March's Update Newsletter - Tickets on sale soon/ Accommodation Offer/ Good luck Nelson Fringe

March's Update Newsletter

Tickets on Sale Soon, 15% Discount Accommodation Offer,
Volunteer Opportunities, Good Luck Nelson Fringe

(photos by our official Fringe photographer Jack Ollila Lux Praguensis)

Greetings from Sunny and blowy (and sometimes snowy!) Prague,

April is coming which means that tickets for the 22nd Prague Fringe will be on sale soon. Stand by as we put the finishing touches to the programme and launch our most exciting line up yet.

Keep your eyes peeled on our social media platforms for sneak peeks of the programme as artists round the world start broadcasting their upcoming visit to Prague.

We are still seeking some volunteers for the 2023 season - we provide accommodation at no cost in the Fringe zone for international volunteers - if you are interested in finding out more please check out the details here and/ or below.

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There are now less than 2 months till the 22nd Prague Fringe get these dates in your diary if you haven't yet - May 22nd - 27th 2023.

Steve Gove,
Director, Prague Fringe.

Fringe 2023 Launching Soon

5,500 tickets to go on sale next month!

Every month we are so grateful to the number of new friends that sign up to Prague Fringe Friends of the Fringe scheme. We have not quite reached our goal of 50 new friends yet and will welcome any new sign ups with open arms!

Even if you are not planning to come to Prague for this years Fringe and you are one of our long distance fans, please consider one of our options below - times are still a tiny bit rocky(ish), for us all we know, so your help is much appreciated.

50 Friend of the Fringe sign ups would make a significant impact on our marketing budget, are you a Friend of the Fringe yet?

Friend of the Fringe  2023 2,200 CZK (90 EUR)
Best Friend  2023 5,000 CZK (200 EUR)
Fringe Angel  2023 10,000+ CZK (400+ EUR)

Full details on benefits associated with the above here.

Long live Prague Fringe.

Last few Days of Nelson Fringe!
Good Luck Giles Burton

Co-Founder of Prague Fringe Giles Burton (who we have been missing during the pandemic years) has been the Director of Nelson Fringe in New Zealand (where he lives) since 2021. Good luck in the last few days Giles! Check out the Nelson Fringe programme here.

Accommodation Offer

White Swan Boutique Apartments
15% Discount for Artists and Fringe Visitors

Great news!

White Swan Apartments, our new accommodation partner for 2023, is offering a 15% discount for people coming to Fringe.

We have all 12 apartments (sleeping over 60 people in total) held for the Fringe dates - these apartments can NOT be booked anywhere on-line - please contact us at office@fringe.cz and we will connect you with them directly for a quote.

Swan Apartments and Charles Bridge Hostel are generously sponsoring Fringe by accommodating 10 international staff members as well as our new Fringe Comedy Club in their basement venue right next to Charles Bridge - we can not recommend them more.

'I checked out the apartments last week and they are perfect - spacious, clean and quiet and could not be closer to the Fringe zone' Steve Gove, Fringe Director.

Become a Volunteer Festival Assistant
at the 2023 Fringe

Festival Assistants are the heartbeat of the festival and hold an essential role in ensuring the Front-of-House operations of each venue run like clockwork and that the festival is successfully promoted across the city.

Festival Assistants work across a variety of venues from the afternoon until late evening and take it in turns to see the various performances whilst on duty. We are looking for adventurous, energetic, creative, organised and responsible people to be the faces of the Fringe, as venue staff and on street team, to promote the festival, manage venues, sell tickets and money handling, deliver top customer service, assist visiting companies from around the globe.

For more info on what's involved and how to apply check out the info on our website here.

Save Ukranian Grannies
chutpomahat.cz

'Abandoned grandmothers live in the combat zone of eastern Ukraine. In winter, they literally fight for survival. They had no one before. Now, thanks to you, we warm their homes and hearts! Chuť pomáhat - Teplo frontovým babičkám' (A Desire to Help - Heating for the Battlefront Grannies) - English version of the website now available.

chutpomahat.cz

Forward

A reminder of how our fundraising appeal started:

A note from the Director (5.9.2022 newsletter):

It has been in incredibly challenging two years for all of us.

For us here at Prague Fringe too.

Bluntly put, the 21st year of Prague Fringe may well be the last.

We have worked hard over the last two decades to bring a quality, fun event to you which had blossomed into an extremely well attended, globally recognised and highly praised festival both here in the Czech republic as well as across the world. We carried on bravely during the pandemic and created some unique events - the Fringe hug from near and far was palpable.

Our upcoming September Fringe will be an exciting and vibrant one, with a multi award-winning programme we expect sales will be strong. Going forward into 2023 is the challenge. With the loss of a major partner at the start of the year it shook the foundations of the organisation quite significantly.

We are urging our biggest fans (that's you!) to consider becoming Friends, Best Friends, or Fringe Angels to help us keep our Fringe alive and carry forward into 2023.

Best regards and long live Fringe!

Steve Gove

Founder and Director