Meeting Fringe

Jeffery Meulman from the Dutch theatre and the Fringe Festival was giving a presentation at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. It was a very interesting presentation. After the lecture I went to meet him in person.Jeffery is a very ambitious man with a lot of contacts in the theatre scene.For UNION we where still looking for actors. Jessica and I made an appointment with Jeffery so we could see if we could mean anything for each other.The meeting followed a few days later, Jeffery liked our concept and invited me and Jessica to a theatre show that upcoming Thursday.
In this show there where some actors who might be interested in supporting UNION, well that’s what Jeffery thought.The show was great, in Dutch theatre there is always nudity so I wasn’t surprised when in the first act, a women was doing a half scene topless J
You got to love it.. boobies !The actors where real good, after the show, Jeffery introduced me to Anneke. Anneke is a real cool spontaneous lady who is the connecting point off all the actors involved with Fringe.We planned a meeting with here and she gave us some good options for actors and directors.
We where running quit late on confirming our actors so you can imagine that Jessica an I where getting a bit more nervous every day, we stupidly thought that Jeffery could arrange all the actors for us, one phone call and we where done. Well we found out it doesn’t work like that. If you have money it might go that easy but with no budged that is just not possible, you need to get people excited and the only way to do that is a personal meeting, it would have been too easy.
So Jeffery gave us Anneke’s contact and through Anneke we got the email of Valentine.Still no confirmed actors....!Anyway Valentine is a professional actress, she also directs.
While Jessica and I where explaining our vision to her, she just smiled an nodded. She had amazing bright blue eyes, blond hair and she looks like a little porcelain doll. I could see the fire in here eyes underneath and I imagined why many men would melt before her.Over a cup off coffee we explained her everything about UNION.         
We raised the point that the cuts in art and culture shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing, if the cuts are mad, lets make the best off it.

Union is about creating an independent creative sector, where the creative’s are supporting each other in there own initiatives, and those of others.
We don’t agree at all, with all the cuts that are being made, but we want to see it as a positive challenge. Now is the time for the real creative’s to rise above everything! This is our time.. UNION time.Her vision totally connected with ours, she gave us a breath of fresh air with her enthusiasm. She was in!!! And the best thing is that she knows some other actors who could be interested in joining UNION. Mission Complete..well on baby step furthur haha.
XoXo

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