Time for a Fusical! An Awards Evening Whimsical and Electrical

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The Arts Fuse will be holding its second Fusical November 16 at Warehouse XI in Somerville! This will be a whimsical and electrical evening to celebrate The Art Fuse's 10th Birthday and to honor those who have made unsung contributions to New England's arts scene with an awards ceremony. Don't miss this exciting event--get your tickets by clicking on "Order Tickets."

The Award Winners:

Music: Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic Saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase

Visual Arts: Trevor Smith, Curator of the Present Tense at the Peabody Essex Museum

Books: Wakefield Press, Cambridge, MA

Film: Independent Film Festival Boston

Theater: Charlestown Working Theater (The Arts Fuse theatre award will be named in honor of the late actor Thomas Derrah)

Presenter: IBA (Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción) Arts Program, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts

Entertainment will include:

DJ Flack of Beat Research

The Gere Sedgwick Duo

Ryan Lee Crosby and his Quintet

Comedy by Jimmy Tingle

Lighting design by Todd Sargent

Sound engineer Dana Westover

Ticket round-up -- price includes two drink tickets for beer or wine.

VIP Champagne Toast and schmoozefest, $75 ($45 tax deductible): 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Award Ceremony Ticket: $50 ($25 tax deductible)
Artist/Writer Ticket: $25

*Tickets will also be available at the door day of.

To purchase tickets online, click here.

If you would prefer to purchase tickets by check, please mail checks made out to Global Narratives Inc. to:

Bill Marx, The Arts Fuse

103 Highland Road

Somerville, MA 02144

Online Auction

To accompany the evening, the Arts Fuse will be auctioning off a number of fun and unique items to bid on to raise money for our organization. You can explore these items by selecting "View All Items" above. The auction will be online, so you can still bid even if you can't join us on Nov. 16. The auction is open now and will close at the end of the Fusical event.

Please consider donating items or a service to support the Arts Fuse and contribute to the festivities. Show your support by clicking on the "Donate Items" button to contribute to our catalog. Whether you have 1 item or 100 to contribute, your participation is an invaluable part of our fundraising efforts. By donating an item or service directly online, you'll be helping to raise money for our organization, and you'll receive a mention on our auction site that can link back to your own web page.

Picking Up Items:

Many items will be available for pick-up at the Fusical event on November 16. We are also able to mail items to you. Winning bidder will be responsible for shipping costs, which will be added when you are charged for purchasing the item. If winning bidders are local, we will contact you to confirm if you would like the item shipped or would like to arrange local pick-up outside of the event.

About The Arts Fuse

Since The Arts Fuse began publishing in July 2007, it has increased editorial coverage of the arts and culture across Greater Boston and New England with in-depth criticism, previews, interviews, and commentary covering theater, music, dance, visual arts, and film. With more than 2,500 articles published, The Arts Fuse is providing the next generation platform for thousands of arts and culture consumers across Greater Boston and beyond.

In reaction to the declining arts coverage in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, Editor-in-Chief Bill Marx started The Arts Fuse as a non-profit organization that could experiment with professional online arts criticism, looking at new and innovative ways to use the online platforms to evolve the conversation and bring together critics, readers, and artists. For more than two decades, Bill wrote about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online media outlets including WBUR, WGBH, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, Washington Post Book World, the Nation, the Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, and The Village Voice. Bill won United Press International and Associated Press awards for his radio reviews of Boston theater. He has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Reviewer’s Citation three times.

The Arts Fuse has now become home for more than 60 contributing writers, critics, and editors across New England and beyond.