Beverly On The 'Fringe' With New Downtown Cultural Festival

BEVERLY, MA — A new two-week arts festival is ongoing in Beverly with performances and art installations scheduled for venues across the city’s Cultural District through June 20.

The Beverly Fringe Festival is organized by Great Bear Arts and Montserrat College of Art in collaboration with Beverly Main Streets, The Cabot, artists of The Bower and Beverly's wider creative community.

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Beverly Fringe is an open-access arts festival designed to bring live performance and art into everyday downtown spaces. The event is inspired by fringe festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe, and is centered on openness, experimentation and accessibility rather than large-scale productions.

In addition to theater, the event makes room for dance, puppetry, spoken word, music, comedy, film, animation, digital arts, and visual or installation work.

Beverly was chosen for the festival because of its existing arts community and concentration of cultural venues.

Event will involve Montserrat College of Art, The Cabot, The Larcom, Off-Cabot, Chianti Jazz Lounge, independent galleries and Main Street businesses as part of the city's creative landscape.

Programs include small-cast plays and solo shows with minimal sets, immersive or site-responsive pieces, experimental theater, performance art, dance, puppetry, comedy, storytelling, cabaret, film screenings, animation programs, digital media pieces and installation work.

There will also be a special performance from Bar(d) Crawl at Gentile Brewing on Friday.

More information and tickets to events can be found here.