The five tenets of fringe festivals: open access, unjuried, uncensored, original work and the majority of ticket sales go to the performers
In 2017, Denver Fringe Festival founder and executive director Ann Sabbah attended the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “The mothership,” she called it recently during a conversation ahead of next week’s Denver Fringe Festival .
“It was just world-shifting for me,” Sabbah said of her first time there. “I just completely fell in love with the whole idea of it and the event itself. I think on a very gut level and very heart level, I responded to it and felt at that time that I really wanted to do this for Denver. I’m a fourth-generation Denverite and just wanted to do something great that has a lasting impact.”
The last three years, Sabbah has become increasingly immersed in a festival tradition that has gone global. The five tenets of fringe festivals are roughly that the event have open access; be unjuried and uncensored; host all original work; and the majority of ticket sales goes back to the performers. Her participation in World Fringe, the global association that estimates there are 300 fringe fests worldwide, can only deepen and broaden what locals get to see but also are able to create.
“It’s really exciting, just seeing it evolve into the tremendous, empowering, community-building event that I think it can be.” This year, offerings for kids and immersive performances have grown. “I really do believe people who get exposed to the arts at a young age become future art supporters,” said Sabbah, herself a beneficiary of Denver’s once-robust public school arts-education programming. As for the immersive offering, there are nine.
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