New Website Feature: Offers

By now, I hope many of you have had the chance to check out our website.

While mulling over our festival model, we obviously needed to make some decisions. One decision was to embrace the original spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, enabling venues to act independently to provide participants with maximum flexibility when choosing a home for their project. Obviously, this model has pluses and minuses, one of the biggest minuses being the extra effort required to find a venue for your project. We have taken special efforts to make this process as easy and fun as possible.

The initial release of the website last week included a feature to “apply to venues” that have already signed on with the Fringe. Today, we released a new website feature to enable communication the other way: From venues to projects.

Venues can now make offers on your Fringe projects and include details on rental prices, box office splits, and more. Projects can then weigh their options and choose a venue that best fits their goals – artistically and financially.

If you are a project owner, kick-off the process by applying to venues that look interesting to you. Pay attention to venue capacity, pictures, videos, location, and anything else relevant to the production of your project. Over time offers will start coming in. When you are ready, contact the venues that have sent you offers, and if interested, sign a contract with them. Note that many venues won’t start making decisions on programming for a couple months; stay patient, stay vigilant.

Once you have a signed contract (highly recommended), come back to the Fringe website and accept the offer. This will kick-off the final stage of registration: Registering with the festival itself. This will provide you with all the benefits of participation.

Still haven’t created a project? Do so here and join the fun – it’s free and without obligation.

Remember: The Fringe charges $200 for registration – this does NOT include the money you might need to spend on your venue deal. This can range from $0 to $150+ per performance depending on the venue and the offer you accept. Expect an article soon detailing your costs as a participant so you can plan accordingly.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected].

Thanks to all you wonderful people that have registered thus far…this is going to be an exciting experience for all.

Regards,

Ben