#Minnesota Web Fest

[jeffstormer]

Are you a fiction podcaster? An Actual Play podcaster or video performer?

We want YOU to submit your work to Minnesota Web Fest! Late Deadline submissions are still open until 5/31.

Since I first attended NJ Web Fest in 2021, I've seen how desperately needed this kind of space for recognition, celebration, and collaboration is for AP producers and fiction podcasters, particularly on the indie level. We simply don't have the kind of opportunities to celebrate one another and build a real sense of community. And that's exactly what we're trying to build at MNWF.

Help us grow this opportunity to celebrate and recognize the work we do making this arform special.

[224bbaker]

We are so delighted over at Fawx & Stallion HQ to have been named official selections at four lovely web festivals over the last few weeks! Huge thanks to Apulia Web Fest, Minnesota WebFest, New Jersey Web Festival, and New Zealand Web Fest! We are in fantastic company, so go check out the other fiction selections!!

[brookston]

Holidays 9.22

Holidays

American Business Women’s Day

Arbor Day (Barbados)

Band-Aid Day

Canterbury South Day (New Zealand)

Car-Free Day (Europe; Montreal, Canada)

Chainmail Day

Childhood Dementia Day

Chong Chao (Macau)

Crash of Oceanic Flight 815 Anniversary Day (from “Lost”)

Day of Bilbo

Day of Frodo

Day of Partisan Glory (Ukraine)

Day of the Baltic Unity

Dear Diary Day

Elephant Appreciation Day

Emancipation Day (Ohio)

Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Festival of Disappearances

Flag Day (Norway)

Flaunt Your Favorite Beach Towel Day

Grape Day (French Republic)

Hobbit Day

Hug a Vegetarian Day

International Athletic Training and Therapy Day

International Day of Mimes

International Day of Radiant Peace

International Organic Day

Jeans for Genes Day (UK)

Technical Engineer’s Day (Ukraine)

National Centenarian's Day

National Dante Day

National Day (Saudi Arabia)

National Elephant Appreciation Day

National Girls’ Night In Day

National Invasive Aedes Awareness Day

National Khalid Day

National Laundry Workers Day

National Legwear Day

National Online Recovery Day

National Rock ’n’ Roll Dog Day

National States & Capitals Day

National Temperature Control Day

National Walk ’N Roll Dog Day

One Web Day [ website ]

Proposal Day

Remote Employee Appreciation Day

Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

Rudaki Day (Tajikistan)

Supergirl Day

Teacher’s Day (Uruguay)

Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day; Bhutan)

Treaty of Basel Day (Switzerland)

Trumpet Day (Mormons)

U.N.C.L.E. Day

World Car-Free Day 

World Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML( Day

World Energy Storage Day

World Narcolepsy Day

World Rhino Day

World Rose Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Ice Cream Cone Day

International Mixed Berries Muffin Day

National Brown Butter Day

National Drink Local Day

National Eat Local Day

National White Chocolate Day

Independence & Related Days

BBK Empire (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Brunei (from UK, 1984)

Bulgaria (from Ottoman Empire, 1908)

Dale Republic (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Mali (from France, 1960)

Rukora (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Switzerland (Becomes independent state, 1499)

4th Sunday in September

Daughter’s Day [4th Sunday]

Gemera (Southward Equinox; Aretéanism) [4th Sunday] (Earth)

International Daughter’s Day [4th Sunday]

National Good Neighbor Day [4th Sunday] (Original Date)

National Police Memorial Day (UK) [4th Sunday]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Soothing Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Spud Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

World Rivers Day [4th Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 22 (4th Full Week of September)

Banned Books Week (thru 9.28) [Last Week]

International Deaf Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

International Interpreters and Translators Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Deaf Dog Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Dog Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Employ Older Workers Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Keep Kids Creative Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Wild Rice Week (thru 9.28) [4th Week]

Remember to Register to Vote Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Sea Otter Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Tolkien Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

World Reflexology Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Festivals Beginning September 22, 2024

Beer City Festival (Alameda, California)

Country Harvest Fair (Holliston, Massachusetts)

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 9.25]

Philadelphia National Candy, Gift & Gourmet Show (Kalahari Resort, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.25]

San Diego Restaurant Week (San Diego, California) [thru 9.29]

Subotica International Festival of Children’s Theatres (Subotica, Serbia) [thru 9.27]

Twin Cities Veg Fest (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Whiskies of the World (San Jose, California)

Feast Days

Alma Thomas (Artology)

Believe the Impossible Day (Pastafarian)

Bodo (Christian; Saint)

Boidromia (Honoring Apollon, god of rescue during war; Ancient Greece)

The Bottle (Muppetism)

Breakfast, Snack, Elevenses, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Tea, Snack, Dinner, Snack, More Snacks, and Bilgewack Day (Borms; Shamanism)

Brother Dave Gardner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Candidus (Christian; Saint)

Charles Keeping (Artology)

Charles Waterhouse (Artology)

Coya Raymi (Incan Moon Goddess Quilla)

Digna and Emerita (Christian; Saint)

Drink Your Intention Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Elizabeth Bear (Writerism)

Elizabeth Simcoe (Artology)

Emmeram of Regensburg (Christian; Saint)

Esphyr Slobodkina (Artology)

Fay Weldon (Writerism)

Feast of Mikeli (Harvest Celebration; Ancient Latvia)

Felix and Constantia (Christian; Saint)

First Day of Fall [Autumnal Equinox, Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. …

Alban Elfed (Celtic Winter Finding)

Autumnal Equinox (a.k.a. Mabon, Alban Elfed; Celtic, Pagan) [6 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]

Autumn Stroll Day

Fall Astronomy Day

Feast of Carpo (Celtic Goddess of Autumn)

Festival of Ragutiene and Ragutis (Slavic Goddess & God of Beer) 

