Bergen Fringe Festival, Kong Christian Fredriks plass 4, Bergen (2026)

Bergen Fringe Festival is an international festival, held annually for both the professional and the voluntary performing arts fields. Bergen Fringe Festivals core desire is to add an exciting and new international energy to the field locally and nationally, offering local and national production companies an international arena, as well as distribution through a close relationship with the intern

ational Fringe network. Fringe is a term associated with as many as 250 festivals around the world, which defines a unique structure and distinctive setting, while harbouring very open artistic content. Fringe is an international movement, which offers unrestricted opportunities for expression, and through this spirit, it gives a certain freedom of expression and variety of experience that you rarely get at other festivals. Fringe is much less curated and programmed than other performing arts festivals. The festival’s program defines itself by having the artists and companies themselves announce their interest in participating. The program is then created by a program committee consisting of various professionals within the performing arts environment. The program is put together after a professional assessment of the applications that come in from artists and companies. Fringe can present an artistic offering that is free from any commercial influence, one that also captures the innovative currents that are relevant at any given time, precisely by facilitating an attractive display arena, with a relatively low participation threshold. The festival offers artists a platform for artistic exploration and experimentation by opening up for productions in a smaller format.

11/07/2026

🎉 Gratulerer med World Fringe Day! 🌍🎭

I dag feirer vi den globale Fringe-bevegelsen – alle de modige kunstnerne, festivalene, frivillige, publikum og lokalsamfunnene som gjør Fringe til noe helt unikt.

Fra Bergen sender vi en ekstra stor hilsen, og gleder oss allerede til å bygge videre på Fringe-fellesskapet når Bergen Fringe Festival vender tilbake. 💙

Fringe i tall:
🌍 Over 30 millioner publikummere
🎭 Mer enn 170 000 utøvere
🎪 Over 60 000 gratis- og billettlagte arrangementer
🎟️ Mer enn 8 millioner billetter solgt
🏛️ Over 6 000 scener verden over

Happy World Fringe Day! Her er det plass til nye stemmer, modige idéer og scenekunst uten grenser. 💫

04/06/2026

🎭 Bergen Fringe Festival 2027 is now open for applications!

We’re excited to invite artists, companies, musicians, writers, and creative performers from around the world to apply for the 2027 edition of Bergen Fringe Festival, taking place September 2–5, 2027.

This year’s theme is COMMUNITY, and we’re looking for bold, original, and interdisciplinary projects that bring people together, challenge conventions, and create meaningful encounters.

Application deadline: June 15, 2026

Please feel free to share this with your networks, artists, and collaborators.

We’d love to see what you’re working on!

13/05/2026

OPEN CALL: Bergen Fringe Festival 2027!

Bergen Fringe Festival – En feiring av kunstnerisk frihet og tverrfaglig eksperimentering – arrangeres for åttende gang 2.-5. september 2027.

Nå inviterer vi kunstnere, kompanier, musikere og kreative utøvere til å søke om plass i programmet for 2027. Norges eldste Fringe-festival er et tverrfaglig knutepunkt der scenekunst, musikk, visuell kunst og litteratur forenes og det profesjonelle møter det eksperimentelle, og der veien fra idé til scene er kort.

I 2027 er vårt overordnede tema FELLESSKAP. Vi søker prosjekter som tør å bryte den fjerde veggen, som utfordrer tradisjonelle formater og som inviterer publikum inn i varmen.

Frist for å sende inn forslag til programmet er 15. juni 2026.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5lOECy07PyAfMcVMYH6ziScFYoy4qnlwGksmqy58una1P5A/viewform

ENGLISH:
Bergen Fringe Festival – a celebration of artistic freedom and interdisciplinary experimentation – returns for its eighth edition from September 2nd to 5th, 2027.
We are now inviting artists, companies, musicians, and creative performers to apply for a spot in our 2027 program.

As Norway’s oldest Fringe festival, we serve as a hub where performing arts, music, visual arts, and literature unite. We are a place where the professional meets the experimental, and the path from idea to stage is short.

In 2027, we are celebrating COMMUNITY. We’re looking for bold projects that jump off the stage, break down the barriers, toss out the rulebook, and bring everyone together in the heat of the moment.

Deadline for submitting an application is June 15th 2026.
Cornerteateret Vestlandske Teatersenter Proscen

NORSK/DANSK/SVENSK: Fyll ut skjemaet på ditt skandinaviske språk. Frist for å sende inn forslag er 15. juni 2026. Komiteen går gjennom alle søknader og du vil bli kontaktet innen juli dersom prosjektet er aktuelt. ENGLISH: Please fill out the form in english. The deadline for submitting proposa...

Adresse

Kong Christian Fredriks Plass 4
Bergen
5006

Nettsted

https://www.bergenfringe.no/

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