Our Values
At Fringe Theatre, everyone is radically welcome. Our currency is kindness. ‘round here, we champion the dream of making it: making art, making community, making change, making memories.
Howdy, fringer. We’re happy you’re here.
Fringe Theatre is a safer space for brave ideas and big artistic risk. This is where chance encounters grow into meaningful collaborations, where messy first inklings become brilliant realizations.
We continue to learn and evolve as our community learns and evolves. Below, please find links to our commitments, resources, and tools. This is an evolving list. We are subject to instant improvement and look forward to continuing this important work with you.
Thanks for being here. You belong here.
pêhonân: A meeting place for community members.
Where the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns stand today is a “meeting place” or “waiting place” known in Nêhiyawêwin as pêhonân. We honour the tradition and responsibility of upholding the intention of this meeting place and aim to create a space where fringing is for everyone, and everyone is fringing.
Named for the meeting place we have the great honour of upholding, we continue to nurture pêhonân. pêhonân is Fringe Theatre’s Indigenous-led, Indigenous-centred storytelling series as part of the Fringe Theatre Season and Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.
Our Values
At Fringe Theatre, everyone is radically welcome. Our currency is kindness. ‘round here, we champion the dream of making it: making art, making community, making change, making memories.
Fringe Grounds Cafe
Fringe Grounds Cafe is your place to meet and create. Located inside the lobby of the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns, Fringe Grounds is so much more than freshly brewed coffee (though it’s very much that, too). It’s a safer space for brave ideas and big artistic risk. Fringe Grounds is in the community and for the community. The doors are open to everyone, and no one will be turned away. This is a loiter-positive space. You don’t need to spend money here to be welcome here.
Offer What You Will
At Fringe Theatre, we believe in the power of story. We believe everyone has something to offer. And we believe in making theatre accessible to everyone. Offer What you Will tickets are available for every Fringe Theatre Season show. You may offer any dollar amount you’re able to contribute, or you can offer other non-monetary ways of showing respect and mutual investment, such as tobacco, your own art, or a donation you feel the artist(s) will benefit from. No one will be turned away.