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History
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The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival was founded in 2003 by ACDT’s Artistic and Co-Directors, Susan and Giles Collard. The Collard’s vision was to create a city-wide festival bringing new and challenging art to Asheville’s audiences.
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The BeBe Theatre hosted the entire 2003 Fringe Festival. By
2004 the number of venues had grown to 5, hosting 20 performances
throughout the weekend.
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Now in its third year, the Fringe Festival has begun to realize
its mission:
The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, collaborate across genres and bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences.
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The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival serves patrons of art from Asheville and beyond by facilitating the creation and production of avant garde work that may otherwise not find a venue. In past years the artistic mix has included actors, dancers, singers, videographers, painters and musicians, presenting a varied range of interesting work including cross-genre improvisation, Butoh dance, sketch theatre, modern dance, and multi-media performance art. The spirit of the festival also leaves the city “vulnerable” to random acts of art, such as fire-dancing in the street or mass mobs of poets.
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Holding a high standard for artistic integrity, the Fringe
Advisory Board, comprised of representatives from each participating
venue, holds an open call each fall. Artists are invited
to show their work or discuss their working concept. Video
submissions are also accepted. The board adjudicates the
work and assigns accepted artists to appropriate venues.
Each venue plays host to a variety of performers, assuring
an interesting mix to challenge and delight audiences.
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Before past festivals, we have presented a series of “Fringe Laboratories,” hosted by
ACDT, brings artists of varying genres together to learn about
each other’s art and to explore the “chemistry”
that can occur through new and innovative collaborations.
While one goal of the series is the possible development of
new work to showcase in the Fringe Festival, the broader goal
is to feed artists’ creative hunger and to stimulate
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