St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival | |
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Genre |
Concert dance Drag queen Fringe theatre Recital Repertory theatre |
Date(s) | June |
Frequency | Annual |
Location(s) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Inaugurated | 1990 |
Attendance | 60000+ |
Patron(s) | McAuslan Brewing |
Website | http://montrealfringe.ca/ |
The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is a festival that hosts fringe theatre, repertory, dance, music, and drag-queen performances in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] The festival is held annually and lasts for 20 days in June. [2] The festival was previously run by Jeremy Hechtman and Patrick Goddard, [3] but Hechtman stepped down in 2010 after being in the position for 15 years. [4] The festival has been run since 2011 by choreographer Amy Blackmore. [5] McAuslan Brewing sponsors the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival and several other festivals in Montreal, including Pop Montreal, the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Fantasia Festival. [6] The 2007 festival featured a mass fake marriage for theatre-goers at the beginning of the festival and then a corresponding mass fake divorce at the end symbolised by the eating of timbits. [7]
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