First item of interest: Nikki Moddelmog and the Mischief Makers are hitting our stage this Saturday night, the 21st of June, from 8-10pm. It will be, and I quote directly from the Grand Mischief Maker herself, a “CD Release, Nikki’s Birthday, Mark’s Going Away (temporarily), Dennis’ 16th BikeAcrossKS and Shane’s Not Dead PARTY!” Probably not something you want to miss. Admission by donation, open to all ages, and BYOB (sadly not open to all ages, however).
Next up, an event we’re particularly excited about: Projecting Process, Fisch Haus’ first digital media exhibition, opens Final Friday, June 27, from 7-10pm. Presented in collaboration with Cinema 1 Film & FX and the Tallgrass Film Festival, Projecting Process is a multimedia exploration of the transformation from conception to finished product, highlighting elements of the creative flow unique to video art and experimental filmmaking. The interior/exterior installation will include crowd-driven interactive projections by Curt Rierson and Aaron Wirtz; the world premiere of Cinema 1’s newest music video, String Theory, starring Alexander Matthew Schneider and Amanda Blackmon; live music by Uche and the Crash and Lancelot Ponder, aka electronica artist Fox; and various process-to-product demonstrations and documentaries of several works in the exhibition. We’d like to thank James Burghart, at Conference Technologies Inc, for making the rental of a large exterior projector possible for us!
Lastly and most assuredly not leastly: our not-for-profit arm, Fisch Bowl Inc. is VERY proud to share the news that we recently were awarded a $10,000 matching funds grant from the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) to help us build an ADA-compliant restroom, the last link in the “welcome all our friends” chain. Being that it’s a matching funds grant, we’ll be kicking off a massive fundraising effort soon, so keep checking in via website, fb and/or twitter if you’d like to be a part of it! More details to come. And, this is as good a time as any to say thank you again, to everyone who donated to our ADA lift campaign; in fact, a (brave) test-pilot showed up at the Final Friday event last month and completed his trip smoothly and uneventfully, so we’re looking forward to many more successful journeys between street and front dock from now on. Please join us in getting the word out that the lift is up and running, and let us know if you’d like to avail yourself of it!