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Toronto, Ontario - The Toronto Fringe Festival is thrilled to announce the return of Visual Fringe, now in its third year and with more artists than ever before. Located at the heart of the festival, the Fringe Club, Visual Fringe will present the talents and works of 16 Toronto-based artists, including several collectives and performance pieces.
This year we are happy to announce that Visual Fringe will be open for extended hours, until 12:30am every night of the festival. In addition, the entire Fringe Club venue surrounding Honest Ed's will be fully licensed, creating the ambience and atmosphere of a pop-up art market, cultural hub and patio bar.. Our 16 artists will share eight 10' x 10' tents, with a wide range of mediums and presentations spanning the interactive, interesting and intriguing realms of visual and performance art. Below you will find the complete listings of artists and projects that will be presented at this year’s Visual Fringe.
Textiles, Mixed Media, Puppetry or Sculpture
Avarice Unbound - Jeff-Smash Designs: comics, graphic design, illustration and paintings.
Control Over Destiny Jewellery - Jason Chellew, Rebecca Schofield : hand crafted jewellery including necklaces designed especially for the 25th anniversary of the festival.
FREAK BOUTIQUE - Ashley Ann Karas: retro boutique of jewelry, accessories and vintage treasures.
Home Sweet Home - Helen Kotsonis: handmade, unique and personalized home-shaped lanterns
LEFTOVERS - Lisa Carrie Goldberg: handmade jewelry made from biological materials.
Masks & Moodlins - Larry Lubin: caricatured lapel pins and masks.
Myths & Monsters - Eden Bachelder: print, paintings, leather work and masks.
Woven Stone - Katherine Selnak: fibre and crystal art, dream catchers and wall hangings.
Paintings, Fine Art, Photography
FREEDUMB - Majalyn Aquino & Malcom Yarde: acrylics and other mediums creating bright/bold art
Imaginary Legends - Ulises Regalado: prints and photographs including UV paint and Oaxacan content
A midsummer night’s milkshake - Leah Gold & Angel Chen: drawings, prints, conversational interaction about art
Naughty & Nice - Michael Arredondo & Nicole Hillier: acrylics, inks, spray paint and decorated objects
Room 336 Collective: a large collective including digital work, acrylic, print, ink, water colour and collage
Tim Skynz: tattoo and comic inspired mixed media fine art
Performance and Interactive
The Dance Without Pants - The NakedMe Show: an adult-only performance piece dealing with nudity and politics
Socially Acceptable Half-Truths - Steam Powered Theatre: an interactive tent focusing on lies, storytelling, conversation and documenting.
The Visual Fringe is part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, July 3-14, 2013
The Visual Fringe open to the public and is located in the Fringe Club, in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s
(southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst).
The Visual Fringe operates 6:30pm-12:30am Monday and Friday and 4:30pm-12:30am on Saturday and Sunday.
The full Visual Fringe schedule can be found in our 2013 Program Guide, or online at fringetoronto.com/visual-fringe
The Toronto Fringe
Now celebrating its 25th year, the Toronto Fringe provides creative opportunities for artists and audiences by producing two important festivals – the Toronto Fringe Festival and the Next Stage Theatre Festival – and by running outreach activities that benefit youth, artists and the theatre community at large. Our new home, the Fringe Creation Lab, welcomes independent artists year round, encouraging their creative work by offering them affordable space to make art, congregate and innovate. For more information visit www.fringetoronto.com.
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