The San Diego International Fringe Festival is a non-profit
fringe theatre festival project of conTACT ARTS, in association with the Actors Alliance of San Diego, designed to help provide a platform for artists while also helping the community as a whole - boosting arts and culture within the City of
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eigh ...
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During the festival, artists from across the United States and around the world participate alongside home-grown talent in art forms including theater,
buskers/street performers, cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, film, poetry, spoken word, puppetry, music, visual art, design and other forms.
Key to the operation of San Diego International Fringe Festival is its role to support, encourage, and facilitate producers, artists, presenters, venues, and businesses. The festival works to ensure that artists and all participants involved have the best possible experience.
Features
The San Diego International Fringe Festival provides Fringe-managed venues as well as the opportunity for artists to bring their own venues via BYOV (Bring Your Own Venue). Material presented can include site-specific works that take advantage of city features, as well as works staged in theaters, including
San Diego REP's Lyceum Theatres and the
Historic Spreckels Theatre.
The defining virtues of the festival are that it is open-access and uncensored, it is not juried, and 100% of its ticket income is given to the artists.
See also
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Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual fringe theatre festival in Hollywood, California. Most indoor venues for the festival are in and around Hollywood Theatre Row, a stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Founder Ben Hill ...
References and external links
Official WebsiteCanadian Association of Fringe Festival (CAFF) ListingUnited States Association of Fringe Festivals (USAFF) ListingKPBS 2015San Diego Story 2015SD Reader 2015Vanguard Culture 2015Voice of San Diego 2014Union Tribune 2013
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