Festival of the Sea Goddess (Eskimo)

French Republican New Year (France)

Higan (Japan)

Kukulcan Snake God Celebration (Ancient Mayan)

Mabon begins (Northern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Miķeļi Festival begins (Latvia; The Week of Iron)

National Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Oenach Carman (Ancient Celtic)

Ostara begins (Southern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Proposal Day

Sendai Great Tug-of-War (Japan)

Shubun no Hi (Japan)

Spring Day (Argentina)

Svarog’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan Mead Drinking Festival to God of Fire & Sky)

Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti; Christian; Saint)

Joseph Duplessis (Artology)

Laud of Coutances (Christian; Saint)

Lillian Chestney (Artology)

Mabon (Pagan)

Maurice (Western Christianity)

Maurice and His Companions of the Theban Legion (Christian; Martyrs)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Artology)

Paul Chong Hasang (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Persephone’s Descent Into the Underworld (Everyday Wicca)

Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope; Christian; Saint)

Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (Christian; Saint)

Sadalberga (Christian; Saint)

Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux (Christian; Saint)

Septimius of Iesi (Christian; Saint)

Shabbat Shuva begins (Sabbath of Return; Judaism) [7 Tishri]

Theban Legion (Christian; Saint)

Thomas of Villanova (Christian; Saint)

Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)

Ritual of the Netjers and the Two Lands (Ancient Egypt)

Schiller (Positivist; Saint)

West Ireland Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Will Elder (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1936)

The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (Animated TV Series; 2010)

The Band, by The Band (Album; 1969)

Baywatch (TV Series; 1989)

The Beautiful People, by Marilyn Manson (Song; 1996)

Black Rain (Film; 1989)

Camp Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Novel; 1967)

The Crusader in Egypt, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1825)

Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1869) [Ring of the Nibelung #1]

Davy Crockett at the Alamo (Disney TV Film; 1963)

Dizzy Up the Girl, by The Goo Goo Dolls (Album; 1998)

Empire Records (Film; 1995)

Erik the Viking (Film; 1989)

Family Matters (TV Series; 1989)

Family Ties (TV Series; 1982)

The Fantasticks (Film; 2000)

Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Musical; 1964)

First Aiders (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Friends (TV Series; 1994)

Full House (TV Series; 1987)

Goofy’s Freeway Troubles (Disney Cartoon; 1965)

Gotham (TV Series; 2014)

The Jet Cage (WB LT Cartoon; 1962)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Film; 2017)

The Lego Ninjago Movie (Film; 2017)

Lost (TV Series; 2004)

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, by Bernard Waber (Children’s Book; 1965)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series; 1964)

Maverick (TV Series; 1957)

My Friends Tigger & Pooh (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Officer Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

One National Under a Groove, by Funkadelic (Album; 1976)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1977)

Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Lyrical Drama; 1820)

Queens of the Stone Age, by the Queens of a Stone Age (Album; 1998)

Se7en (Film; 1995)

Showgirls (Film; 1995)

Sports Night (TV Series; 1998)

Star Wars: Visions (Animated TV Series; 2021)

Thomas the Obscure, by Maurice Blanchot (Novel; 1941)

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, by Krzysztof Penderecki (Orchestral Piece; 1961)

Tweety’s S.O.S. (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Two and a Half Men (TV Series; 2003)

Veronica Mars (TV Series; 2004)

Woman on Top (Film; 2000)

The West Wing (TV Series; 1999)

You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe (Novel; 1940) [published posthumously]

Today’s Name Days

Emmeram, Mauritius, Moritz (Austria)

Emerita, Katarina, Mauricije, Toma od Villanove (Croatia)

Darina (Czech Republic)

Mauritius (Denmark)

Marvo, Maur, Mauri, Maurits (Estonia)

Mauri (Finland)

Maurice (France)

Emmeram, Gundula, Mauritius, Moritz (Germany)

Fokas, Loizos, Louise, Phokas, Zografia (Greece)

Móric (Hungary)

Maria, Maurizio (Italy)

Maigurs, Māris, Marisa, Mariss, Morics (Latvia)

Tarvinas, Tomas, Virmantė (Lithuania)

Kåre, Kyrre (Norway)

Joachim, Joachima, Maurycy, Prosimir, Tomasz (Poland)

Móric (Slovakia)

Mauricio (Spain)

Maurits, Moritz (Sweden)

Druce, Drucilla, Maurice, Mauricio, Maury, Merrick, Morell, Morris, Morrison, Murray (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 266 of 2024; 100 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 20 (Ji-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 19 Elul 5784

Islamic: 18 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 26 Gold; Fryday [26 of 30]

Julian: 9 September 2024

Moon: 72%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Corneille]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 1 of 90)

Week: 4th Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 32 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Autumn (a.k.a. Fall) [Season 4 of 4]

Gyfu (Gift) [Half-Month 19 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.9)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.22

Holidays

American Business Women’s Day

Arbor Day (Barbados)

Band-Aid Day

Canterbury South Day (New Zealand)

Car-Free Day (Europe; Montreal, Canada)

Chainmail Day

Childhood Dementia Day

Chong Chao (Macau)

Crash of Oceanic Flight 815 Anniversary Day (from “Lost”)

Day of Bilbo

Day of Frodo

Day of Partisan Glory (Ukraine)

Day of the Baltic Unity

Dear Diary Day

Elephant Appreciation Day

Emancipation Day (Ohio)

Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Festival of Disappearances

Flag Day (Norway)

Flaunt Your Favorite Beach Towel Day

Grape Day (French Republic)

Hobbit Day

Hug a Vegetarian Day

International Athletic Training and Therapy Day

International Day of Mimes

International Day of Radiant Peace

International Organic Day

Jeans for Genes Day (UK)

Technical Engineer’s Day (Ukraine)

