The Fringe Returns June 2026!
A festival of performing arts inviting you to discover the raw, beautiful, and unexpected. Read the announcement –>
The Fringe will take place June 2026 – festival dates, timeline, and more to be announced soon.
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The Fringe creates space for artists with bold creativity—professionals and amateurs alike—to share their art, inviting our community to experience the raw, the beautiful, and the unexpected.
A platform for performance artists to share their work without barriers – unjuried and uncensored.
FoCo Fringe is a multi-day festival for performing artists with bold creativity – professionals and amateurs alike – to share their art, inviting our community to experience the raw, the beautiful, and the unexpected.
Launched in 2013 as part of the global movement, the fringe grew bigger and better year-after-year until 2020, when the festival was put on hold due to the Covid pandemic. The Fringe will return in June 2026 under new leadership. Learn more –>
Performance
Bold, original, uncensored art that pushes boundaries and takes risks
Access
Affordable tickets, diverse venues, and open doors for all artists and audiences
Community
Building connections between artists, neighbors, and Fort Collins’ cultural fabric
Performance Off the Beaten Path since 2013
The most recent Fort Collins Fringe Festival in 2019 was a massive success, with broad and deep artist and audience participation, happy venue hosts, and award-winning performances. The Fringe successfully reached a broader audience, attracting more local, regional and national interest, and engaging the local performing arts community. Thank you to all the artists and audience members who made Fringe possible.
3,100+ tickets sold and 1,200+ audience members attending
Audiences experienced rapid-fire, back-to-back, diverse theatrical pieces, totaling over 100 performances, including special late-night shows, after-parties and a Free Family Fringe.
$15k+
paid to Artists
Ticket sales are shared directly with artists and performers.
4+
Days
Fringe artists and audiences spent entertainment dollars on hotels, restaurants, bars, and more during the four-day Festival.
Over 100 performances across 7 venues with 220 artists participating
Theatre, dance, film, clown, circus, magician, musician, and spoken word artists presented their performance art.
Partners of the 2019 FoCo Fringe
Thank you to the venues and partners who made the Fringe a tremendous success.
Artists and creatives face too many barriers to presenting their work.
It’s a struggle to present performance art, especially for new artists and those seeking to try something new. Venues are costly, audiences are hard to attract, and ideas need testing before going “all-in.”
The Fringe removes as many barriers as possible for performance artists to share their work – arranging venues in advance, streamlining production services, and attracting audiences.
