Infringement Festival International
Odds are, your community suffers from oppression, monoculture, apathy, or boredom (or maybe all of the above.) If so, an infringement festival could provide inspiration and amusement - and help raise awareness for positive social change and global justice.
The infringement is a democratically run, non-hierarchical interdisciplinary arts festival open to all critical artists - theatre, music, film, street performance, visual arts, and more. It began in Montreal in 2004 as a protest against the co-option of experimental and DIY theatre by the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals, and has since spread to Ottawa, Toronto, Buffalo, Regina, New York City and Bordeaux, France, with new communities joining regularly. They don’t charge a registration fee, and have guidelines to keep the festival independent.
Interested in hosting an infringment in your community? Click here for a PDF guide to starting one!
That’s really cool. I’m not sure how some fringe festivals get away with calling themselves fringe..