National Centenarian's Day

National Dante Day

National Day (Saudi Arabia)

National Elephant Appreciation Day

National Girls’ Night In Day

National Invasive Aedes Awareness Day

National Khalid Day

National Laundry Workers Day

National Legwear Day

National Online Recovery Day

National Rock ’n’ Roll Dog Day

National States & Capitals Day

National Temperature Control Day

National Walk ’N Roll Dog Day

One Web Day [ website ]

Proposal Day

Remote Employee Appreciation Day

Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

Rudaki Day (Tajikistan)

Supergirl Day

Teacher’s Day (Uruguay)

Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day; Bhutan)

Treaty of Basel Day (Switzerland)

Trumpet Day (Mormons)

U.N.C.L.E. Day

World Car-Free Day 

World Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML( Day

World Energy Storage Day

World Narcolepsy Day

World Rhino Day

World Rose Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Ice Cream Cone Day

International Mixed Berries Muffin Day

National Brown Butter Day

National Drink Local Day

National Eat Local Day

National White Chocolate Day

Independence & Related Days

BBK Empire (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Brunei (from UK, 1984)

Bulgaria (from Ottoman Empire, 1908)

Dale Republic (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Mali (from France, 1960)

Rukora (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Switzerland (Becomes independent state, 1499)

4th Sunday in September

Daughter’s Day [4th Sunday]

Gemera (Southward Equinox; Aretéanism) [4th Sunday] (Earth)

International Daughter’s Day [4th Sunday]

National Good Neighbor Day [4th Sunday] (Original Date)

National Police Memorial Day (UK) [4th Sunday]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Soothing Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Spud Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

World Rivers Day [4th Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 22 (4th Full Week of September)

Banned Books Week (thru 9.28) [Last Week]

International Deaf Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

International Interpreters and Translators Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Deaf Dog Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Dog Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Employ Older Workers Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Keep Kids Creative Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

National Wild Rice Week (thru 9.28) [4th Week]

Remember to Register to Vote Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Sea Otter Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Tolkien Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

World Reflexology Week (thru 9.28) [Last Full Week]

Festivals Beginning September 22, 2024

Beer City Festival (Alameda, California)

Country Harvest Fair (Holliston, Massachusetts)

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 9.25]

Philadelphia National Candy, Gift & Gourmet Show (Kalahari Resort, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.25]

San Diego Restaurant Week (San Diego, California) [thru 9.29]

Subotica International Festival of Children’s Theatres (Subotica, Serbia) [thru 9.27]

Twin Cities Veg Fest (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Whiskies of the World (San Jose, California)

Feast Days

Alma Thomas (Artology)

Believe the Impossible Day (Pastafarian)

Bodo (Christian; Saint)

Boidromia (Honoring Apollon, god of rescue during war; Ancient Greece)

The Bottle (Muppetism)

Breakfast, Snack, Elevenses, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Tea, Snack, Dinner, Snack, More Snacks, and Bilgewack Day (Borms; Shamanism)

Brother Dave Gardner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Candidus (Christian; Saint)

Charles Keeping (Artology)

Charles Waterhouse (Artology)

Coya Raymi (Incan Moon Goddess Quilla)

Digna and Emerita (Christian; Saint)

Drink Your Intention Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Elizabeth Bear (Writerism)

Elizabeth Simcoe (Artology)

Emmeram of Regensburg (Christian; Saint)

Esphyr Slobodkina (Artology)

Fay Weldon (Writerism)

Feast of Mikeli (Harvest Celebration; Ancient Latvia)

Felix and Constantia (Christian; Saint)

First Day of Fall [Autumnal Equinox, Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. …

Alban Elfed (Celtic Winter Finding)

Autumnal Equinox (a.k.a. Mabon, Alban Elfed; Celtic, Pagan) [6 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]

Autumn Stroll Day

Fall Astronomy Day

Feast of Carpo (Celtic Goddess of Autumn)

Festival of Ragutiene and Ragutis (Slavic Goddess & God of Beer) 

Festival of the Sea Goddess (Eskimo)

French Republican New Year (France)

Higan (Japan)

Kukulcan Snake God Celebration (Ancient Mayan)

Mabon begins (Northern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Miķeļi Festival begins (Latvia; The Week of Iron)

National Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Oenach Carman (Ancient Celtic)

Ostara begins (Southern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Proposal Day

Sendai Great Tug-of-War (Japan)

Shubun no Hi (Japan)

Spring Day (Argentina)

Svarog’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan Mead Drinking Festival to God of Fire & Sky)

Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti; Christian; Saint)

Joseph Duplessis (Artology)

Laud of Coutances (Christian; Saint)

Lillian Chestney (Artology)

Mabon (Pagan)

Maurice (Western Christianity)

Maurice and His Companions of the Theban Legion (Christian; Martyrs)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Artology)

Paul Chong Hasang (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Persephone’s Descent Into the Underworld (Everyday Wicca)

Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope; Christian; Saint)

Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (Christian; Saint)

Sadalberga (Christian; Saint)

Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux (Christian; Saint)

Septimius of Iesi (Christian; Saint)

Shabbat Shuva begins (Sabbath of Return; Judaism) [7 Tishri]

Theban Legion (Christian; Saint)

Thomas of Villanova (Christian; Saint)

Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)

Ritual of the Netjers and the Two Lands (Ancient Egypt)

Schiller (Positivist; Saint)

West Ireland Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Will Elder (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1936)

The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (Animated TV Series; 2010)

The Band, by The Band (Album; 1969)

Baywatch (TV Series; 1989)

The Beautiful People, by Marilyn Manson (Song; 1996)

Black Rain (Film; 1989)

Camp Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Novel; 1967)

The Crusader in Egypt, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1825)

Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1869) [Ring of the Nibelung #1]

Davy Crockett at the Alamo (Disney TV Film; 1963)

