And so it begins...

Hello, inter-land! I'm Liz, and I'll be your intern-guide to the fascinating and frantic world of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe for the summer. I'm a rising senior at Haverford, and I'm spending 10 weeks with the festival thanks to the generous support of the Hurford Humanities Center at Haverford College.
I just got back to the country a couple of weeks ago (I spent this last year in Paris), so I didn't start working until Monday. The first few days have been pretty uneventful -- I've been getting to know the rest of the office staff, as well as my fellow interns, and doing some odd jobs, like adding photo credits to pictures that will eventually end up in the festival guide, and assembling a huge press release mailing going off to media outlets far and wide, and ranging in size from small local papers (the Chestnut Hill Gazette!) to major nation-wide press like MTV and the New Yorker. I sat in on my first staff meeting today, which gave me more of an idea of what the rest of the summer's going to be like -- it looks as though I started working right as things start heating up.
I'm going to keep this short, and post again soon with more about the festival and what I'm doing there... I hope with lots of good pictures and links to artists' websites. In the meantime, you can head over to www.livearts-fringe.org to learn a little bit about the festival!