{"id":4131,"date":"2014-07-02T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2014-07-17T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:32:05","slug":"ufv-theatre-department-heads-to-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/07\/02\/ufv-theatre-department-heads-to-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Theatre department heads to Harrison &#8212; July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Harrison Festival of the Arts has been part of the Fraser Valley\u2019s cultural landscape for thirty-six years, and the University of the Fraser Valley has been involved from the beginning. The popular annual summer festival is back this year from July 12 to 20, and UFV is contributing several productions from its highly successful Directors\u2019 Theatre Festival.<br \/>\nDirectors\u2019 Festival Curator Ian Fenwick has announced that three one-act plays from UFV\u2019s 2014 DFEST directed by and showcasing UFV Theatre students will be featured on the Harrison Memorial Hall stage, Tuesday, July 15 at 8:30 pm. \u201cEach one of the selected shows was a standout at DFEST; seeing them together on the Harrison stage as part of the Festival of the Arts will be a special summer treat for theatre-goers and a great experience for our students.\u201d<br \/>\nThe UFV DFEST shows appearing at Harrison are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr Bigg and Tall, written by UFV Theatre students Tim Howe and Stephen Wilhite, and directed by Tim Howe.<br \/>\nA run down burlesque house in its prime! Don\u2019t know what that looks like? Not a problem! Just throw a few idiots on stage with a gaggle of really attractive women for about an hour, charge admission, and you&#8217;ve basically got the idea.<\/li>\n<li>Time Flies, by David Ives, directed by Amanda Thiessen<br \/>\nThey are born, they meet, they mate, they die. This is the average life of the average mayfly, but May and Horace are anything but ordinary&#8230; or so they think.<\/li>\n<li>A New York Minute, by Michael Palermo, directed by Beth Gasser<br \/>\nMelissa\u2019s best friend Harry recently became a ghost. The two try to sort out what this means for their friendship and discover a whole new way of living.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is considered an honour for our Directors\u2019 Festival participants to be asked to Harrision,\u201d notes UFV Theatre department head Bruce Kirkley. \u201cOnly a few of the shows get the call to go on the road and be associated with the Harrison Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For tickets contact the Harrison Festival of the Arts:<br \/>\nOnline: harrisonfestival.com<br \/>\nBy phone: 604 796 3664<br \/>\nIn person: 98 Rockwell Drive, Harrison Host Springs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Nipuni Sedara at <a href=\"mailto:nipuni.sedara@ufv.ca\">nipuni.sedara@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff\">07\/16\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harrison Festival of the Arts has been part of the Fraser Valley\u2019s cultural landscape for thirty-six years, and the University of the Fraser Valley has been involved from the beginning. The popular annual summer festival is back this year from July 12 to 20, and UFV is contributing several productions from its highly successful &#8230; <a title=\"UFV Theatre department heads to Harrison &#8212; July 15\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/07\/02\/ufv-theatre-department-heads-to-harrison\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}