Dizzy Up the Girl, by The Goo Goo Dolls (Album; 1998)

Empire Records (Film; 1995)

Erik the Viking (Film; 1989)

Family Matters (TV Series; 1989)

Family Ties (TV Series; 1982)

The Fantasticks (Film; 2000)

Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Musical; 1964)

First Aiders (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Friends (TV Series; 1994)

Full House (TV Series; 1987)

Goofy’s Freeway Troubles (Disney Cartoon; 1965)

Gotham (TV Series; 2014)

The Jet Cage (WB LT Cartoon; 1962)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Film; 2017)

The Lego Ninjago Movie (Film; 2017)

Lost (TV Series; 2004)

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, by Bernard Waber (Children’s Book; 1965)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series; 1964)

Maverick (TV Series; 1957)

My Friends Tigger & Pooh (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Officer Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

One National Under a Groove, by Funkadelic (Album; 1976)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1977)

Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Lyrical Drama; 1820)

Queens of the Stone Age, by the Queens of a Stone Age (Album; 1998)

Se7en (Film; 1995)

Showgirls (Film; 1995)

Sports Night (TV Series; 1998)

Star Wars: Visions (Animated TV Series; 2021)

Thomas the Obscure, by Maurice Blanchot (Novel; 1941)

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, by Krzysztof Penderecki (Orchestral Piece; 1961)

Tweety’s S.O.S. (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Two and a Half Men (TV Series; 2003)

Veronica Mars (TV Series; 2004)

Woman on Top (Film; 2000)

The West Wing (TV Series; 1999)

You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe (Novel; 1940) [published posthumously]

Today’s Name Days

Emmeram, Mauritius, Moritz (Austria)

Emerita, Katarina, Mauricije, Toma od Villanove (Croatia)

Darina (Czech Republic)

Mauritius (Denmark)

Marvo, Maur, Mauri, Maurits (Estonia)

Mauri (Finland)

Maurice (France)

Emmeram, Gundula, Mauritius, Moritz (Germany)

Fokas, Loizos, Louise, Phokas, Zografia (Greece)

Móric (Hungary)

Maria, Maurizio (Italy)

Maigurs, Māris, Marisa, Mariss, Morics (Latvia)

Tarvinas, Tomas, Virmantė (Lithuania)

Kåre, Kyrre (Norway)

Joachim, Joachima, Maurycy, Prosimir, Tomasz (Poland)

Móric (Slovakia)

Mauricio (Spain)

Maurits, Moritz (Sweden)

Druce, Drucilla, Maurice, Mauricio, Maury, Merrick, Morell, Morris, Morrison, Murray (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 266 of 2024; 100 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 20 (Ji-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 19 Elul 5784

Islamic: 18 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 26 Gold; Fryday [26 of 30]

Julian: 9 September 2024

Moon: 72%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Corneille]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 1 of 90)

Week: 4th Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 32 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Autumn (a.k.a. Fall) [Season 4 of 4]

Gyfu (Gift) [Half-Month 19 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.9)

[erikurtz]

SILVER & GOLD: LOVE IS PRICELESS. EVERYTHING ELSE IS NEGOTIABLE.

Continuing to tell powerful stories of the Black American experience in meaningful and entertaining fashion, actor/writer/producer/director Alonge Hawes focuses his eye on a world that’s as serious as hip-hop (Blue Collar Hustle) and retail entrepreneurship (Black On Both Sides) but... http://snobbyrobot.com/2022/10/19/silver-gold-love-is-priceless-everything-else-is-negotiable/

[literaryinspiredwebserieslove]

LIW Recommendation: Rational Creatures

Do you miss the days of classic literary-inspired webseries? Do you spend half of your life longing for a new adaptation of Persuasion? Do you wish that you could watch something fun with a short episodes and a lot of LGBTQ+ representation? If any of that sounds like you, you should be watching Rational Creatures, the new webseries based on, you guessed it, Persuasion.

Some more reasons to watch:

1) The creators are behind other shows you know and love, including Away From It All, Merry Maidens, Nottingham, Twincidents, and more, and they’re brought all their experience making LIWs to this new project.

2) The episodes are super short, so it’s not a big commitment. Instead, it’s a pleasant few minutes to look forward to each week.

3) CHEESE PARTY?!

4) There are interracial wives with gay sprinkles. Need I say more?

5) This show is just filled with the most relatable content. “Break from my eight-year break.” “WHO IS FRED WENTWORTH?” Siblings giving each other a hard time for calling super late because TIME ZONES. Dare I say iconic?

6) Episode three is dropping on Tuesday, and there’s going to be a FLASHBACK TO 2011.

7) Did I mention that this is a Persuasion adaptation in which Anne Elliot is now Ana Elías and Captain Wentworth is now a bisexual travel writer? Seriously, what are you waiting for?

8) And finally, Rational Creatures is now an AWARD-WINNING webseries (Best of Minnesota at the Minnesota Web Fest)! Do you really need more incentives? Go watch it now! 

You can watch the first two episodes on YouTube here. Follow the creators here on Tumblr @rationalseries plus on Twitter, and give them all the support so that they can make season two and finish the story! 

[rationalseries]

Not too shabby! We’re happy and honored to be nominated in these categories for the upcoming Minnesota Web Fest!

[tomkiesche]

Coming to TCFF (Twin Cities Film Festival) on October 27th. 

We have already sold out for our World Premiere this Thursday in Hollywood. Here is the web address for the film at TCFF...

