great salt lake fringe

Episode 112 The Great Salt Lake Fringe

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Once upon a time in a land far, far away a performing arts festival started in Edinburgh, Scotland called the Fringe Festival. Established in 1947, it has grown over 71 years and expanded world-wide with over 200 festivals! You might be asking yourself why you need this history?

This week we had the Nina Vought, founder of Utah’s very own Fringe Festival, join us! It might not be 71 years old, but in it’s short 4 years it has grown from a few shows over a weekend, to 250 over 10 days!

Nina Vought is so much more than just the founder of The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. Nina is also a theatre professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. With a dream of being an academic gypsy, her roots have now been planted pretty deep in Utah with her husband, who team teaches with her at the college! Nina got real with us and let us know how much heart and soul and countless hours are put into even just a simple 15 minute performance at the Fringe Festival. This is a place for performances to be work-shopped and quite possibly improved at a future festival. Nina said, “the fringe festival does for theater what Sundance does for independent film.” She explained to us that it takes a village to put on this festival, and one of the coolest bits of information about the GSLFF is that all ticket sales go BACK to the performers and that is clearly stated in the 2 rules of the Fringe Festival, which all must abide!

1. It is non-curated. Based on a first come first serve for applications.

2. All ticket sales go to the performers.

The festival goes from August 2-12th with dance and theatre performances at the Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City. Ticket prices starting at $10 or you can buy a performance pack! *which we definitely suggest.* It is said that the Fringe Festival is like Disneyland for theater lovers! We can’t argue with that.

You can learn more about the Great Salt Lake Fringe HERE. You can follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for updates. We will do a follow up show with Nina and her husband about yoga, the vegan classes they teach, and living a green life in Salt Lake City!


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Ep. 9 The Creepy Toxic Algae’s in the farm… or is it?

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Episode 9 is upon you like the algae in Utah Lake!

Our kickstarter for this week is a local board game, Armored Core™ RTS – A Real Time Strategy Board Game by Bad Crow games. We were excited when we pulled it up but the opinions took a quick turn…

Some great Utah events in line for you this week! Including the Halloween in July party on Thursday 28th as well as Eve 6 on Friday the 29th, and both are at Metro Bar.

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Utah is also hosting the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival! Modeled after the massive festival that takes place in Edinburgh every year, there will be plenty of performance artists, musicians, magicians, and theatre performances worth seeing. Some highlights include; aerialists, an all female Othello modeled after Mad Max, and even Fed Up Fairy Tales, a modern take on fairy tales. It is also awesome that 100% of ticket sales go BACK to the performers!!

The Kings English book store  will be on hand to sell and host (?) an event on the 28th (apologies the event location is wrong in the podcast). Meet and listen to author and survivor, Rhonda Stapley. She was one of Ted Bundy’s victims and has written a book called, “The Attack, Escape, and PTSD that changed my Life.” The event is free and the official location is: at the West Jordan Library and Events Center: Viridian Events Center 8030 S. 1825 W. West Jordan, UT 84088.

August 1st is the start of the Tour of Utah, which is essentially Utah’s version of Tour De France. The cyclists will start in Southern Utah and work their way up over a course of 7 days to Park City. We aren’t really sure what Josh is talking about… do you?

This week we had a lot to cover in News. Utah Lake was taken over by a toxic algae and the effects stretched farther than just Utah County and had local farmers, including Peterson Farms, up in arms because their crops are their lively-hood. Check out a video by the Salt Lake Tribune showing it creeping into a harbour at Utah Lake by clicking HERE.

Sen. Jim Debakis is putting down his foot and *fingers crossed* getting ready for a fight to change and privatize the Utah liqour laws. We’re here to cheer you on sir!

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Real Salt Lake Re-instates Gordon Monson, the Gay Games could make their home in Salt Lake in 2022, and the fight continues for the Bears Ears Monument.

We also learned a little about the inventor of the television, Philo T. Farnsworth, who is local to Utah. Not only did he invent the television from just an idea of lines in the dirt from beets, but he also worked on night vision and tried to solve the puzzle of cold fusion before his death.

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