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City of Santa Cruz: Keep SF Mime Troupe at San Lorenzo Park!
Local musician, activist, and volunteer for the SF Mime Troupe, Karen Kaplan, informs us that this year, the SF Mime Troupe will be performing at Porter College's outdoor quad at UCSC, but not at San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz, as has been the tradition for so many years. Apparently the Mime Troupe performance was nixed by the City of Santa Cruz's Planning Department this year.
Photo: Santa Cruzans watch the SF Mime Troupe perform in San Lorenzo Park in September, 2007. Photo by Bradley Allen
Kaplan broke the news in a letter she sent to the City Council and has shared with the Santa Cruz Community:
Dear Santa Cruz Mayor, City Council, Supervisors & Parks Department:
RE: Keep San Francisco Mime Troupe at San Lorenzo Park!
It was unfair to deny the SF Mime Troupe from performing this year at San Lorenzo Park. Please bring them back!!!
Please encourage free popular public performances in parks, especially the San Francisco Mime Troupe at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz.
The Santa Cruz Parks Dept has been too strict in demanding expensive structural engineering stage permits.
For more than 5000 years, people have been building "sukkahs" temporary dwellings, without permits. This sets a precedence, so that a small temporary stage should not require a permit.
To my knowledge, the SF Mime Troupe portable stage is safe, has never collapsed, caused damage nor harm.
The SF Mime Troupe travels from the city to towns. The durable stage is constructed to withstand many seasonal performances. It is unreasonable, too expensive and tedious to demand that the SF Mime Troupe pay for a structural engineer to inspect the stage and purchase permits. Performances are offered free to the public, with minimal donations accepted. The SF Mime Troupe cannot afford, nor has the time for inspections, before performances.
The SF Mime Troupe is a highly regarded tourist attraction and a boost to our local economy. People buy food and drinks at local restaurants, markets and bakeries, stay at hotels, purchase beach chairs, blankets, sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, pay sales tax, etc. to attend a free comedy and musical performance at the park.
This year, the SF Mime Troupe will be performing on Saturday August 6 and Sunday August 7, 2:30 PM at UCSC Porter College Outdoor Quad, but not at San Lorenzo Park.
Since parking at UCSC is difficult, it may deter attendance and is therefore not the most ideal location to be accessible to the larger Santa Cruz Community.
Please forward this letter to supporters of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Karen Kaplan
SF Mime Troupe Volunteer
More info about the SF Mime Troupe: http://www.sfmt.org/
Kaplan broke the news in a letter she sent to the City Council and has shared with the Santa Cruz Community:
Dear Santa Cruz Mayor, City Council, Supervisors & Parks Department:
RE: Keep San Francisco Mime Troupe at San Lorenzo Park!
It was unfair to deny the SF Mime Troupe from performing this year at San Lorenzo Park. Please bring them back!!!
Please encourage free popular public performances in parks, especially the San Francisco Mime Troupe at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz.
The Santa Cruz Parks Dept has been too strict in demanding expensive structural engineering stage permits.
For more than 5000 years, people have been building "sukkahs" temporary dwellings, without permits. This sets a precedence, so that a small temporary stage should not require a permit.
To my knowledge, the SF Mime Troupe portable stage is safe, has never collapsed, caused damage nor harm.
The SF Mime Troupe travels from the city to towns. The durable stage is constructed to withstand many seasonal performances. It is unreasonable, too expensive and tedious to demand that the SF Mime Troupe pay for a structural engineer to inspect the stage and purchase permits. Performances are offered free to the public, with minimal donations accepted. The SF Mime Troupe cannot afford, nor has the time for inspections, before performances.
The SF Mime Troupe is a highly regarded tourist attraction and a boost to our local economy. People buy food and drinks at local restaurants, markets and bakeries, stay at hotels, purchase beach chairs, blankets, sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, pay sales tax, etc. to attend a free comedy and musical performance at the park.
This year, the SF Mime Troupe will be performing on Saturday August 6 and Sunday August 7, 2:30 PM at UCSC Porter College Outdoor Quad, but not at San Lorenzo Park.
Since parking at UCSC is difficult, it may deter attendance and is therefore not the most ideal location to be accessible to the larger Santa Cruz Community.
Please forward this letter to supporters of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Karen Kaplan
SF Mime Troupe Volunteer
More info about the SF Mime Troupe: http://www.sfmt.org/
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