Scranton Fringe Festival

Congrats and break legs to our friends & colleagues at the Scranton Shakespeare Festival as they prepare to kick off their 10th anniversary season!

We are getting ready for tomorrow to support our creative allies and partners at Black Scranton! We will have posters and wristbands for sale (donation-based) with proceeds to benefit Black Scranton's amazing new community center, along with info on #ScrantonFringe!

STATIC, which began its journey at the 2018 Scranton Fringe Festival, is part of this amazing virtual festival! Thanks to the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre, 59E59 Theaters, for hosting this digital celebration of the performing arts!

From our friends at Meals on Wheels Community Services of NEPA!

Life and is a storytelling-based podcast that we've helped bring to life! The fifth and final episode of season two is now live! Special thanks to Keith Williams, the advocacy and outreach director for the Mycil Center For Independent Living, and everyone who shared their first-hand accounts with us this season. Want to be considered as a featured storyteller for next season? We will return later this year with our third season, "Life and...celebration"! To be considered, please complete this brief online form: https://forms.gle/cwP4arNNCnYYRHW18

An update from our chug-tastic friends at The Bog! Did you know The Bog helped fundraise for nonprofits like FRINGE, even during their shutdown? PLEASE go support them when they reopen and thank them for being such a pillar of our regional arts community!

Did you miss our sold-out Observe Scranton StorySlam? No fear! Thanks to the wonderful team at ECTV everyone can now enjoy these powerful stories, anytime they want! Special thanks to all who made this event possible!

The Cry About It podcast (with host Joe Caviston) had our co-founder/executive director Conor Kelly O'Brien as a guest! Take a listen wherever you listen to podcasts or check out this Youtube video!

#ScrantonFringe will be taking part and celebrating at the Juneteenth Jubilee - Ribbon Cutting & Block Party to support Black Scranton and their new, amazing arts and culture center!

Our pop-up exhibit continues -- visit us today till 5pm in downtown #ScrantonPA at 200 Adams Ave, next to our friends at Lavish!

THANK YOU! Thanks to your brilliant support and kind assistance, our final total raised was $14,308 (and placed us as #14 out of 200+ nonprofits)! Thank you all so very much and immense gratitude to the Scranton Area Community Foundation and GiveGab for helping making #NEPAGives possible. ... We are so grateful to everyone who donated, organized, and helped promote our fundraising efforts! This further proves that our artistic community, near and far, can do anything when we work together!

One last check-in for NEPA Gives 2021 -- donate NOW: https://www.nepagives.org/organiza/scranton-fringe-festival

Support a different local business every Friday in February while helping raise funds for #ScrantonFringe! Special thanks to our partners at Space Time Mead & Cider Works, The Garden Mediterranean Cafe, Adezzo and Mansour's Market Cafe!!!!

Join us tomorrow night (Sunday, January 17th) at 7pm est for the next episode of FRINGE FOCUS with our special guest - Kenneth L. Huston. Kenneth is the president of the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. Join us for a live conversation regarding the journey of his career, goals for the NAACP in 2021 and more! FRINGE FOCUS is live streamed via this Facebook page and the #ScrantonFringe YouTube page!

Meet D.T. Burns - one of the featured artists who is creating original work for the Scranton Fringe Animal Crossing Fest! D.T. is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller, originally trained as an acrobat in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, D.T. returned to the United States to pursue a career in the arts. With a BA from Rice University and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, D.T. has an impressive list of performances and career accomplishments that you can learn more about via their website!