City of Edmonton preparing for 42nd Fringe Festival

Portions of Whyte Ave will be shut down as the city is getting ready for the 42nd annual Edmonton Fringe Festival.

The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival is the largest, longest running Fringe Theatre Festival in North America. As an event with international presence, they rank among the top 5 Fringe Festivals in the world alongside Edinburgh, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia.

The vibrant success of the Edmonton Fringe Festival is thanks to the more than 40,000 artists who have bravely taken an artistic risk since they exploded onto the scene in 1982.

Josh Languedoc is a theatre artist from the City of Edmonton and directed a film called “Talk Treaty To Me” the ONLY Indigenous show at the Fringe this year. He joined the Windspeaker Radio Network to describe the process behind the film.

The play explores tensions between the macro consequences of the signing of Treaty 6 and how it manifests in the micro tensions between mixed race friendships. The play is ultimately a comedy, yet has some very serious and tender moments.

With thousands of people attending Fringe this year, Languedoc shared his thoughts on what he hopes people take away from his film after the viewing.