How your support helps
Support underserved artists
Your support of the fringe will provide performance opportunities and exposure for traditionally underserved artistic communities right here in your city.
Build relationships
The fringe will give you and your business opportunities to engage with artists, organizers, other sponsors, and businesses with whom you might not otherwise connect.
Set the foundation
The fringe has a vision of becoming a long-term, annual arts event in the Midstate. Your support will help shape and grow the event for future years.
Reach new customers
The fringe will be promoted across all areas of the Midstate in general and throughout Harrisburg in particular, raising your visibility to thousands of existing and potential customers.
How your support helps
Tech Support Donors $300 – $999
pays for the festival to hire local professional stage managers, lighting designers, & audio technicians, plus festival program listing
Artist Support Donors $150 – $299
pays for artist’s application fees, allowing us to scholarship artists in need for full festival access, plus festival program listing
Fringe Support Donors $1 – $149
pays for festival affiliated costs like marketing & admin,
plus festival program listing
Why Harrisburg?
Pennsylvania’s Midstate plays home to a rich, active, and varied community of arts and artists. The Harrisburg Fringe Festival Committee sees an opportunity to elevate the arts in Harrisburg/Central PA by giving artists of all stripes the resources and venues they need to connect with audiences in a spirit of community celebration.
What are fringe festivals?
They’re an international tradition in the arts community that can be found in thousands of locations around the world. To the best of their ability, all fringe festivals:
Present performance opportunities
for anyone willing to produce a piece of art
Make space for all arts,
and strive to foster inclusivity and diversity
Offer an uncensored artistic experience
with clearly defined offerings for all
Give 100% of a production’s ticket revenues back
to the artists that created it