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Want Your Name on a Wall of Fame?
and what to do with that old fencing helmet 🤺
Ben Thietje
June 26, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 8 minutes
Hello! I’m Ben, executive director at the Phipps.
Welcome to The Flying P, a weekly newsletter covering your Phipps Center for the Arts and anything else I might want to throw your way.
me in my office the last two days
The weather is so yucky.
It’s driving me nuts.
Will you please send some towels?
This issue has…
🎉 Kids Doing Kid Things
it’s summer after all🥇 An Adventure Wall of Fame
do you have what it takes🛠A Volunteer Appeal
Little Shop needs you
PROGRAMMING
Will your name be on the Adventure Wall of Fame?
Nicole crushed it with the Wall of Fame design
Just tossing this out there: the Adventure Wall of Fame is nearly completed (big thanks to Nicole Rother and her props skillzzz) and it is FUN.
Oh, I’m sorry — you thought we were kidding when we said that all Adventure Series passholders would be listed on the Adventure Wall of Fame? WE WERE NOT KIDDING. THERE IS AN ADVENTURE WALL OF FAME. YOU NEED TO BE ON IT.
You have until July 11th (the first Adventure Series event date) to grab one of these specialty passes and add your name to this most distinguished of fame walls.
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PHIPPS TOP 10
best-selling upcoming events this season by tickets sold…
1. Cinderella, a Phipps ballet (previously: 2)
2. It’s a Wonderful Life (previously: 1)
3. Deathtrap (previously: 3)
4. Little Shop of Horrors (previously: 4)
5. Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (series) (previously: 6)
6. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: The Music of Amy Winehouse & Carole King (previously: 5)
7. Knight, Knight (previously: 7)
8. Hornucopia (previously: 9)
9. Colleen Raye’s New Year’s Eve (previously: 8)
10. Silent Centennials (previously: 10)
BETTER HURRY LIST
best-selling upcoming events this season by percent sold
(i.e., closest to being sold out)…
1. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: The Music of Amy Winehouse & Carole King (previously: 1) SOLD OUT — click to join the wait list
2. Knight, Knight (previously: 2) this one’s getting close, gang…don’t wait
3. Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (series) (previously: 3)
4. Hornucopia (previously: 4)
5. Silent Centennials (previously: 5)
as of 6/26/25
EDUCATION
It’s Summer Arts Camp
Summer Arts Camp gang
The giggliest, screamiest, jumpiest, runniest time of year is BACK! It’s Summer Arts Camp season at the Phipps!
Yes, the rain has been a bummer (seriously, will it ever stop raining?), but 100% mega fun is still being had by all. Highlights so far include but are not limited to:
Imaginact: Bubble Guppies
Art & Science Lab
and of course…Wicked Dance Camp
Obviously, there’s a whole lot more than that. Registration is ongoing through the middle of August. Click here to sign up the Littles in your life.
yes, the fun dry erase board schedules are back
artist: Pauly Cudd
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my favorite gallery piece of the week
Get to Gallery Two to see Pauly’s blown glass work in person. It’s NEATO.
TEAM PHIPPS
We have a wig wall
love what you do, and you’ll never work a day in your life
Sometimes your costume storage has shelving made for folded clothing but what you really need is shelving large enough for styrofoam wig heads. When that happens, you put on your, um…fencing helmet?…and you simply do what needs to be done. 💪
With help from Alicia Benzer, our costume shop manager, Bridget Lentz, did just that. And just like that, we have a place for wigs.
Keep that in mind this October.
shhhhhh…let’s not wake them
if you build it, they will come…and be eaten
Little Shop of Horrors casting is nearly completed, and that means we now need to whip up a set. How do we do that? WITH AMAZING VOLUNTEERS, OF COURSE!
The Phipps scene shop is on the lookout for folks. Can you spare an hour or two to help out? You don’t need a lick of experience and our scene shop manager, Kassi, is really good at finding something fun and interesting that fits your vibe. Click here to sign up for a slot!
Are you the smartest PCA person in town?
Prove it by completing The Flying C(rossword).
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Talk to you next week!
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