Camp Wanatachi Kicks OffJanuary 20, 2011 2:21 am
Camp Wanatachi starts on Friday, January 21st. We here at Her Blue Eyes would like to congratulate Bridget and all the cast and crew for launching this endeavor and wish them all the success in the world. If you’d like to add your best wishes, leave a comment!
Camp Wanatachi has a new fundraiser going and it’s got some great incentives, including a 15 minute Skype session with Bridget for a mere $250 pledge! They are holding the fundraiser until February 11th, so if you can manage it, help them out! The link to all the juicy details is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1631291613/camp-wanatachi-at-la-mama-etc
Also, if anyone does receive the Skype session with Bridget, please write up the details and let us know about it so we can share it with her adoring fellow fans!
Camp Wanatachi is encouraging people to send in friendship bracelets that they have made and the cast will wear them on stage. They will also send one of their own back to you. The information as well as where to send the bracelets can be found here: http://www.campwanatachi.com/post/2337933755/friendship-bracelet-exchange
Camp Wanatachi’s off Broadway dates at La MaMa ETC’s First Floor Theater (at 4A East 4th Street in NYC) have been announced. Ticket sales start tomorrow. Anyone who attends, feel free to send us a write up so we can publish it for those not fortunate enough to go themselves! The dates can be found here: http://www.campwanatachi.com/post/2077415784/performance-dates-announced
Natalie Weiss is going to be the artist in residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery in New York in preparation for Camp Wanatchi’s off-Broadway run. Art by Bridget and others will be featured. Anyone attending, please send us a write up of the event! It takes place on August 19th, 25th, September 1st and September 5th-6th for closing ceremonies. Various events are scheduled for each date. Anyone who goes, have fun! And if you send us a write-up, you will have our undying love and gratitude!
The complete list of events and all that will be going on can be found at Camp Wanatchi’s website: here.
Here’s another link to a Bridget Skype session write-up. Thanks to Sparty for bringing it to our attention! The write-up can be found here: http://community.livejournal.com/legendofseeker/767289.html#cutid1
We got a surprise in our e-mail today. Someone had sent us a little write-up they did about a Skype session with Bridget. They wrote it up especially for us, so here it is:
I also had a Skype session with Bridget but I hadn’t posted about it because…well…I have a terrible memory, and I don’t think it would be fair to her to recite word-for-word what we talked about. I’d inevitably get it wrong. Plus, I have a thing about respecting someone’s privacy; we didn’t talk about anything personal but still, it was a personal conversation.
That being said however, I don’t think it would be crossing the line to give a short recap. She was definitely very appreciative of and humbled by the support that CW has gotten. We talked a lot about CW and about financing Broadway shows in general. It’s something I knew very little about and it was an education having someone so close to it explain it to me. We talked about The Lovely Bones, NINE, Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans, Italy and Paris, and Is He Dead? Legend of the Seeker did come up, of course, and the fact that Kahlan will be missed. But I did emphasize how much I’m looking forward to seeing whatever she does next.
And finally, I’m sure you’ve all read the reports by the other Skypers about how much fun it was. It was all that and more, tons more. It was an absolute treat; now, even a week later, I still have this goofy grin on my face that everyone keeps asking me about. If she ever volunteers her time again, I would highly recommend it (the line will be forming right behind me!)
Her Blue Eyes would like to send a big thank you to Pat for sending this along to us!
Thank you, wolfi, for drawing our attention to this. For those of you who haven’t been reading the comments, wolfi pointed out this link to us at Her Blue Eyes. It is another recount of a Skype session with Bridget! It’s hard not to love her even more after reading all these recaps! Thanks again and anyone else who finds one of these that we haven’t posted yet, please feel free to draw our attention to it! Here’s the link: http://bitchslapfans.com/?p=1248
Well, yet another recipient of a Skype session with Bridget has posted about the experience and it’s a really good read. Particularly interesting is the story of how she got the Skype session in the first place! Bridget sounds like a wonderful woman again, of course, and this fan is obviously over the moon happy. Enjoy! The post can be found here: http://sandimist.livejournal.com/4140.html