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    Independents’ Day Adds More Arts to Entertainment Lineup

    Do you like variety in your arts experience? Adding The Independents’ Day Festival into your calendar automatically guarantees you a chance to include some excitement and enjoyment in your weekend.

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    The Independents’ Day Festival is returning to Franklinton for two days of great music and great food on wheels. It also includes a variety of other acts that really showcase the great talent that that can be found right here in Columbus. This year, the festival is offering more than it ever has, which includes theatrical performances, dance, poetry, and comedy.

    For the first time ever the festival will be showing an array of different theatrical performances. The Black Space Performing Arts Collective will be putting on plays by different directors ranging from diverse cultural backgrounds. There will also be puppeteers, a burlesque show and drag shows.

    Comedy at the festival will not be lacking either. Everyone loves a good laugh, and these performances will give that to you and much more. Stand-up and improv will be within walking distance, so you could leave the festival with your cheeks hurting — in a good way of course. Local comedian Travis Hoewischer has curated a lineup of ten stand up comics for everyone’s enjoyment.

    As far as poetry goes, this year you will get to hear it collectively; the poets will be grouped together and performing readings one after another. It’s a new way of presenting the poetry that the festival is trying for the first time.

    “It’s almost like a band of poets performing,” said Independents’ Day Captain James Allison. “It gives it all a little more presence.”

    In other words, with all of these great performances going on, there will never be a boring moment. These moments come from great talent, but also from hard work. 

    Allison said that he has been involved with the Independents’ Day festival for the past five years, with this being his first year leading the whole festival.

    “It’s a challenge, but there are a lot of great people involved who are the energetic leaders of Columbus’s future,” said Allison.

    After the festival relocated from Downtown to its current home in Franklinton, there has been much more room to spread out all of the acts and performances. That in turn allows other types of performances to be more noticable.

    “Every time I was moving, I would make it around the whole festival in an hour, but then the next hour it looked like a completely different festival,” added Allison. “There’s a lot involved in this, and there’s something unique going on all the time.”

    Columbus has always been an incredible outlet for creative arts and events to reside. This festival is in the perfect place to represent what it is to be creative, to have fun, and to be yourself.

    “One of Columbus’ best assets is the independent arts  and culture here,” said Allison. “And this festival does its best to celebrate that.”

    For more information, visit www.thisisindependent.com.

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    Lauren Verhage
    Lauren Verhagehttps://columbusunderground.com
    Lauren VerHage is an Intern at Columbus Underground, who writes for the Arts & Entertainment section. She will be attending OSU in the spring with a major in Strategic Communications. Lauren has an immense love for breakfast food and a fascination with outer space.
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