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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Performing Arts, Theater
Mission: The Tucson Fringe Festival is an unjuried, uncensored performing arts festival. Since 2011, following international fringe tenets, the festival provides artists with low-risk, low-cost opportunities to perform by using economies of scale to reduce venue rental costs and by taking only 20%, and sometimes 0%, of the artist’s earnings. Tucson Fringe also provides the Tucson arts community with avant-garde, non-traditional performing arts at low-cost ticket prices. The festival does not curate or select the performances, maintaining an environment in which everyone and anyone can perform. This ensures that underrepresented artistic voices, such as people of color, the LGBT+ community, women, and other marginalized genders, are championed in our community.
Results: We've paid over $60,000 to more than 150 artists. That's more than 6,000 tickets sold.
Target demographics: underrepresented artistic voices
Geographic areas served: Tucson, AZ