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Getting there, getting around, staying and eating in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
for Windsor International Fringe Festival

Windsor Fringe Headquarters
July 17 to July 26, 2009
Terrace 285
285 Ouellette, Windsor, Ontario

View Map: Outlines Festival venues, locations and Parking areas - click here.

By car to Fringe Headquarters:

Highway 401, a major artery that follows the entire southern Ontario coast, has its west termination in Windsor. Take the last exit on the 401, "Bridge to the USA", head towards the bridge and turn right on to Tecumseh Road. Follow Tecumseh Road to Ouellette. Turn left at the intersection of Ouellette and Tecumseh, 13 blocks down to the intersection of University and Ouellette to the Windsor International Fringe Head Quarters.

From the United States:

From the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel from Detroit, turn left on exiting the tunnel to the immediate intersection of Ouellette and Park, turn right on to Ouellette Avenue 1 block to to the Windsor International Fringe Head Quarters.

From the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit, take Wyandotte Street west, to Ouellette Avenue, turn left on Ouellette Avenue, 4 blocks, to the intersection of University and Ouellette. to the Windsor International Fringe Head Quarters.

By bus to Fringe Headquarters:

Windsor International Transit Terminal
300 Chatham Street West, +1-519-254-7577
Station & Ticketing hours: Daily: 7AM-8PM.

The Greyhound terminal situated near the tunnel serves bus traffic. Walk three blocks to Ouellette Avenue, turn right and walk two blocks south to the Fringe Head Quarters.
http://www.greyhound.ca/

By train to Fringe Headquarters:

VIA Rail
298 Walker Road (East of Casino Windsor, on the corner of Riverside Dr. & Walker Rd.), +1-888-842-7245
Ticketing and station hours: M-Su 5:15AM-8PM.

VIA Rail's western end of the Windsor-Quebec City corridor is located here and the Windsor (Walkerville) passenger train station serves those tourists needs. A taxi from the train station to Fringe Headquarters at the centre of the downtown at 285 Ouellette Avenue, should run you around $8.
http://www.viarail.ca/

By air to Fringe Headquarters:

Windsor Airport
3200 County Road 42 (Located off Walker Rd., South of E.C. Row Expressway)
+1-519-969-2430 (fax: +1-519-969-6053)

Windsor Airport is the main terminus for any incoming and outgoing flights, however the airport is much smaller than Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. A taxi from the airport to Fringe Headquarters at the centre of the downtown at 285 Ouellette Avenue, should run you around $17.
http://www.windsorairport.net/

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (Detroit, Michigan, United States of America)
+1-734-247-7678 (M-F 8AM-4PM).

A limo or taxi from the Wayne County Airport to Fringe Headquarters in Downtown Windsor should run you no more than $80 CDN or US.
http://www.metroairport.com/

Assisstance with planning your visit

A number of the downtown Hotels offer discounts for the Windsor International Fringe Festival patrons.

The Fringe Hotline is ready to assist with respect to setting up your customized package for your visit to Windsor at 519.258.9887.

Purchasing your Fringe Button will give you great discounts at a whole host of stores downtown restaurants and eateries pick up your Fringe Button for $3 per person at the Fringe Head Quarters or the Chrysler Theatre Box office.

 

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The Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals is built on four principles:

  1. No Artistic Direction. Artists are selected by ‘first come, first served’.
  2. No Censorship. Artists have complete freedom to present their work.
  3. Accessibility to artists. Anyone can apply to the Fringe.
  4. Accessibility to audience. Ticket prices are kept low and 100% of the ticket price is returned to the artists you see on stage.

For more detailed information, please visit the CAFF home page: www.fringefestivals.com

The Windsor International Fringe Festival was founded in 2007 by Actors Theatre of Windsor (ATW), a not-for-profit professional theatre company.  as part of its community outreach program (ATW Actors Umbrella).

ATW Actors Umbrella's aim in producing the Windsor Fringe is to increase affordable and accessible avenues for professional theatre:

to create opportunities for independent artists to showcase their work;
to grow Windsor’s cultural identity and profile;
to provide a new engine to contribute to the development of the entertainment industry,
Arts & Culture Tourism, and the regional economy.

 

Established in January 2006 Actors Theatre of Windsor ( ATW) is a professional theatre company, who's aim is to develop a viable professional entertainment industry in Southwestern Ontario and Southeastern Michigan.

Co-founded by Mona el Baroudi and Gordon Mackenzie, the public programming of ATW has two core components:

ATW Main Stage, which produces professional theatre and our season of shows paying participating trained actors, and production crew a living wage;

ATW Actors Umbrella, a community outreach program which produces the Windsor International Fringe Festival and WHAT’S ON! ‘The Arts & Culture Calendar of Windsor-Essex in Canada South’.
www.actorstheatreofwindsor.com