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Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival

Don’t Forget!!! The dates for the 2006 Fringe, “Hi Yo Fringe – Away!!! The 25th Anniversary” are August 17-27, 2006!!!

10330 – 84 Avenue

Edmonton AB

T6E 2G9

t: 1 – 780-448-9000

f: 1 – 780-431-1893

TICKETS

http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/index.php/festival/content/C95/

NEW this year = Mini Fringer Package (only available to hotels and tourist groups). The Mini Fringer Package includes a Mini Fringer Pass which grants you admission to 5 shows. The package also includes a Fringe A-Go-Go T-shirt and a Fringe program.

Frequent Fringer Passes and Double Fringer Passes are available for purchase through the Fringe Box Office. Mini Fringer Packages are only available from participating businesses. Please check with this site closer to Festival time for more information on where to get your Mini Fringer Packages.

The Fine Print is as follows: The Frequent Fringer Pass and Double Fringer Pass are non-transferable, and you will still need to stand in the general line at the door to pick up tickets—you are not be able to reserve advance tickets with the passes. The passes are only available in limited quantity.

In Person
WINSPEARCENTRE

1. Sir Winston Churchill Square
   
   Corner of 99th Street and 102 Avenue
   
   Edmonton, AB

Tickets: (780) 428-1414

The focal point of Winspear Centre for Music is its concert hall, designed in the tradition of the great European orchestral halls. A separate rehearsal hall and appropriate back-of-house support facilities, including offices for the Edmonton Symphony and the Edmonton Concert Hall Foundation, facilitate the use of the Centre by diverse members of the community. Winspear Centre for Music opened in September 1997.

The 1917-seat concert hall is a tall, rectangular room with stepped, curved balconies and terraces. With its parallel side walls, the Winspear represents a modern adaptation of the classic “shoebox” shaped concert halls of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The room was designed to have exceptional natural acoustics for a wide range of musical events, from symphonic orchestra, chamber ensembles, and soloists, to amplified folk, jazz, country music, and speech. The acoustics of the Winspear are adjustable through the use of velour banners and curtains on every level of the hall.

These can be used to control the reverberant characteristics for musical events that require a less reverberant environment, or for orchestra rehearsals when the presence of a full audience needs to be approximated. An adjustable canopy system balances the clarity and reverberance of performances, helps control the loudness of the sound, and – in conjunction with the curved acoustic reflectors – assists in cross-stage communication among musicians.

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, situated in the north…with a population of 1,016,000 (2005 est.). A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.

At 684 km2, Edmonton is also one of the largest cities by area in North America…However, Edmonton also has the one of the lowest population densities in North America — about 67 times less than New York.

Edmonton serves as the northern anchor of the “Calgary-Edmonton Corridor”…is a staging point for large-scale oilsands projects …Edmonton is Canada’s second most populous provincial capital (after Toronto) and is known as a well-rounded cultural, government, and educational centre.

It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning it the title of Festival City¹. Among these is included:

1) Edmonton’s Capital Ex (formerly the Klondike Days Exposition),

2) The Fringe (SEEBELOW) North America’s first and largest fringe event

3) Edmonton International Street Performer’s Festival

4) Edmonton Folk Music Festival

5) Cariwest

6) Canadian Finals Rodeo and many more.

It has also hosted many international events, including the 2001 IAAF World Track and Field Championships, the West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix, and the 2005 World Masters Games.

It is home to North America’s largest mall, West Edmonton Mall,

Canada’s largest historical park, Fort Edmonton Park, and North America’s largest collection of authentic eighteenth century ships-of-the-line. In 2004, Edmonton celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as a city in 1904.

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton%2C_Alberta

WORTHNOTING – O MAGAZINE (OPRAH) AUGUST 2005

• After a summer of successes for Edmonton, from the inaugural West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix to the World Masters’ Games, one of Edmonton’s favourite and best known festivals has also received a bit of star treatment. The August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine featured four of North America’s fringe festivals: New York, Philadelphia, Minnesota and Edmonton.

Although it’s a short piece, the article points out that the Edmonton Fringe is the oldest of the more than 25 festivals of this genre in North America.

“It’s simply the kind of publicity you couldn’t possibly buy,” says Miki Stricker, Edmonton Fringe Festival director. Indeed, even if the O magazine article doesn’t attract a horde of foreign tourists, it underscores this city’s importance—if not pre-eminence—in theatre.

http://www.edmontonians.com/Archives/Sept05archive/Sept05_more_civic_buzz.htm