International Windsor Fringe Festival

Fringe Button Discounts

Your Fringe Button is your passport to the Windsor International Fringe Festival. Your Fringe Button will get you into ail theatre venues and a ton of discounts in Downtown Windsor during the festival - wearing your Fringe Button pays! Your Fringe Button is also an important wayto support the production costs ofthe Festival, as 100% of the box office proceeds are returned to the participating artists. Anyone attending a theatre performance will need both a theatre ticket ($9) and a Fringe Button ($3) to admitted to our venues. Kids Fringe requires a one-time Fringe button purchase and is good ail week for 7 days of non-stop fun from July 20 to July 26, 12 noon to 6PM Mon to Thurs & Sundayand Fridayand Saturday night until9 PM at Charles Clark Square.

Windsor Fringe buttons are $3 and will be on sale as ofJune 15, 2009 at the Chrysler Theatre Boxoffice for in person sales only. Theywill also be available for sale at each venue and at the Fringe HQat Terrace 285 (285 OuelletteAvenue, corner UniversityAve) during the festival.

Restaurants

The following Downtown Windsor Restaurants are generously providing discounts and special offers, when presenting your Fringe Button at their establishment during the Fringe Festival:

	Black Kettle Bistro 357 Ouellette 519-252-4333		Bubi's Awesome Eats 620 University Ave W. 519-252-2001
	The Coffee Exchange 266 Ouellette Ave. 519-253-1923		The Drunken Burrito 419 Ouellette Ave. 519-915-6707
	Elias Delicatessen 102-100 Ouellette Ave. 519-256-8166		Mandarin House Restaurant 331 Ouellette Ave. 519-252-6188
	Papa Cheney's Whiskey Well 63 Riverside Dr E. 519-258-1334 0		On the Avenue 430 Ouellette Ave. 519-971-9330
	Shawarma Palace Restaurant 276 Ouellette Ave. 519-254-7531		Subway 300 Ouellette Ave. 519-971-9330
	Vermouth 333 Ouellette Ave. 519-977-6102		The Honest Lawyer 300 Ouellette Ave. 519-977-0599

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

No Artistic Direction. Artists are selected by ‘first come, first served’.
No Censorship. Artists have complete freedom to present their work.
Accessibility to artists. Anyone can apply to the Fringe.
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