In Washington, Julianne Brienza notes that next year it will be more difficult to get donations for Capital Fringe.

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Like many fringe events, some performances at the New York City fringe are free, while others require visitors to buy tickets.

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Like many of the performances at Capital Fringe, this opera is not about costly and complex production values.

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of the official festival. In nineteen fifty-eight, the performers formed a Fringe Society to organize their event and provide tickets and programs.

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The central aim of the Festival Fringe Society was not to have a selection process deciding who could or could not take part.

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Every year,more and more artists came to town during this festival to perform outside,or on the "fringe,"

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There are fringe events in Britain, Canada,Australia, the Czech Republic and Singapore, just to name a few of the more than eighty examples.

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Today we travel to the boundaries of artistic production by visiting "fringe" festivals around the world.

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Some Fringe shows are very strange and experimental, while others are more normal, or mainstream.

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Something that is on the "fringe" means it is on the edge, outside established boundaries.

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The Fringe New York City will help organize over one thousand performances this month.

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Fringe festivals celebrate all kinds of art in many exciting, unusual and experimental forms.

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Capital Fringe describes itself as rebellious and adventurous, alive in the present moment.

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That was a volunteer at this year's Capital Fringe which ended last month.

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But you can see this kind of show daily at the Fringe.

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is open to anyone who wants to perform.

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That was Julianne Brienza, the executive director of the Capital Fringe Festival.

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The abandoned buildings added to the experimental "fringe" feel of the event.

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Here she explains why she thinks fringe festivals are so popular.

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In the United States, there are about twenty official fringe gatherings.

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Others, like the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington,D.C., are relatively new.

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One of the first American fringe festivals was in Orlando,Florida.

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Julianne Brienza says the fringe festival will never be mainstream.

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There are fringe events in cities including Minneapolis,Minnesota;

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That is what Fringe enables people to do.

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