I can go by myself or invite friends and family from out of town to attend the festival. I cna't be sure what's gonna happen, but something always happens.
Sometimes the event spills out into the street. You walk past a venue and it pulls you into a surprising event.
The catalog is what caught my eye the first time I heard about it and I've been saving them ever since.
Their history (livearts-fringe.org) is:
The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe were founded in 1997 by a growing group of experimental artists in Philadelphia who were manipulating traditional genres, redefining their crafts, and collaborating in ways that the greater art world had yet to see.
The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe now present sixteen days of performing arts events each year, beginning on the Labor Day holiday weekend.
The origianl history is:
In 1947, European music and theater companies were invited to perform at the first annual Edinburgh International Festival. During that same week, eight uninvited theater groups descended on the festivities without warning, adopting and inventing venues that sat mostly on the fringes of the city's center, and thereby creating an unofficial festival of their own. And so the fringe was born. Today, the two festivals coexist peacefully. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe presents thousands of artists each year, and has inspired artists in cities all over the world to join the international fringe movement.
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