Are you ready to burst out of the bubble and dive headfirst into the extraordinary Amsterdam Fringe Festival? We are on the lookout for enthustiastic volunteers to make Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2023, taking place September 7th to 17th, yet another unforgettable experience.
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amsterdam Fringe festival
7-17 September 2023
7-17 September 2023
11 days, 30 locations and such 250 shows!
Amsterdam Fringe Festival presents a mix mash of theatre, performance art & dance by new, upcoming and untamed talent each year in September.
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Fringe award winners on tour
From Oerol Festival to Hollywood Fringe, you can see the Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2022 award winners all over the world with their performance the coming period.
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fringe awards
about the fringe awards
Amsterdam Fringe Festival only knows winners! But some performances win something extra.
Our jury of professionals sees every show during the festival and chooses a couple of best performances. Three shows win the ‘Best of Fringe Award’ and do not only get the honor and a spot at the next AFF, but also extra spots at other festivals to play their show. One show wins the ‘International Bursery’, which gives the opportunity to play at Fringe festival abroad.
After the festival artists, who would like to improve their performance, can sign up for the ‘Next Best Fringe Award’. Two of them win the award and get the chance to have a residency and get a place to play the improved show.
Winners of the awards in 2022 are:
- Best of Fringe: Goodbye Erdogan door Betal Özay, Irma door Eva Bartels & FR/AGILE door Liam McCall
- International Bursary: Lipsync Theatre: How 2 Prepare 4 Love door Indie Nile
- Next Best Fringe Award: UIT|EEN|VAL door Rosanna Ter Steege en Yassine Belghanch & People Are Awful door Joseph
our story
our story
Amsterdam Fringe Festival shows a mixmash of theatre, performance and dance from new, emerging and untamed talent for 11 days every September.
We present a multidisciplinary programme of over 60 artists, from diverse backgrounds, origins and futures.
Our showcase festival is a haven for experimentation and provides a stage for new creators and stories. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is an ode to theatrical madness, the independent spirit and a plea for artistic freedom. A thick, intimate embrace of experimentation in the truest sense of the word: one whose outcome may yet truly surprise you.
The whole city is our playground; from rooftop to club to theatre, from North to South, you'll find us for 11 days at some 30 locations all over Amsterdam.
open call
The Amsterdam Fringe Festival works with an open call system. You can subscribe from mid-December until the end of January. In February and March, the Fringe team will make a selection.
Check our website and socials for updates on how to subscribe!
fringe festivals
From Deldi to Delft, from Hollywood to Istanbul; Fringe is everywhere! There are more than 250 Fringe festivals in the world.
Although they all have their own artistic way, all Fringe festivals give space for new artistic encounters, cross-overs, experiment and genres.
This year, 2023, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival will turn 18 years! In 2005, the festival started at the fringes of Amsterdam, under the wings of the Netherlands Theatre Festival.
Nowadays, Amsterdam Fringe Festival is known for it's open call system and the thorough way we guide the artists with workshops and coaching.
creators.
world fringe
World Fringe is an initiative of the following Fringe festivals: Grahamstown, Hollywood, New York, Adelaide, Perth, Prague, Brighton, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. Together we reach millions of people en we create new opportunities for artists, public and sponsors.
The festivals work together in exchanging ‘Best Of Fringe’ shows, to create more opportunities for artists to perform internationally.
Since 2009, Amsterdam Fringe has exchanged with Brighton, Hollywood, South Africa, New York, Prague, Dublin, Edinburgh, Istanbul and Grahamstown Fringe.
Partners & Sponsoren
ONZE BEGUNSTIGERS
Veel dank aan:
- Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
- Fonds Podiumkunsten
- Stichting Dioraphte
- De Versterking
- Stichting Janivo
- VSB Fonds
ONZE SPONSORS EN PARTNERS
Veel dank aan:
- Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond
- Bijlmer Parktheater
- Brighton Fringe Festival
- Boring Festival / Klein Haarlem
- CJP
- Gaudeamus
- Het Huis Utrecht
- ICK Amsterdam
- Lisa van Kleef (campagne & design)
- Meervaart Theater
- Nederlands Theater Festival
- The Student Hotel
- Voordekunst
- Voor/de/mensen
- We Are Public
- World Fringe
MET SPECIALE DANK AAN
- Bram de Jaeger
- Alle locatiepartners van het festival
- De leden van de Fringe jury
- Onze ‘recommended by’ partners: Poetry Circle Nowhere, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Bijlmer Parktheater, Rightaboutnow Inc.
- Alle vrijwilligers!
- Iedereen die gedoneerd heeft bij het kopen van een kaartje of ons ondersteund heeft via Support Fringe
contact contact contact
Amsterdam Fringe Festival
For general questions: info@amsterdamfringe.nl
Questions regarding tickets: tickets@amsterdamfringe.nl
Press: nadieh@amsterdamfringe.nl
mail address
Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Postbus 3985
1001 AT Amsterdam
office
Rombout Hogerbeetsstraat 109
1052 VW Amsterdam
General
info@amsterdamfringe.nl
Business
zakelijk@amsterdamfringe.nl
Communication
communicatie@amsterdamfringe.nl
Volunteers
volunteers@amsterdamfringe.nl
who's who
Farnoosh Farnia
Festival Director
farnoosh@amsterdamfringe.nl
Ina de Boer
Business Manager
ina@tf.nl
Tyrone Soe-Agnie
Festival Producer
tyrone@amsterdamfringe.nl
Nadieh Bindels
Senior Marketeer
nadieh@amsterdamfringe.nl
Willem van Rossum
Creative Producer for artists
willem@amsterdamfringe.nl
Sarah Marshall-Wever
Volunteers coordinator
sarah@amsterdamfringe.nl
Gido Broers
Coordinator Box Office
gidobroers@amsterdamfringe.nl
Jake Lefebvre
Marketing & Ticketing
jake@amsterdamfringe.nl
Sob Mutiara de Geus
Content Marketeer
sob@amsterdamfringe.nl
Eva van der Weerd
Coördinator Arts Industry Office
evavanderweerd@amsterdamfringe.nl
Julius Stahlie
Assistent producer julius@amsterdamfringe.nl
AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL IS PART OF STICHTING DE THEATERDAGEN
Tobias Kokkelmans
General Director Stichting de Theaterdagen & Dutch Theater Festival
Advisory Board
Fred Boot – chairman
Rubina Boasman
Jeroen Bartelse
Nicolien Luttels
Angelique Finkers
Stichting De Theaterdagen has an ANBI status for donations
KvK: 34236073
VAT number: NL8150.43.156.B.01