 Tickets are only $12.00 https://twincitiesfilmfest.org/film-fest-movie/killher Maybe we'll see you there. Filmmakers are attending. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjnoJrtL8Ry/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This day in history

#20yrsago Me reading from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom https://craphound.com/audio/Doctorow%20-%20Down%20and%20Out%20in%20the%20Magic%20Kingdom%20-%20Chapter%206%20-%20SXSW%202002.mp3

#15yrsago RIAA explains why they’re suing your children https://web.archive.org/web/20070319210522/https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/03/15/sherman

#15yrsago David Byrne: Who needs music labels? https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-byrne-dc/rocker-david-byrne-making-sense-at-sxsw-fest-idUSN1625935020070316

#5yrsago The Minnesotan left-wing economic miracle continues, while neighboring Republican states slowly collapse https://web.archive.org/web/20170317144750/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-minnesota-mark-dayton-kansas-brownback-liberal-perspe-0506-jm-20150505-column.html

#1yrago How unions de-risk work https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/17/there-once-was-a-union-maid/#solidarity-forever

[thatchronicfeeling]

I’ve been having a bit of a rough time recently and decided to re-watch Middlemarch: The Series. It was a good idea.

[Description: link to the teaser for Middlemarch: The Series on YouTube. Mia Fowler (in the role of Dot Brooke) is pictured. She is a black woman with her hair in braids, wearing a blue polo neck t-shirt. In the background is a white wall with the outline of some photos you can see just behind her head. Dot is framed by a string of white, globe-shaped fairy lights. Underneath the word ‘Teaser’ in the top left-hand corner are the emblems from nine film festivals (listed below). In the bottom right-hand corner is the graphic for Middlemarch the Series.  Official Selection - Melbourne Web Fest 2018 Official Selection - ClexaCon Film Festival 2018 Official Selection - Carballo Interplay 2018 Winner - Award of Recognition - Best Shorts Film Competition 2017 Official Selection - Minnesota Web Fest 2017 Official Selection - Blackbird Film Festival 2018 Semi-Finalist - Los Angeles Cinefest 2017 Official Selection - Direct Short Online Film Fest 2017 Official Selection - Miami Independent Film Festival 2017 Official Selection - Women's Worldwide Film Festival 2018]

[jeffstormer]

Actual Play and Audio Fiction creators LISTEN UP!

tl;dr: Minnesota Web Fest 2024 is open for submissions! Submit your work by 1/31 to get the lowest submission fees:

Submit Your Work on FilmFreeway

The longer pitch:

If you did not know, in 2023 I became head of audio fiction and actual play for Minnesota Web Fest, a film festival celebrating web-based content (incl. web series, audio fiction podcasts, actual play pods, and AP video streams).

I am IMMENSELY proud of what we did last year at the Fest. I think our judges did amazing work pulling together a truly spectacular line-up of shows, all deeply deserving of recognition. This year, I hope to take that even further.

All of that is to say, submissions for Minnesota Web Fest 2024 are now open! This is an opportunity to showcase your work and celebrate the incredible art being created in our spaces.

And if you submit before 1/31, you get the absolute lowest submission fees imaginable.

Submit Your Work on FilmFreeway

[brookston]

Holidays 5.31

Holidays

American Copyright Day

Barter Black Day

Battle of Jutland Anniversary Day

Bicycle Race Day

Big Ben Day

Bittereinders Day (Orania, South Africa)

Brothers & Sisters Day (EU)

Castile-La Mancha Day (a.k.a. Dia de Castilla la Mancha; Spain)

Covfefe Day

Flores de Mayo (Philippines)

Gawai Dayak begins (Dayaks in Indonesia, Malaysia)

Inspiring Teen Moms Day

International Blondes Day

International Enjoy a Cigar Day

International Flight Attendant Day

Jumatul Bidah (Bangladesh)

Jumat-ul Wida (India, UK)

Lady Godiva Day

London History Day (UK)

“Make My Day” Day

National Autonomous Vehicle Day

National Dam Safety Awareness Day

National Fisherfolks Day (Philippines)

National Flip Flop Day

National Foster Parent Appreciation Day

National Meditation Day

National Pik-Up Day (India)

National Smile Day

National Speak in Complete Sentences Day

National Utah Day

Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day

Ponto Faculativo (Brazil)

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Reconciliation Day (Australia)

Red Shirt Day of Action for AccessAbility & Inclusion (Canada)

Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Day (Brunei)

Russian Advocates’ Day (Russia)

Save Your Hearing Day

Scouts’ Day (Vietnam)

Speak In Complete Sentences Day

Take This Job and Shove It Day

Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary Day

Web Designer Day

What You Think Upon Grows Day

White Armband Day

White Stork Day (Poland)

World Foster Day

World Meditation Day (UK)

World No Tobacco Day (UN)

World Parrot Day

Woundwort Day (French Republic)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Judge Day

National Macaroon Day

National Matzah Brei Day

Independence & Related Days

Castilla-La Mancha Day (Spain)

South Africa (Union of South Africa declared, 1910; Republic of South Africa declared, 1961)

5th & Last Friday in May

Bake Challah Day [Last Friday]

Bermuda Day [Last Friday]

European Neighbours’ Day [Last Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival begins [Last Friday, thru Sunday]

National Heat Awareness Day [Last Friday]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (Western Australia) [Last Friday]

Trader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day [Last Friday]

Festivals Beginning May 31, 2024

Cincinnati Fringe Festival [Cincy Fringe] (Cincinnati, Ohio) [thru 6.15]

Dairyfest (Marshfield, Wisconsin) [thru 6.1]

Docudays UA International Human Rights Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 6.9]

Fredericksburg's Dairy Day (Fredericksburg, Iowa) [thru 6.3]

Georgia Blueberry Festival (Alma, Georgia) [thru 6.1]

Georgia Peach Festival (Byron & Fort Valley, Georgia) [thru 6.1 & 6.8]

Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week (Palm Springs, California) [thru 6.9]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival (Little Chute, Wisconsin) [thru 6.2]

Harvard Milk Days (Harvard, Illinois) [thru 6.1]

Hertug Hans Festival (Haderslev, Denmark) [thru 6.1]

