Monday, February 14, 2011

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Wild Goose in December!

It's a busy season at Wild Goose Creative! Please join us for some our great upcoming events in the month of December.

Speak Easy
Thursday, December 2 @ 7 pm
$5 at the door
Our monthly live storytelling event! Come share or just listen to the stories. The theme for December is Celebrate Good Times (Come On!): Holiday Tales.

Too Many Cooks: Coffee & Cocktails with Luck Bros Coffee
Sunday, December 5 @ 7 pm
$10 at the door
Our monthly culinary arts event will feature Andy Luck from Luck Bros Coffee and Paul Schmucker, cocktail expert and enthusiast.
Monday Night Live Wild Goose Menu Launch Tweet-a-thon Christmas Pageant Comedy Fundraiser
Monday, December 6. Doors @ 8:30 pm, show starts @ 9:00 pm
$5 at the door
Join us for a special edition of our monthly comedy night, kicking off our menu fundraiser campaign and featuring a live Twitter fundraiser.

Holiday Art & Trunk Show
Monday, December 9 from 6-10 pm
Get your Christmas shopping done with an arts and crafts show featuring the work of Etsy Team Columbus!

ArtSwap
Sunday, December 12 from 7-10 pm
Bring your art, crafts, or vouchers for artistic service and swap it for holiday gifts!

Christmas Presence
Thursday, December 18 @ 7 pm
Our annual night to celebrate all things Christmas related, with songs, stories, food, and community. Take a moment to slow down and ponder the season.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wild Goose meets Garrett Morris!

Here's the Wild Goose Comedy Cabaret team pictured with SNL alum Garrett Morris at the 2nd annual Shadowbox Sketch Comedy Festival. Morris served as a judge at the festival, and we got the opportunity to get a picture with him afterwards!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

BaconCamp - September 4, 2010


Bacon. It's delicious. And we'd all eat a pile of it if no one was watching. It deserves to be celebrated.

Wild Goose Creative is the official Columbus presenter for the national event BaconCamp! It is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment about bacon. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event. It i...s community driven and everyone is encouraged to participate by presenting (food, art, demo), judging, or volunteering.

BaconCamp is not a spectator sport.

There are a limited number of tickets available, so buy them early! We do expect to sell out and we want to be able to celebrate bacon with you!

We will be holding a Bacon Cooking contest and a Bacon Art/Craft contest. We will have prizes available from amazing Columbus vendors and restaurants, and illustrious judges from local businesses. BaconCamp is proud to be held at North Market this year!

When: Saturday, September 4th, 2-5 PM (International Bacon Day!)

Where: North Market, 59 Spruce Street, Columbus, OH 43215

More info: http://www.baconcampcolumbus.com/

BaconCamp Columbus 2010 is sponsored by:
Sugardale
North Market
Bacon Salt
Edible Columbus
Betty's Family of Restaurants
CD101
Feed Social Media
Jeremy Slagle Design
Wholly Craft!
Skreened
Stinkybomb Soaps
Das Lolli
Bluescreek Farm
Columbus Music Co-op
Breakfast with Nick

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Columbus Creative Soapbox


Join us on Thursday, July 8 at 6 pm, outside the Columbus Museum of Art for the Columbus Creative Soapbox. Nearly 70 arts groups from Columbus will get 2 minutes at the mic to tell everyone what they do. Come see a sampling of Columbus' amazing creative scene!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

GEEKFEST 2010: June 16-19

We're opening our doors to celebrate geek culture! If you are a comic book fan, superhero fanatic, film buff, gamer of any description--or if you wish you were--you are welcome!

Wednesday June 16 (FREE)
7pm Gallery Opening: Hey Kids!: A History of Comic Book Advertising
Throughout Geekfest we will be featuring Hey Kids! : A History of Comic Book Advertising,” a exhibition curated by local artist Michael Neno. The exhibit will feature over 60 ads from the 1930s to the present. In addition to classic ads for Charles Atlas, with their sand-kicking bullies, X-Ray Specs and 'Sea Monkeys,' the exhibit will feature a diverse array of obscure, bizarre, charming and unintentionally funny appeals--from the earliest ads for video games to the anti-drug ads of today's comic books.

Thursday June 17
7pm Forbidden Kingdoms: The Art and Science of Roleplaying Games
Gaming enthusiast and actor Karl Boettcher sees a natural link between roleplaying and the stage, and he leads a group of gaming actors in a roleplaying demonstration/performance for you. This event is designed to share with an audience of experienced gamers and the inexperienced alike the awesomeness of communal improvisational storytelling. Come learn about roleplaying, and experience a cool story!The setting is Edinburgh, just before WWII. A steam train puffs in the distance, on a gleaming steel bridge across the Firth of Tay. Danger and intrigue await those who ride upon it! Will our heroes ride into glory or will our foes manage a great destruction?

Friday June 18
8pm Sketch by Number presents an hour of geeky sketch comedy
Local sketch comedy team Sketch by Number produces unique, fast-paced, audience-participatory comedy, and they get their geek on in a frenetic hour on the Wild Goose Creative stage. This is a team of talented performers, not to be missed.

9:30pm Nerdcore Rising: a film
Nerdcore: what happens when you mix hip-hop and computer-obsessed geeks. Nerdcore Rising follows MC Frontalot, the "godfather of nerdcore," on his first national tour to reveal to roots of the genre, the dorky complexities of its artists, and one MC's fight for nerd stardom. The film features Weird Al Yankovic, Jello Biafra, Tycho and Gabe, Brian Posehn, MC Frontalot, MC Kris, MC Lars, and a slew of other nerdcore artists and commentators. Come for your opportunity to see this film in Columbus!

Saturday June 19
9pm Video Game Costume Party
Come dressed as your favorite video game character -- anything from Link to Luigi to Liu Kang. Can you manage a Tetris block? We think maybe you can! There'll be door prizes, a variety of prizes for costumes, wicked video game music, and vintage and modern video game competitions, as well as cool gaming-themed food! Some of the proceeds will be donated to Free Geek Columbus, a local organization that provides computers to under-resourced populations.

SPONSORS:
Laughing Ogre Comics
Wholly Craft!
Fuse Factory
Vaguely Qualified Productions
Whistling in the Dark Theatre

For more info and updates: http://www.wildgoosecreative.com/Geekfest_2010.html

Monday, April 26, 2010

Events, Events, & More Events!

So many events are coming up at Wild Goose Creative! Feel free to join us for any of them! (Links go to the Facebook events.)

Monday Night Live
Monday, April 26 at 8:30 pm
$5, BYOB
Our newest monthly event kicks off tonight! In the tradition of Saturday Night Live, this show will feature the best and brightest of Columbus in sketch comedy, stand-up, and live music. Join us the fourth Monday of every month!

Silent Art Auction fundraiser
Friday, April 30 at 6-9 pm
$20 ahead of time; $25 at the door
Help Wild Goose raise some funds while supporting local artists and designers! The event will feature the work of Columbus College of Art & Design students.

Too Many Cooks! with Trattoria Roma
Sunday, May 2 at 7 pm
$10
Join us for our monthly culinary arts event! May will feature the delicious Italian fare of Trattoria Roma.

Speak Easy
Thursday, May 6 at 7 pm
$5, BYOB
True stories told live! Our monthly live storytelling event, held on the first Thursday of each month, draws a crowd who wants to hear and share their stories. The May edition will feature stories told around the theme of travel, so come on out and share your tale!