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A biennial Fringe Festival that takes place in the northern Lithuanian town of Zagare, just minutes from the border with Latvia.
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Zagare Fringe Festival 2015 from Gemma Riggs on Vimeo.
The Zagare Fringe Festival, being part of both the Baltic Nordic Fringe Network and the World Fringe Network (approx. 300 festivals worldwide), has already taken place on 4 occasions, in 2015, 2017, 2019 and with a one-off Fringe Day in 2022. The 2023 Festival will be the delayed 4th full weekend, after the Covid related postponement in 2021.
The Zagare Fringe Festival acknowledges and celebrates the fact that music, theatre and the arts are so valuable in their ability to reach across language, political and geographical borders, and bring whole communities together on a journey of discovery and enrichment. The town of Zagare is a small Northern Lithuanian town on the Latvian border, with a current population of approx. 1300, rich in history, located amongst beautiful nature, and with an emerging international and artistic community integrating into the future footprint of the town.
The Festival provides a unique and exploratory platform for contemporary culture to inspire and develop in this welcoming small town environment by presenting a weekend of events, featuring a variety of artistic activities, concerts, performances, exhibitions and educational workshops covering a wide range of genres. It breaks down the barrier that usually left contemporary culture in the urban domain, and brings it into a rural area, reaching, inviting and touching a new audience, and providing a fresh outlook for artists alike.
The Zagare Fringe Festival acknowledges and celebrates the fact that music, theatre and the arts are so valuable in their ability to reach across language, political and geographical borders, and bring whole communities together on a journey of discovery and enrichment. The town of Zagare is a small Northern Lithuanian town on the Latvian border, with a current population of approx. 1300, rich in history, located amongst beautiful nature, and with an emerging international and artistic community integrating into the future footprint of the town.
The Festival provides a unique and exploratory platform for contemporary culture to inspire and develop in this welcoming small town environment by presenting a weekend of events, featuring a variety of artistic activities, concerts, performances, exhibitions and educational workshops covering a wide range of genres. It breaks down the barrier that usually left contemporary culture in the urban domain, and brings it into a rural area, reaching, inviting and touching a new audience, and providing a fresh outlook for artists alike.
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World Fringe
Zagare Fringe Festival is part of a worldwide network of Fringe Festivals, called World Fringe. World Fringe is the International Fringe Festival Association bringing the Fringe community together. Each year over 200 Fringe Festivals across the globe showcase hundreds of thousands of artists and performers. 19 million people see approximately 170 thousand performers in 60,000 free and ticketed events. Fringe Festivals make dreams happen! You can learn more about World Fringe here. |