Applications for our 25th festival are open until
Our collab with Asheville Community Theatre
We’ll be presenting Fringey shows @ 35below throughout 2026!
June 19-20
August 14-15
November 13-14
35 N Walnut, Downtown Asheville
$22 including all taxes & fees
July 13, 6-8pm @ DayTrip
September 21, 6-8pm @ Haiku
2026 was the 24th year of the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.
Asheville Fringe Society
The Asheville Fringe Society is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to producing innovative, boundary-pushing work in Asheville, North Carolina. AFS produces the annual Asheville Fringe Arts Festival in March, as well as individual artist-driven projects throughout the year.
OUR MISSION
The Asheville Fringe Society is dedicated to cultivating strange and wonderful work that lies outside the mainstream. The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Our continual goal is to curate experiences that expand the minds and hearts of our audiences and to be inclusive of artists who work within a myriad of genres, styles, and forms to create truly unique and original pieces in our community.
Board Members
Jim Julien, Erinn Hartley, Jenni Cockrell, Morgan Biessert, Jennifer Murphy, Jennifer Bennett, and Beth Starling
