What the Fringe?! Join Fringe next Monday for a Panel Discussion to Learn More about Fringe Festivals

Join Fringe Monday, July 18, 2016, 5:30 to 7:30pm at School One for a FREE panel and public discussion: What Is Fringe?

As an introduction to the Festival, join us on Monday, July 18 for a 5:30 reception, followed by a 6pm panel and 7pm q&a session to learn about how and why fringe festivals, including Providence's, have developed and evolved around the world; hear from fringe artists what it's like to produce and perform theatrical works outside of traditional performance spaces; and consider the role that a week of new, original, untested performances can play within a community, before, during, and after the festival.

Organized and moderated by Christina Bevilacqua, Director of Public Engagement, Providence Athenaeum, panelists for What is Fringe? include; Christina Alderman, Assistant Director of Family & Teen Programs, RISD Museum; Darcie Dennigan, writer and performer; Avishek Ganguly, Assistant Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at RISD and board member at The Wilbury Group; Jed Hancock-Brainerd, performer and theater maker, co-founder of Strange Attractor Theatre; Shey Rivera, Artistic Director, AS220; and Kate Kataja, FRINGEPVD 2016 Festival Director and Artistic Associate, The Wilbury Theatre Group.

"What Is Fringe?" takes place at School One, 220 University Avenue, Providence, and it's FREE and open to the public.

FRINGEPVD is presented by the Wilbury Theatre Group and supported in part by a grant from the Providence Tourism Council and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. View the Facebook event page here.