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Causes: Arts & Culture, Performing Arts, Theater
Mission: Capital fringe's mission is to connect exploratory artists with adventurous audiences. Fringe focuses on expanding audiences' appetites for independent theatre, music, art, dance and unclassifiable forms of live performance and visual art. Over the past 13 years, capital fringe has become well known and relied upon for providing space, resources and opportunities for both individual artists and companies, as well as a place for community and letting loose.
Programs: Since purchasing and moving into the logan fringe arts space in october of 2014, fringe has dramatically expanded its reach and increased its engagement. Today, fringe brings artists and audiences together 52 weeks a year to explore and come together not just through theatre but visual art, live music and creative events at the logan fringe arts space. Fringe maintains a demonstrated and steadfast commitment to the local arts community and provides career-building opportunities by creating year-round outlets for live performance and visual art. To date, fringe has presented 12 major festivals featuring over 44,000 participating artists to an audience of over 350,000 ticket buyers. Despite an open-door policy, a significant percentage of fringe artists and productions produce high quality work. In fact, many shows go on to be presented in the curated fringe festivals of live arts in philadelphia or fringenyc. For six years, the winner of the helen hayes award for outstanding emerging theatre company got their start at the annual fringe festival. Fringe has generated $2. 1 million dollars in revenue for artists participating in fringe festival. Over the last year fringe has made a significant impact on the audience, artists and citizens of this community. Here is a detailed inventory of its interactions and activities:" nearly 40,000 (exact 38,873) adventures audience members engaged with capital fringe's work" over 6,000 exploratory artists created work " 38,105 subscribers received fringe's communications-with an open rate of 23. 9% today, capital fringe brings artists and audiences together 52 weeks a year to explore and come together through art, theatre, dance, music and creative events at the logan fringe arts space, which it purchased in 2014, in the trinidad ne neighborhood of dc, and throughout our city. Capital fringe is led by its founder, julianne brienza and a 10-member board of directors that represent a wide spectrum of dc residents and businesses.