June Dairy Days (West Salem, Wisconsin) [thru 6.2]

Lincoln Park Greek Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 6.2]

Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off (Monroe, Louisiana)

Mike The Headless Chicken Festival (Fruita, Colorado) [thru 6.1]

Philly Beer Week (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.9]

Pine Island Cheese Festival (Pine Island, Minnesota) [thru 6.2]

Robin in the Hood Festival (Elmira, Canada) [thru 6.1]

San Joaquin County Fair (Stockton, California) [thru 6.2]

Smokin' In Steele BBQ and Blues Festival (Owatonna, Minnesota) [thru 6.1]

Taste Addison (Addison, Texas) [thru 6.2]

Taste of Omaha (Omaha, Nebraska) [thru 6.2]

Tomato Fest Week (Jacksonville, Texas) [thru 6.8]

Feast Days

Alessandro Allori (Artology)

Andrea Appiani (Artology)

Angela Merici (Christian; Virgin)

Basketball (Muppetism)

Camilla Battista da Varano (Christian; Saint)

Cantius and Cantianus, and Cantianilla (Christian; Sibling Martyrs)

Desecration Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Ellsworth Kelly (Artology)

Feast of the Visitation (Roman Catholic)

Genevieve of Paris (Positivist; Saint)

Grainne (Celtic Book of Days)

Hermias (Christian; Saint)

Insect Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

International No Tobacco Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Mechtildis of Edelstetten (Christian; Virgin)

Michel Kikoine (Artology)

Petronella (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Saint-John Perse (Writerism)

Syaday (Discordian)

Stella Maris Day (Pagan)

This Day … Again (Shamanism)

Triple Blessing of the God Buddha (Everyday Wicca)

Visitation of Mary (Western Christianity)

Walter Sickert (Artology)

Walt Whitman (Writerism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [20 of 53]

Prime Number Day: 151 [36 of 72]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Aniara, by Karl Birger Blomdahl (Sci-Fi Opera; 1959)

Back to Bataan (Film; 1945)

The Brave Little Toaster (Animated Film; 1989)

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1945)

Catnip Capers (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Choose Your Weppins (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf (Essays; 1925)

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills, by Charles Bukowski (Poetry; 1969)

A Day to Live (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

Discovery, by Electric Light Orchestra (Album; 1979)

The Dizzy Acrobat (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1943)

Dragonheart (Film; 1996)

The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1976)

The Word for World Is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Novel; 1972)

Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor (Song; 1982)

Fletch (Film; 1985)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Film; 2019)

Good Girl Gone Bad, by Rihanna (Album; 2007)

Good Omens (UK TV Series; 2019)

Got To Get You Into My Life, by The Beatles (Song; 1976)

How to Trap a Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)

Klondike Casanova (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Love Is a Dog from Hell Charles Bukowski (Poems; 1977)

Man in Black, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1970)

The Merry Kittens (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1966)

The Muppet Movie (UK Film; 1979)

Now, Hare This (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)

Now You See Me (Film; 2013)

Opera Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Overload, by Arthur Haley (Novel; 1979)

Peppa Pig (Animated TV Series; 2004)

Rocketman (Film; 2019)

Soapdish (Film; 1991)

The Sum of All Fears (Film; 2002)

Undercover Brother (Film; 2002)

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin (Essay; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Helma, Mechthild, Petra (Austria)

Krunoslava, Marija, Petronila, Vladimir (Croatia)

Kamila (Czech Republic)

Petronella (Denmark)

Elga, Helga, Helge, Helgi, Helja, Helje, Heljo, Helju, Olga, Olli (Estonia)

Helga, Helka (Finland)

Pétronille (France)

Helma, Mechthild, Petra (Germany)

Eremitas, Magos (Greece)

Angéla, Petronella (Hungary)

Felice, Ferdinando, Giovanni (Italy)

Alīda, Jusma, Jusmins (Latvia)

Anelė, Angelė, Gintautas, Petronėlė, Rimvilė (Lithuania)

Pernille, Preben (Norway)

Aniela, Bożysława, Ernesta, Ernestyna, Feliks, Petronela, Petronia, Petroniusz, Teodor (Poland)

Ermie (România)

Alexandra, Faina, Julia (Russia)

Petrana, Petronela (Slovakia)

Petronila, Visitación (Spain)

Pernilla, Petronella (Sweden)

Petrina, Petronella, Petrunia (Ukraine)

Camilia, Camilla, Camille, Petra, Petronella, Pier (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 152 of 2024; 214 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 22 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 24 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 23 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 23 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 2 Blue; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 18 May 2024

Moon: 40%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 St. Paul (6th Month) [Genevieve of Paris]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 74 of 92)

Week: Last Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 11 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 5.31

Holidays

American Copyright Day

Barter Black Day

Battle of Jutland Anniversary Day

Bicycle Race Day

Big Ben Day

Bittereinders Day (Orania, South Africa)

Brothers & Sisters Day (EU)

Castile-La Mancha Day (a.k.a. Dia de Castilla la Mancha; Spain)

Covfefe Day

Flores de Mayo (Philippines)

Gawai Dayak begins (Dayaks in Indonesia, Malaysia)

Inspiring Teen Moms Day

International Blondes Day

International Enjoy a Cigar Day

International Flight Attendant Day

Jumatul Bidah (Bangladesh)

Jumat-ul Wida (India, UK)

Lady Godiva Day

London History Day (UK)

“Make My Day” Day

National Autonomous Vehicle Day

National Dam Safety Awareness Day

National Fisherfolks Day (Philippines)

National Flip Flop Day

National Foster Parent Appreciation Day

National Meditation Day

National Pik-Up Day (India)

National Smile Day

National Speak in Complete Sentences Day

National Utah Day

Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day

Ponto Faculativo (Brazil)

