is a long-time staffer at Nukewatch, the Wisconsin-based nuclear watchdog and environmental justice group, whose countless articles on the topic have appeared in Nukewatch’s quarterly and at online sites like: New Internationalist, Z Magazine, The Progressive, Earth Island Journal and at CounterPunch.org. He’s also co-editor, with Arianne S. Peterson, of the revised edition of the book, ‘Nuclear Heartland: A Guide to the 450 Land-Based Missiles of the the United States.’ His latest article at CounterPunch.org, ‘Peace Camp and War Games at Harvest Time‘ tells the story of Büchel.
John LaForge and “Büchel is Everywhere,” in the second half.
And; Victoria gardening guru and green entrepreneur, Christina Nikolic will join us at the bottom of the hour with Left Coast Events highlights for the coming week. But first, Heather Lindsay and setting the table for a veritable Fringe feast!
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