HiChristina is an occasion to play together in a light, fun and meaningful way, in a safe place for people of all walks of life.  Everyone is an artist but many of us aren't given an opportunity to exercise our creativity and perspective, our specialness in the role we play at home or to survive in the world.  Whether it means drawing on a wall, painting on a person's body, giving an impromptu speech, crawling around on the ground, making sounds in the human orchestra, creating and donning fantastical costumes, or collaborating with strangers to create an epic novel, HiChristina gives space, time, and opportunity for the full range of self-expression. HiChristina is Christina Ewald and Fritz Donnelly.

And now... HiChristina is making a movie! I LIKE YOU is a feature-length narrative film that arises out of an ongoing and well-received foray into new kinds of participation and performance called "HiChristina!" Dubbed "a fairy tale" by the New York Times and given the Best of New York 2010 Award by the Village Voice for "Wackiest Gatherings," HiChristina is about expressing yourself in radical fun ways. While the internet has been connecting us digitally, HiChristina! has been offering people new and old fashioned ways of being creative and playing together. We create scenarios to coax out the way of being that doesn't typically have a place to play. Now we're making a movie about the process of becoming yourself, a bigger wilder funkier self: it's a fictional film, a narrative, complete with steadicam shots and focus pulls. Get Involved / Learn more here.
Fritz posts updates on the progress of the movie just about every other day here.

About Fritz and Christina:
Fritz makes movies (writes, directs, produces, acts). He's been called a 'Film Guerilla Auteur' by Black Book Magazine and was on the cover of the Independent. His work has been shown in diverse places from outdoor film screenings, to movie theaters like Anthology Film Archive, to educational institutions like the Granoff Center for Creative Arts at Brown University, to New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art. He's been featured in 'best of' programs by the San Francisco High Concept Low/ Budget Film Festival, on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), at Rooftop Films 'best of' 10 year event, and at Slamdance for the Disposable Film Festival's retrospective program. Here's one of his films on hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/64700/to-the-hills-2
For more of Fritz's films see: tothehills.com
Here's some of Fritz's other projects. A humorous novel, How to Live the Good Life:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/how-to-live-the-good-life/10910015
A fictional presidential candidate Frank Delaware: frankdelaware.com

Christina makes clothes, her specialty is vintage reconstruction which combines unexpected combinations of garments and patterns to create wonderful 'why didn't I think of that before' effects. She began making clothes for others when she walked down the street one day and people wanted to buy the clothes she'd made right off her back. See traveled the country with a theatre troop and scoured every thrift store east and west of the Missippi. Her clothing line was first called RXapparel because each article was a prescription for a particular person or fashion need. The line includes men and women's clothing and first appeared at Clothes Optional, a vintage store in Chicago. She came to New York for a trunk show and then got a boutique in the lower east side called Slip that she ran with scandinavian reporter/fashionista Ewa Joseffson. She was featured in Paper Magazine. This storefront would later become the first home of HiChristina! Fritz and Christina's participatory performance experience. For more about Christina's clothing line write: rxapparel@gmail.com

Christina plays music with Alexa Wilding and Tim Floujan in Alexa's band. She is also one half of the duo L*O*V*E Sparkle. She did movie styling and acted in the movie I LIKE YOU. She designed this website and has styled all kinds of things including apartments, people, clothing lines, websites, film and tv sets. She is a kind and generous hostess and a hilarious stage personality. (I'm allowed to write this stuff Christina would never say it about herself.-Fritz)

Have an event or party coming up?
We can HiChristina-ify your event/party/gathering! Our rates are affordable and our ideas and methods out-of-this-world! fritzandchristina@gmail.com

THANK YOU for your generous support of new art and novel social experiene in NYC!

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