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| THREE: JOIN THE TEAM We have a brilliant review team in place for Brighton Festival 2008, one of our best. But we’ve just decided that we want to see even more shows at the Fringe this year, so have a few extra places on the team available. If you are a student or aspiring journalist and fancy getting some hands-on experience and free training in all things arts journalism, plus you want to see the Brighton Festival in a unique way, then drop us an email to jointheteam@threeweeks.co.uk asap. |
Oh hello here, wow, is it May already? Well, I guess that means it is time for another action-packed, show-filled, just-generally-brilliant Brighton Festival. And I guess that means it is time to crank up the ThreeWeeks engine once more. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, ThreeWeeks is back in its favourite seaside city for another three weeks of festival and fringe type madness. And with the Fringe looking bigger and, I reckon, better than ever before, we are really rather looking forward to it. This is the very first ThreeWeeks eDaily of 2008. If we’re being honest, it’s mainly about us. We’ll tell you what we have planned for the Brighton Festival this year, tell you how to get covered and where to read our coverage, and for those of you going "erm, excuse me, what the hell is ThreeWeeks?”, well, we’ll explain. The next eDaily will focus a little more on the festival itself, and then, when we return in your inbox after the Bank Holiday weekend, it will be reviews, reviews, reviews. Oh yes. Finally, if you have any thoughts or comments or just want to say hello - well, come to our shindig at The Globe on Monday (see above) or drop us an email. |
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The ThreeWeeks editors, who have over a decade of experience covering the Edinburgh Festival, and who have been covering the Brighton Festival since 2006, have been busy losing themselves in all the Brighton Festival programmes that have been unleashed in recent months, and have been working their way through the hundreds of emails that have come in from performers at this year’s Fringe. Once the whole thing kicks off they’ll be keeping their ears very much to the ground to get the latest chatter as to what the hidden gems of Festival 2008 might be. And they do all this so they can guide you through the expansive and at times confusing range of shows, productions and exhibitions that are on offer at the 2008 Brighton Festival and Fringe.
In addition to all that, ThreeWeeks has a brand new team of Brighton reviewers who will be hitting the venues of Brighton each day in May, between them reviewing as many shows as it is humanly possible to review from across the Brighton Festival, the Fringe and all the other cultural escapades that take place in Brighton during May. ThreeWeeks will review more shows across the Brighton Festival than anyone else, which is why we can offer you the most comprehensive coverage of it all. But where can you access these tips and reviews? Well, this is where... |
ONE: THE THREEWEEKS GUIDE TO THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2008
NEW FOR 2008, the ThreeWeeks Guide To The Brighton Festival is a free newspaper published right at the start of the festival and packed with features on the shows that are especially exciting Team ThreeWeeks this year.
We’ll tell you about the performers who have impressed us most at Brighton and Edinburgh festivals past and who are appearing at the Fringe this year. We'll even have interviews with many of them, including some previous winners of the ThreeWeeks' Editors' Award at both the Brighton and Edinburgh festival. But ThreeWeeks is always keen to discover brand new talent too, so the Guide will also include features on some of the shows and acts that we’ve just heard about and which sound especially worthy of your attention.
And on top of all this we’ll provide you with our 3toSee show recommends for comedy, theatre, musicals, music, dance, literature and art. You will be able to pick the Guide up, for free, in venues and bars around Brighton from next Tuesday, 6 May.
TWO: THREEWEEKS REVIEWS IN THE ARGUS
For the second year, ThreeWeeks is teaming up with The Argus to bring you a daily batch of reviews from the Brighton Fringe. Everyday we'll have our own column where you will find all the latest reviews fresh in from the ThreeWeeks review team. The first one will appear on Wednesday, 7 May.
We are really excited to be working with The Argus to provide you with the latest reviews on a daily basis. And they are quite excited too! Argus Features Editor Jakki Phillips tells us: "We’re extremely excited about working exclusively with ThreeWeeks this year. By combining our skills, experience and passion, we’ll be able to offer arts lovers the widest range of fantastically written reviews in Sussex".
The Argus will also be presenting their Angel Awards again this May, and the ThreeWeeks team will be nominating shows and performers for those too. We'll let you know who wins what when.
THREE: THREEWEEKS EDAILY
The other place to check out ThreeWeeks reviews every day is through the ThreeWeeks eDaily, which is what you are reading right now. The eDaily will feature every single review we publish this Brighton Festival, PLUS festival news, awards updates and quick quiz questionnaires from Festival performers.
You will receive the eDaily automatically for free into your email box. If you know anyone else who would like to receive a copy, tell them to email brightonsubscribe@threeweeks.co.uk.
FOUR: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK
And don't forget the trusty ThreeWeeks website, where Brighton Festival coverage will start appearing daily from this Saturday, 3 May, and where you will be able to access all our reviews, previews, interviews, tips, recommends and festival style ramblings. Get it in your favourites list right now - www.threeweeks.co.uk
HOW DO I GET COVERED BY THREEWEEKS?
Good question, simple answer. We try to review as many shows as it is humanly possible to do so at the Festival and the Fringe. We choose shows to see on simple logistics - do we have the right genre reviewer available in the right time slot? - if we do, we will send them to see your show (normally arranging review tickets just 24 hours before the show via your venue). So, providing you are listed with the Festival or Fringe or Charleston Festival or Great Escape or Open House programme then you will be on our list, and we will try our best to send someone to see your show.
Meanwhile, we will be including Quick Quiz questionnaires in the eDaily each day. For a chance of being included email the answers to the following, plus a photo and your show listings, to quickquiz@threeweeks.co.uk
The Qs...
1. Tell us about your show in no more than 30 words.
2. What's your role in it?
3. Why are you bringing the show to the Brighton Fringe this year?
4. What are you most looking forward to about appearing in the Fringe?
5. What are you least looking forward to?
ThreeWeeks is the flagship media at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals. Its mission is to provide as comprehensive coverage as is humanly possible of both these festivals, in particular reviewing those shows not getting media coverage elsewhere.
We launched ThreeWeeks in Edinburgh in 1996 because at that time the Edinburgh Festival was growingly hugely each year, but at the same time media coverage was, if anything, decreasing. That meant that many strands at the Festival - and especially the new, alternative and grassroots performers and companies which, as far as we could see, were what made the Edinburgh Festival so exciting in the first place - were not getting the coverage they deserved. From year one ThreeWeeks aimed to cover as many aspects of the Festival as possible, from the big names at the big venues through to the real grass roots shows not covered elsewhere. Over a decade later we continue to operate to that ethos, getting even closer to achieving it by reviewing over 1500 shows each Edinburgh Festival - nearly all of them - and hundreds more than our closest competitors.
Since 2006 we have applied the same ethos in our coverage of the Brighton Festival. This year we will have over 25 student reviewers seeing shows. You can read their reviews via this eDaily, our website and through a daily column in The Argus. We also offer a bucket load of previews and interviews on and with some of our favourite shows and performers, on our website, and via our free ThreeWeeks Guide to the Brighton Festival, available all over Brighton from 6 May.
ThreeWeeks is owned, published and loved by UnLimited Media, a Shoreditch based media and marketing company. It is edited by Chris Cooke and Caro Moses, who also run UnLimited Media. UnLimited doesn't make much money out of the ThreeWeeks enterprise, we do it because we get a buzz in discovering and championing cultural innovation, and the best places we've found to do that are Edinburgh in August and Brighton in May.
Your feedback is always welcomed - email editor@threeweeks.co.uk to get in touch.
Send press and show information to editor@threeweeks.co.uk.