BIG Thank you! and Complete Series Subscription Winner May 16, 2013

by Lindsay

First off, THANK YOU to the 89 donors who showed OtB the love today. From 3am all the way till midnight, you have joined together as a community to help support our programs and the artists we present. We cannot thank you enough for your generous giving today.

We have been giving away awesome prizes all day long to lucky GiveBIG donors. To cap off the end of a great day, our last prize drawing is a 13/14 Season Complete Series Subscription. Congrats to Terri! You are going to all 12 of our Inter/National and Northwest Series performances next season!

Thank you so much again to everyone who partipated in The Seattle Foundation's GiveBIG event - you have made a BIG difference in our community.

 

 

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Cheers to Nancy! May 15, 2013

by Lindsay

Thank you to everyone who has helped support OtB through GiveBIG so far today. We are truly grateful for your gifts!

We have hit the end of the work day, so what would be a better prize drawing than a Fubar pass for a free drink?! Thank you Nancy for your GiveBIG donation, and cheers to a free drink at all of our 13/14 season shows!

We have about 5 hours left until midnight, and would love your help. Please donate to OtB through GiveBIG tonight. Your support is critical to our success this season, and directly supports our programs and the artists we present.

At midnight, we will draw our last GiveBIG prize: a 13/14 Complete Series Subscription. The winner will see all 12 of our shows on the Inter/National and Northwest Series. Donate now to be entered for your chance to win!

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Congrats to Kai - winner of a Pick 6 Subscription! May 15, 2013

by Lindsay

Kai - you just won a Pick 6 for our 13/14 Season!! 

We have 2 more amazing prizes to give away to our GiveBIG donors. Do YOU want to win a Complete Series Subscription or free drinks for a year? Become a donor through GiveBIG!

You can give today until midnight through our profile on The Seattle Foundation website here: http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/OntheBoards.aspx

Every donation – no matter the size – made to OtB through The Seattle Foundation’s website today will grow even more from an $800,000 stretch pool by The Seattle Foundation and their sponsors. Plus, donors will be chosen at random throughout the day to have an additional $1,000 “Golden Ticket” given to the charity that received their donation. 

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GiveBIG Prize Drawing goes to Kathy! May 15, 2013

by Lindsay

Congrats to Kathy! She just won an OtB tshirt!

Do you want to win a prize? Each donation made to On the Boards through GiveBIG enters you for a chance to win, and drawings will be announced throughout today right here on the blog, our Facebook page and Twitter.

You can give a donoation to OtB today until midnight through our profile on The Seattle Foundation website here: http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/OntheBoards.aspx

Prizes include a year-long Fubar pass, 1 Pick-6 Subscription, and 1 Complete Series Subscription. Our drawings go all the way to midnight!

 

 

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We just gave away an OntheBoards.tv Streaming Subscription! May 15, 2013

by Lindsay

Congrats to Lauren! She just won our first GiveBIG prize drawing for the day: a 1-year streaming OntheBoards.tv Subscription!

Do you want to win 1 of the 4 remianing prizes? You can give a donoation to OtB today until midnight through our profile on The Seattle Foundation website here: http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/OntheBoards.aspx

Prizes include OtB t-shirts, a year-long Fubar pass, 1 Pick-6 Subscription, and 1 Complete Series Subscription. Our drawing begins at 10:30 am and goes all the way to midnight!

Every donation – no matter the size – made to OtB through The Seattle Foundation’s website today will grow even more from an $800,000 stretch pool by The Seattle Foundation and their sponsors. Plus, donors will be chosen at random throughout the day to have an additional $...

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Help support OtB today through GiveBIG! May 15, 2013

by Lindsay

 

Today is the third annual GiveBIG event. Please join OtB for this exciting city-wide day of giving, supporting hundreds of nonprofits, including OtB. Your gift helps support our programs, the artists we present, and helps keep ticket prices low.

You can give today until midnight through our profile on The Seattle Foundation website here: http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/OntheBoards.aspx

 Every donation – no matter the size – made to OtB through The Seattle Foundation’s website today will grow even more from an $800,000 stretch pool by The Seattle Foundation and their sponsors. Plus, donors will be chosen at random throughout the day to have an additional $1,000 “Golden Ticket” given to the charity that received their donation. 

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Saint Genet and Artaud's Theater of Cruelty May 14, 2013

by Heidi

I think with a group like Saint Genet, it’s going to be important to have some critically founded ways to consider them and tools with which to distance ourselves or . . . complicate the reactions we have--kind of like a softening of an impact—for which there is a definite potential when viewing a sensational and visceral group such as Saint Genet. Maybe analysis thwarts the guttural reactions they intend an audience to have, but I think the greatest compliment to an artist is to be able to look at a work and attempt to understand it intellectually as well as intuitively.  So this is my hope:  that this essay begins to examine the roots and intentions of Saint Genet, and also reflects on some reasons why this work might be important and actually very beautiful, exposing us (the audience) to controversial but provocative aesthetics.

There are many interesting entry points into Saint Genet (Theater of the Absurd, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, etc.) but for...

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Saint Genet's Nearly Nearly Invisible May 14, 2013

by Jessica

In addition to Paradisiacal Rites this weekend at OtB, Saint Genet is taking over the NORD Alley in Pioneer Square with their singular vision and aesthetic. Thu-Sun at 1pm you can catch a series of visual art, performance and music-based installations for free. Learn more about it at saintgenet.org!


[Paradisiacal Rites photo by Dan Hawkins]


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