Income from ticket sales covers only 17% of our annual operating budget - we rely on contributions from sponsors, foundations, and the generosity of exceptional individuals like you to continue to present the best in cutting edge contemporary performance.

There is so much to love about the Festival, from seeing world class artists like France's Jérôme Bel and New York's The Wooster Group, to getting to know Philadelphia-based artists like Headlong Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theatre Company, to exploring 150+ Philly Fringe offerings that run the gamut from puppetry to performance art year after year.

Donations from individuals and corporations go towards the following costs:

• Production budgets, including sets, lights, and sound.
• Supporting local artists' work
• Audience engagement activities
• College student outreach initiatives
• International artists' visas, travel and airfare

"The Festival makes a tremendous contribution to Philadelphia, it is a wonderful opportunity to bring people together. It creates a community."
- Shelley, Festival Supporter

"Live arts/Fringe Festival offers the opportunity to see perhaps new, on the cusp, performances that one may never see other wise."

- Carolyn, Festival Supporter

"I am a supporter because I absolutely love the Live Arts/Fringe Festival and look forward to being a volunteer each year."

- Joan, Festival Supporter

"I am a professional actress and singer and my husband and I are avid theatre supporters. We live in Denver, Colorado. We were so impressed by the quality and variety of events that we have decided to try and get back to Philadelphia to see some of the Fringe."

- Juli, Festival Supporter

"We saw the play "Death of Socrates" this year and enjoyed it. We realized the tickets were very inexpensive and that contributions are what keeps the prices to reasonable levels."

- Gil, Festival Supporter

"With 22 Live Arts performances - half of them international - and a whopping 172 Fringe happenings, there are literally thousands of creative bodies descending on Philadelphia and brightening up our urban spaces."

- Philadelphia City Paper "Crowded House" Carolyn Huckabay. 27 Aug 2008.

"Philadelphia's festival - now among the nation's largest - has dramatically changed the region's artistic ecosystem, giving performers (and set, costume, and light and sound designers) a visible platform"

- Philadelphia Inquirer, "A torrent of creative weirdness" Howard Shapiro. 28 Aug 2009.

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