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Reconciliation Day (Australia)

Red Shirt Day of Action for AccessAbility & Inclusion (Canada)

Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Day (Brunei)

Russian Advocates’ Day (Russia)

Save Your Hearing Day

Scouts’ Day (Vietnam)

Speak In Complete Sentences Day

Take This Job and Shove It Day

Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary Day

Web Designer Day

What You Think Upon Grows Day

White Armband Day

White Stork Day (Poland)

World Foster Day

World Meditation Day (UK)

World No Tobacco Day (UN)

World Parrot Day

Woundwort Day (French Republic)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Judge Day

National Macaroon Day

National Matzah Brei Day

Independence & Related Days

Castilla-La Mancha Day (Spain)

South Africa (Union of South Africa declared, 1910; Republic of South Africa declared, 1961)

5th & Last Friday in May

Bake Challah Day [Last Friday]

Bermuda Day [Last Friday]

European Neighbours’ Day [Last Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival begins [Last Friday, thru Sunday]

National Heat Awareness Day [Last Friday]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (Western Australia) [Last Friday]

Trader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day [Last Friday]

Festivals Beginning May 31, 2024

Cincinnati Fringe Festival [Cincy Fringe] (Cincinnati, Ohio) [thru 6.15]

Dairyfest (Marshfield, Wisconsin) [thru 6.1]

Docudays UA International Human Rights Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 6.9]

Fredericksburg's Dairy Day (Fredericksburg, Iowa) [thru 6.3]

Georgia Blueberry Festival (Alma, Georgia) [thru 6.1]

Georgia Peach Festival (Byron & Fort Valley, Georgia) [thru 6.1 & 6.8]

Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week (Palm Springs, California) [thru 6.9]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival (Little Chute, Wisconsin) [thru 6.2]

Harvard Milk Days (Harvard, Illinois) [thru 6.1]

Hertug Hans Festival (Haderslev, Denmark) [thru 6.1]

June Dairy Days (West Salem, Wisconsin) [thru 6.2]

Lincoln Park Greek Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 6.2]

Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off (Monroe, Louisiana)

Mike The Headless Chicken Festival (Fruita, Colorado) [thru 6.1]

Philly Beer Week (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.9]

Pine Island Cheese Festival (Pine Island, Minnesota) [thru 6.2]

Robin in the Hood Festival (Elmira, Canada) [thru 6.1]

San Joaquin County Fair (Stockton, California) [thru 6.2]

Smokin' In Steele BBQ and Blues Festival (Owatonna, Minnesota) [thru 6.1]

Taste Addison (Addison, Texas) [thru 6.2]

Taste of Omaha (Omaha, Nebraska) [thru 6.2]

Tomato Fest Week (Jacksonville, Texas) [thru 6.8]

Feast Days

Alessandro Allori (Artology)

Andrea Appiani (Artology)

Angela Merici (Christian; Virgin)

Basketball (Muppetism)

Camilla Battista da Varano (Christian; Saint)

Cantius and Cantianus, and Cantianilla (Christian; Sibling Martyrs)

Desecration Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Ellsworth Kelly (Artology)

Feast of the Visitation (Roman Catholic)

Genevieve of Paris (Positivist; Saint)

Grainne (Celtic Book of Days)

Hermias (Christian; Saint)

Insect Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

International No Tobacco Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Mechtildis of Edelstetten (Christian; Virgin)

Michel Kikoine (Artology)

Petronella (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Saint-John Perse (Writerism)

Syaday (Discordian)

Stella Maris Day (Pagan)

This Day … Again (Shamanism)

Triple Blessing of the God Buddha (Everyday Wicca)

Visitation of Mary (Western Christianity)

Walter Sickert (Artology)

Walt Whitman (Writerism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [20 of 53]

Prime Number Day: 151 [36 of 72]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Aniara, by Karl Birger Blomdahl (Sci-Fi Opera; 1959)

Back to Bataan (Film; 1945)

The Brave Little Toaster (Animated Film; 1989)

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1945)

Catnip Capers (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Choose Your Weppins (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf (Essays; 1925)

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills, by Charles Bukowski (Poetry; 1969)

A Day to Live (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

Discovery, by Electric Light Orchestra (Album; 1979)

The Dizzy Acrobat (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1943)

Dragonheart (Film; 1996)

The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1976)

The Word for World Is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Novel; 1972)

Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor (Song; 1982)

Fletch (Film; 1985)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Film; 2019)

Good Girl Gone Bad, by Rihanna (Album; 2007)

Good Omens (UK TV Series; 2019)

Got To Get You Into My Life, by The Beatles (Song; 1976)

How to Trap a Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)

Klondike Casanova (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Love Is a Dog from Hell Charles Bukowski (Poems; 1977)

Man in Black, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1970)

The Merry Kittens (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1966)

The Muppet Movie (UK Film; 1979)

Now, Hare This (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)

Now You See Me (Film; 2013)

Opera Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Overload, by Arthur Haley (Novel; 1979)

Peppa Pig (Animated TV Series; 2004)

Rocketman (Film; 2019)

Soapdish (Film; 1991)

The Sum of All Fears (Film; 2002)

Undercover Brother (Film; 2002)

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin (Essay; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Helma, Mechthild, Petra (Austria)

Krunoslava, Marija, Petronila, Vladimir (Croatia)

Kamila (Czech Republic)

Petronella (Denmark)

Elga, Helga, Helge, Helgi, Helja, Helje, Heljo, Helju, Olga, Olli (Estonia)

Helga, Helka (Finland)

Pétronille (France)

Helma, Mechthild, Petra (Germany)

Eremitas, Magos (Greece)

Angéla, Petronella (Hungary)

Felice, Ferdinando, Giovanni (Italy)

Alīda, Jusma, Jusmins (Latvia)

