Fringe with us 365 days a year

From our curated Fringe Season to the more than 500 events we host in the Arts Barns year-round, to North America’s largest, longest running Fringe Theatre Festival, there’s always something happening here. If you like fringing with us in August, you’ll love what we do the rest of the year.

A bustling Cafe atmosphere with snacks, drinks, and merriment.

Let’s get creative together

Our Fringe Grounds Cafe is your place to meet and create. Open five days a week, you’re invited to catch a break while you sip a fresh cuppa joe or hunker down for a few hours while you work on your next great creative project. Fringe Grounds Cafe is a loiter-positive space designed just for you. We enthusiastically invite you to host your knitting club, meeting, talk-back, or jam at Fringe Grounds for FREE.

Find Your Fringe Theme Artwork; the style is sketch-like and painterly, complete with fire-spinners, festival goers, and text that reads "the 43rd Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival".
The 43rd Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival

Find Your Fringe

The 43rd annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival spotlight 216 theatre productions across 38 venues, with performances by more than 1,600 Artists from right here at home, across Canada, and more than 11 countries. Thank you for joining us!

As North America’s largest, longest-running Fringe Theatre Festival, we invite you to enjoy live theatre, outdoor performances, ice-cold beer, green onion cakes, our ATB Golden Ticket contest, unpredictable Albertan summer weather, and so much more!

Edmonton Fringe is possible thanks to the generous support of our Funders, Donors, Sponsors, and Volunteers. Special thanks to Lead Festival Partner, ATB Financial!

The 2025 Festival happens August 14 – 24, 2025. We can’t wait to see you there!