Fresh Fruit Festival

The Fresh Fruit Festival is a New York summer arts festival featuring the work of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) artists. Held every July, the festival was founded by Carol Polcovar in 2003 and sponsored by All Out Arts and New Village Productions. It is currently a program of All Out Arts a 501c3 organization. It includes a wide range of plays, visual arts, dance, and film presentations. Along with the Hot! Festival, it is among the most prominent LGBT-themed festivals in the New York artistic community. Fresh Fruit Festival enters its 10th year in 2011. Carol Polcovar held the position of Artistic Director of the festival for the past seven year. Frank Calo a long time Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway producer is the current Artistic Director. Fresh Fruit Festival is the only grassroots multidiscipline LGBT Arts Festival in NYC, growing not from a theater group but from LGBT political activists seeking to fight homophobia through the arts.

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Past Festivals

Performing Fruits 2007

Special Events

Can't Prove It On Me: A Benefit for Fresh Fruit and the Musicians of New Orleans, honoring LGBT Jazz Greats Featuring Rome Neal, ButtaFly Soul, Linda Oh, Laraine Goodman, and Jolie Garrett.

Going Bananas II: A Night with the funniest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Comics Hosted by Murray Hill

The Art Of Drag: Hosted by Clover Honey Featuring The Church Ladies For Choice, Samantha Richards, Jacqueline Jonee, Radical Faeries, Millie Shayntwrite, and Lady Maria Chaste Diva

Theatre

Short Plays and Performance Art

Poetry/Spoken Word

Visual Arts

Dance

Performing Fruits 2006

Special Events

CAVALCADE OF FRUITS at the Slipper Room: SONGS FROM A FRUIT RICH SOUL: Featuring a world of musical imagination with MC: ButtaFlySoul and David Brown, Lisa Jackson and Kathy Valentine with Anne Rebold. FRUITS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Highlights from this year’s festival and a look at the best of past performances.

TWO SPIRIT EVENING: Celebrating of the First LGBT People on our Continent • Produced by Robert Urban • Featuring Georgie Jessup, Roger Kuhn, John Birdsong, Maurice Kenny and honoring Kent Lebostock recipient of the Fresh Fruit Award for Service to Diversity

Theatre

Short Plays and Performance Art

Poetry

Film and Video

OUT TO THE MOVIES

Dance

Development (Play Readings)

Performing Fruits 2005

Musicals, Musical Revues, Cabaret Performance

Plays

Performance Pieces and Short Plays

Poetry and Literature

Multi-Media

Musical Performance (without book)

Spoken Word

Video

Visual Art

Performing Fruits 2004

PLAYS

PERFORMANCE AND SHORT PLAYS

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

POETRY

COMEDY

DANCE

Performing Fruits 2003

PLAYS

PERFORMANCE and SHORT PLAYS

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

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