Anelė, Angelė, Gintautas, Petronėlė, Rimvilė (Lithuania)

Pernille, Preben (Norway)

Aniela, Bożysława, Ernesta, Ernestyna, Feliks, Petronela, Petronia, Petroniusz, Teodor (Poland)

Ermie (România)

Alexandra, Faina, Julia (Russia)

Petrana, Petronela (Slovakia)

Petronila, Visitación (Spain)

Pernilla, Petronella (Sweden)

Petrina, Petronella, Petrunia (Ukraine)

Camilia, Camilla, Camille, Petra, Petronella, Pier (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 152 of 2024; 214 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 22 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 24 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 23 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 23 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 2 Blue; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 18 May 2024

Moon: 40%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 St. Paul (6th Month) [Genevieve of Paris]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 74 of 92)

Week: Last Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 11 of 31)

[erikurtz]

GETTING BACK WITH DAVE BENSON PHILLIPS: Humorously Examining The Many Pitfalls Of Fame

In the ‘90s, British TV personality Dave Benson Phillips helped kids to serve up gooey revenge on parents and adult authority figures on the popular game show GET YOUR OWN BACK. After that series left the air, though, Phillips ended up back in the public eye – but as the far too frequent target o... http://snobbyrobot.com/2017/11/14/getting-back-with-dave-benson-phillips-humorously-examining-the-many-pitfalls-of-fame/

[kids-activation-blog]

Victor Tango - The Creativity Powerhouse in Kids Event & Brand Activation

Victor Tango is known to be a putative brand and considered as a market leader when it comes to organizing kids’ events, business activation services, format owner and production house that specializing in scripted & non-scripted content for OTT platforms, broadcast networks & brands. With more and more brands vouching for the market share, things are getting pretty ugly for most of them to survive in this extensive competition. Victor Tango, comprising a professional team of savvy minds, offers the innovative solutions for this by organizing events and brand activation services. Brand activation includes innovative marketing practices that ensure any brand to have more public outreach. It opens the door for a 2-way interaction with the potential customers. Thus, the brands are bound to create more awareness among the consumers that ultimately leads to forming a connection with them on a personal level.

With the testimonials available from some reputed companies of the country, Victor Tango ensures of creative ideas, superb-planning, and full-proof implementation. The team has a knack of producing staggering ideas, which is later turned into reality to form innovative marketing campaigns. These campaigns have turned out to be an absolute jail-breaker for brands by creating more awareness and outreach among consumers. Some of our other services include- Kids Engagement, Content Production (scripted, non-scripted, & branded) for brand solution, format creation, & line production. The company boasts of 13 awards, with many satisfied clients and projects, which act as an indicator of high quality services.

Events Related Services offered at Victor Tango

Victor Tango is widely recognized for its event-related services. The kids' event management services are one of a kind and we strive hard to make the event as creative as possible. The segment of event-related services include:

School & College Contact Programs: Lot of companies, these days, look forward for reaching out to kids in order to have an interaction with great enthusiasm. The main aim of these events is to educate the bright minds of our country in order to bring out the best from them. We, at Victor Tango, take immense pride in calling ourselves as one of the prime companies providing school & college contact program services. We conceptualize the entire event and as school activity organizers, we make sure that the entire event is carried out efficiently as planned. We work diligently to turn this event into an experience that will be cherished by the kids for a long time.

As part of our college event management service, we organize an educational event for the students in order to spread awareness among them. The entire event is planned in a manner that the young students gain maximum advantage from it and that is what makes us one of the best College Program Organizers. 

Conference & Format Creation: Victor Tango also offers format creation for events and organizing conferences as part of events related services. The conference management includes planning and organizing conferences which act as an informative source for the attendees. The conference planning service demands an intensive format creation and with our experience, we assure of organizing informative conferences that are very effective in spreading awareness.

Activation Services offered at Victor Tango The brand activation services provided by victor tango include strategies that are meticulously designed after spending a considerable amount of time. Thorough background research on the brand and its products are carried out in order to determine the target audience and locations. As a part of brand activation service, school contact program is carried out as the kids represent an important demographic to target. Apart from their own purchasing power, they are also the adult consumers of the future. Therefore, it is highly recommended to plant the seeds of brand recognition in young children hoping it to grow into a lifetime relationship. Some of the activation services are:

Housing Society and Mall Activation: The society promotional services allow the customers to experience the features of the product and hence, are able to leave lasting images in their mind. It offers a more experiential platform for consumers. As one of the prime society program organizers in India, we ensure that a well-designed campaign is carried out that helps the brand achieve more public outreach.

Victor Tango is labeled as one of the best mall activation service providers in India. Mall Activation is a very important method of performing brand activation for any company as it generates valuable feedback from the consumers. These feedbacks hold paramount importance to any brand or company as it gives them an idea about where their products actually stand in the market. Whether the product proved out to be efficacious or futile. Hence, they can make a future decision about the products to be launched.

Brand Launch: The new product launch service is offered as a part of brand activation. It provides a realistic platform to consumers and is generally employed by companies when they launch a new product. The brand launch lets the consumer experience all the features of the product.

Integrated media property: It is used for representing a brand and hence it must be made attractive in order to lure more and more customers. In this method, visuals are designed in such a manner that it creates a curiosity among the users in order to make them explore more about the product.

Over the years, Victor Tango has received several awards and plaudits for providing meticulously designed services. Some of the prestigious awards that we have received are:

EEMAX Global Awards

WOW Awards Asia

Global Event Awards

AFAQS FOXGLOVE Awards

Best Drama Web Series WINNER- MINNESOTA Web fest

We leave no stone unturned when it comes to fulfilling the client’s demand and that is evident from the testimonials provided by some of our reputed clients, like- ZEE TV, RADIO MIRCHI, ITC, MALALA Fund and many more…