Tucson Fringe Festival

With the closing of the National Endowment of the Arts, Tucson Fringe no longer has access to a national grant which helped the festival with operating costs and paying staff. Tucson Fringe is raising money to ensure that we can continue paying the people who put in the most work during the festival to help the artists share their work with the Tucson community. This includes the people who manage our box office and social media, photographers, and technicians who handle the lights, sound, projections, and any other needs the artists have for their show. They play the most vital role in the success of the festival and this GoFundMe will help make sure they are paid fairly for their time.

The cost for venues is approximately $5,000. The cost for paying staff is approximately $3,000. An additional $2,000 in expenses covers advertising, printing, insurance, and office supplies.

Tucson Fringe 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.

Watch the video below to learn a little more about Tucson Fringe. You can also visit our website www.tucsonfringe.org, or find us on social media; @tucsonfringe.