The 2021 Fringe Festival is going to delight your senses and provide you with a theatre experience that is Fringe worthy! Local, national and international artists bring you in-person and digital offerings that showcase that we are Sylvia Ceacero resilient and that theatre is Executive Director, here to stay. Whether you Interim access the performances live Vancouver Fringe or online, this year’s lineTheatre Society up appeals to all senses and sensibilities, invites everyone to embrace new and diverse horizons, and challenges us to think differently and to open our hearts and minds. Theatre brings us back to our roots and also grounds us. It provides soul enriching experiences that create long lasting memories and bonds, fills our hearts with delight, provokes our thinking and challenges our assumptions. My short stay as Interim E.D. has been filled with hard work, delight, a profound sense of accomplishment and extraordinary respect for the individuals who serve this organization. Our Board, tirelessly reaches further and deeper into the organization to elevate it to new horizons. Our staff works relentlessly to accomplish the vision of the organization to bring theatre to everyone. Our volunteers rally with the organization to assist with providing you, our dear audience, with an experience like no other. And of course our donors and funders who have supported and continue to support the Fringe in its evolving journey. This year, we will continue to provide our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff with a safe Festival environment while we amp up the enjoyment and the sensory experience. The Fringe is transforming itself and along with that transformation, it looks to a future that is filled with diversity, hope, compassion, understanding, inclusivity, accessibility, abundance and joy.
The past year has been challenging for virtually everyone involved in the arts, the Fringe included. We want to take the time to learn from these experiences and undertake a long term visioning exercise that includes everyone with an interest in the Fringe. With that in mind, we invite you to participate in our Fringe Engagement Project so you can do some storytelling of your own. Using Participatory Narrative Inquiry and working with Harvest Moon Consulting, we are asking you, our Fringe community, to share a single Fringe story with us by using this link: https://harvestmoonpni. com/wp-con-tent/plugins/narrafirma/webapp/survey. html#project=Vancouver%20Fringe&survey=Fringe%201.0 Whether you have been to one show or 50, are a volunteer, an artist, a donor, a staff member, or a friend of the festival, your stories are important to us and will help us shape the Fringe of the future. Thank you for supporting Theatre for Everyone. As a IBPOC board member, performer in this year’s Fringe, and someone hard of hearing, I’m especially looking forward to the excitement of live theatre and cheering audiences. And let us hope that this year will be one full of cheer, as we welcome artists and audiences to one Jai Djwa of our most diverse Fringes Member of the BC Arts yet. This year, 38% of the Council shows are by or include Member of the IBPOC artists. This info is Vancouver Fringe Board based on core creative teams and casts that include IBPOC folks. While we continue to work on getting our house in order and building our organization to be more inclusive and welcoming, I personally am also delighted that finally, theatre is back. Happy Fringing!
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I want to welcome all of you back for a signature Fringe Festival that is daring in its boldness and mighty in its breadth. Thanks to all of you who make the Fringe a thriving hub of creativity and progress.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Fringe Festival, I would like to welcome you to the 2021 Fringe! We are very thrilled to have so many theatre companies and individual performers ready to share their talents and stories with live audiences again. We are also Claudia Sjoberg very excited to have partnered President with Pippa Mackie and Omari Vancouver Fringe Newton, two former Fringe Theatre Society artists, to design and lead our Opening and Closing nights. We are also very pleased to welcome Raven John, Deb Courchene, and Trickster Media to do a very special show on September 13th. Please come out and see some shows, chat with your neighbours, reconnect with friends and be part of the festive Fringey atmosphere.
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