Chicago Fringe Festival

Chicago Fringe Festival

Chicago Fringe Festival is a performing arts festival showcasing traditional and non-traditional performances. CFF aims to provide a space for artists to produce shows that would not otherwise be seen and a festival that is accessible to everyone. All tickets are $10. All shows are one hour long. All theatres are within walking distance of each other.

The inaugural festival was held on September 1–5, 2010 in Pilsen. The second festival will also be held in Pilsen on September 1-11, 2011.

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Features of the Chicago Fringe Festival

100% Non-Juried The Chicago Fringe is a non-juried event. Rather than being selected by judges, the participants are selected by a series of lotteries: Local, Non-Local and Diverse.

Within those categories, four groups were selected through the newly formed Midwest Fringe Circuit which guarantees slots in the Kansas City Fringe, Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, Minnesota Fringe Festival and Chicago Fringe Festival.

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History

All Fringe Festivals trace their roots to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which began in 1947.

After producing shows at the New York International Fringe Festival and Minnesota Fringe Festival, Executive Producer Sarah Mikayla Brown (previously Managing Director of Tantalus Theatre Group) wanted to bring that kind of "glorious chaos" to Chicago.[1] Chicago Fringe Festival was founded on December 30, 2008.

The inaugural festival attracted 156 applicants. A total of 46 groups (23 local and 23 non-local) performed in eight non-traditional venues in Pilsen in September, 2010.

References

  1. ^ http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/dance/node/24662

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