Calgary Fringe
OUR MISSION:
The Calgary International Fringe Festival Society (otherwise known as the Calgary Fringe) strives to support artists and arts workers of all disciplines by providing opportunities that offer a hand up and not a hand out. We strive to offer Calgarians an opportunity to build community through the arts. The Calgary Fringe is a welcoming community where values of equality, nondiscrimination and tolerance of DIVERSITY are appreciated and actively promoted. The Calgary Fringe seeks to achieve this end by offering the community inclusive and accessible arts programming that stress a broad-based, interdisciplinary approach to the arts, by fostering an environment of artistic freedom and expression.
The Calgary Fringe is a proud member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) which was formed to protect these five guiding principles:
* Participants will be selected on a non-juried basis, through a first-come, first-served process, a lottery, or other method approved by the Association.
* Artists will receive 100% of the tickets and pass price, as agreed upon between the artists and festivals (less any applicable government taxes). Festivals may add a surcharge to tickets and passes.
* Fringe festival producers do not interfere with artistic content of each performance.
* Festivals must provide an easily accessible opportunity for all audiences and all artists to participate in Fringe Festivals.
* Festivals will promote and model inclusivity, diversity and multiculturalism, and will endeavour to incorporate them into all aspects of our organizations including our boards, staff, and volunteers.
The Calgary International Fringe Festival Society is a registered non-profit registered charity (867143877-RR0001)
ABOUT THE CALGARY FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL:
The Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival runs for 9 days during the summer, starting the Friday of the August long weekend. This non-juried, uncensored artistic event will feature raw and innovative local, national, and international theatrical productions – and MORE!
ABOUT FRINGE U(NIVERSITY):
FRINGE U is an experiential entrepreneurial programme specially designed to give emerging artists and arts workers the tools they need to become their own boss - empowering them to take control of their own futures and to create more work opportunities for themselves in the arts that they love! (https://www.calgaryfringe.ca/fringe-u).