Artists
Over 250 applications received to be a part of the 5th Annual Fringe Festival! Notification will go out in late February to early March.
FYOV ( find your own venue ) applications will come out in March.
What is the Capital Fringe Festival?
The Capital Fringe Festival is a self-producing festival, where established and emerging artists can present their work free of a selection process. For some of you applying it may be a once-a-year opportunity, and for others, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create, produce and perform a show. For more established companies/artists, this can be an opportunity to take a new risk and join the Fringe movement. We strive to encourage Artists in our Festival to give expression to their talents and develop their artistic freedom: without any curatorial barriers between their work and the audience. We want to empower the artists in our Festival to continue on as successful, independent producers.
How does Festival work?
The Fringe staff arranges space, funding, training programs, marketing and community engagement. Artists apply for participation, and as many as possible are selected - first-come first-serve - to present their work in the annual Festival. Those who are not immediately accepted are placed on a waiting list and notified of their acceptance if space becomes available.
Capital Fringe has consistently guaranteed and given - on average - 70% of the ticket revenue back to the Artists in each of its first four years. Most Fringe artists are scheduled for five performances. In 2009, each artist in our Festival received an average of $1,400 in ticket revenue with some performers receiving up to $5,000 for their five-show run.
Artists are asked to describe the sort of venue they would prefer for producing their show in the Fringe (stage size, technical requirements, etc.). Capital Fringe tries to make sure each show is assigned the venue that best fits what is requested. Space is limited - we can’t always give a best-case scenario to our artists, but we work hard to come as close as we can. Fringe staff compiles and reviews all applications from January to February. Artists/companies are notified in mid to late March about acceptance. Upon acceptance, each artist/company is given a HOW TO FRINGE GUIDE that walks them through producing in the Festival. Fringe staff is also available to answer any remaining questions that Artists might have. During the Festival, each artist is given a unique online account to view their own box office in “real-time”. Box office payments are mailed to the artist 15 business days after the Festival.
Despite inflation, we have committed to keeping our ticket prices at $15.00 to be accessible to all economic brackets. All attendees must purchase an admission button, good for admission to the festival plus discounts around the District throughout the year.
