Fringe North International Theatre Festival

Dates – August 12-22, 2021

Local and international theatre companies return to Sault Ste. Marie in 2021. 100% of the box office goes to artists with maximum fringe theatre ticket price set at $12. Performers can charge less but not more.

Fringe North is a member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) and World Congress of Fringe Festivals.

All Fringe festivals share a set of common guidelines with the aim of providing an easily accessible opportunity for all audiences and all artists to participate.

These guidelines include:

· Participants will be selected on a non-juried basis, through a first-come, first served process

· The audience must have the option to pay a ticket price, 100% of which goes directly to the artists

· Fringe North festival producers have no control over the artistic content of each performance. The artistic freedom of the participants is unrestrained.

· Fringe North will provide an easily accessible opportunity for all audiences and all artists to participate in Fringe Festival

The Fringe theatre movement started in 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland, still home to the world’s largest fringe festival. The first Canadian fringe festival was founded in Edmonton in 1982. Since then the movement has spread across the continent and the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals currently boasts 30 member festivals across Canada and the United States. We are also a member of the World Congress of Fringe Festivals which boasts 250 Fringes world-wide.