I'm volunteering my free after work time for the Prague Fringe Festival this year (same as I did last year).

http://www.praguefringe.com/2008/programme.php
From the insiders perspective of Fringe Festival:

I would recommend to see/hear at least:
-40 Feathered Winks (touchy feeling...)
-Adolf (mind opening... please remain till the very end of the story
even if you feel like quitting in the middle)
-Sax to the Max! (many many great musicians exported from UK in
location that is normally hidden from general public)
-Magic & More with Frisco Fred (just hilarious)


Personal rating:
1. Magic & More with Frisco Fred
18:30 - 19:30 Divadlo Na Prádle - Kavárna
Comedy On The Square
Come spend a fun hour with the world's only nearsighted comic, magician, ...

2. 40 Feathered Winks
21:00 - 22:00 Divadlo Na Prádle
The Paper Birds
One third of human life is spent in bed; resting, crying, hiding,
lovemaking, ...

3. Adolf
8:15 - 19:15 Nosticovo divadlo
Pip Utton
Utton, looking uncomfortably like the Fuhrer, stands before a huge Nazi ...

4. Karagiozis Exposed
19:30 - 20:20 Divadlo Na Prádle
Open Arts
Karagiozis is a Cypriot shadow puppet. Through a mistake of his
puppeteer, ... In English and French


I heard was good (did not verified yet myself):
-The Sacred Sow
19:30 - 20:30 A Studio Rubín
Prague Playhouse
Dark and lyrical, the play's characters spin yarns about themselves, each ...

-The Tale of a T-Shirt
18:30 - 19:30 Divadlo Inspirace
Kennwort:Bergstation & Fixt Point Theatre
Float around the world as you follow the fantasy of a t-shirt, from cotton ...

-A Stretch of the Imagination
19:45 - 20:45 Nosticovo divadlo
Monk and Mort
Monk O'Neil, in the back of beyond, is facing death alone, with resilience ...


For those who appreciates music and songs:
-Sax to the Max!
19:30 - 20:30 Kostel sv. Jana Křtitele na Prádle
The National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain
SAX to the MAX! pushes the energy and imagination of thirty feisty
saxophonists ...

-Yellow Sisters
5:30 - 16:30 Divadlo Na Prádle
Ženská vokální skupina (Female a cappella group)
"… four hearts, four souls, four voices, four ways to share emotions ...

Some photos from volunteering times here /some more here / from Kostya.

Great, great District 59 Toastmasters conference is over. I have enjoyed every moment of helping to organize this conference. I have learned so much!!! Even guiding the Prague castle and old town walking tours under the rain was somewhat new and interesting, that I have never done before. Here are photos from main event and following gala dinner.

Been to Kiev on May vocation. Home. Intense meeting days. Got charged emotionally. Kiev is not an easy place to live, but it there is an electricity of growth and development. Very motivational environment - feels like you have to do something, stand for your rights, dreams, territory, otherwise you may be pushed overboard. Natural survival. But at same time there is tender love and natural beauty everywhere.


Here are photos.