Piggyback 2012

We’re the largest fringe festival in the world…per capita!

Piggyback will be 5 years old in June and everyone is invited to our birthday bash!

The 2012 Lottery was held in the Great Hall before the film screening at the annual Wakefield International Film Festival before a crowd of 140 arts lovers. Here is the 2012 line-up:

Why a lottery?
Fringe provides artists and audiences a theatrical experience like no other in the world. Performers apply to fringe festivals around the world and are selected through an unjuried lottery or on a first-come, first served basis. The festival has no control over the artistic content of each performance. The artistic freedom of the participants is unrestrained.

Piggyback is one of 22 member festivals of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF). Another guiding principle of fringe is that 100% of ticket revenues go to the touring artists. This is why volunteers and sponsors are so essential to fringe. It couldn’t happen without them.

We’re very excited to say that we have a new venue – a 150-seat performance space in our brand new Wakefield La Pêche Community Centre. Another main venue is a dynamic church that is also outfitted with theatre sound and lighting with seating for 120.

And we have the infamous Black Sheep, Kaffé 1870 and Café Molo, a wild assortment of eateries, a 280-foot covered bridge over the Gatineau River that runs along the village and a whole lot of enthusiasm for the arts.

Wakefield is just “up the line” (a 25-minute drive) from Ottawa, the nation’s capital. We piggyback onto the Ottawa Fringe. It’s a symbiotic relationship – we work together to make it work for everyone.