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X-WR-CALNAME:PortFringe - Maine's Fringe Festival - Opening Night Party
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SUMMARY:PortFringe - Maine's Fringe Festival - Opening Night Party
DESCRIPTION:Six days\, 70 experimental performances across Portland's Ea
 st Bayside\nPORTLAND\, Maine — The tenth annual PortFringe theater fes
 tival will take place June 13-18\, 2022\, featuring roughly 70 genre-def
 ying performances at venues around Portland's East Bayside.\n\nJoin us f
 or our Opening Night party on June 13th at Belleflower Brewing Company\,
  6:00pm.\n\nFor full festival information\, head over to www.portfringe.
 com\n\nThe festival\, a high-energy celebration of performing arts run e
 ntirely by volunteers\, was founded in 2012 and has grown steadily since
  its inception. “Our 2020 festival was a casualty of the pandemic and 
 although the 2021 filmed festival brought forth innovation and creativit
 y\, we are thrilled to be funkin’ up the streets yet again” said Mac
 kenzie O’Connor\, marketing\nvolunteer. For their 10th year\, Fringe i
 s refreshing its festival with a few nifty changes\, one of which is thi
 s big location move. “The welcoming neighborhood of East Bayside is fi
 lled to the brim with innovation and creativity and we wanted to bring o
 ur festival into the heart of that\nexcitement. The quirky pop-up stages
  will remain highly walkable\, making it even easier for our community t
 o access great art.”\n\nThe PortFringe 2022 lineup was designed with v
 ariety in mind. This year\, PortFringe is going back to their roots with
  short-format performance work. With just one ticket\, you will be able 
 to see three different 15-20 minute performances of music\, dance\, come
 dy\, burlesque\, sketch\, theater\, puppetry\, film or something indescr
 ibable. Additionally\, each night of the week\nPortFringe will be featur
 ing a must-see late show. PortFringe showtimes are staggered\, encouragi
 ng attendees to take in as much of the fun as they can\, and maybe grab 
 a beverage between acts.\n\n“PortFringe is Portland's best kept secret
  — but those are the famous last words of any city's secrets\,” said
  Stacey Koloski\, a founding PortFringe committee member. “This year�
 �s festival showcases an enormous number of local performances\, hidden 
 in yarn shops\, breweries\, warehouses\, and historic buildings. Plus\, 
 all the proceeds go back to the artists\, which is\nrelatively unheard o
 f. At a time when it's harder and harder for artists to afford to create
  experimental work\, PortFringe provides an accessible platform specific
 ally for challenging or non-mainstream performance. We encourage grit\, 
 risk\, and sweat — because we believe there is art in risk taking\; it
 's Fringe."\n\nPortFringe 2022 venues are PortFiber (50 Cove Street)\; G
 oodfire Brewing Co. (219 Anderson Street)\; Maine Studio Works (170 Ande
 rson Street)\; and Three of Strong (35B Diamond Street). PortFringe’s 
 Central location is located at Belleflower Brewing Company (66 Cove Stre
 et).
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LOCATION:66 Cove St.\, Portland\,  Maine  US
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