Talk:Free Fringe

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The importance of the Laughing Horse Free Festival and PBH Free Fringe cannot be understated at Edinburgh Fringe... and therefore on Wikipedia. C Venues is just another collection of venues with the same business model that puts artists into debt. However the Free Festival and Free Fringe are challenging this traditional model in order to give artists and the public an alternative. See Harry Deansway's article about how much the traditional model costs performers

The importance of Free

The Free Venues give artists an alternative that is not as costly. For a long time Free Venues were seen as second rate. Artists felt that they could not get reviewed unless they did a paid show. However this is becoming less and less the case and Imran Yusuf's Fosters award for Best Newcomer in a free venue is really ground breaking. 

There are also large differences between Laughing Horse Free Festival and PBH Free Festival which are growing to provide two distinct opportunities to performers. PBH is a purist who feels the Free Venues should be run as a collective with everyone putting in an equal amount of work for the good of the group. Laughing Horse's approach is more commercial and aims to find an alternative business model which is economically sustainable but is a much cheaper option for punters and performers. This difference means that Laughing Horse is able to provide more support in terms of PR and marketing for performers, something which is set to grow. Laughing Horse is not adverse to sponsorship and just missed out on a large deal for this years event  comment added by Bobslayer (talk) 12:29, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above comments were also posted at User talk:ColinFine, and I responded to them there on 24 September. Bobslayer has not altered the article since. --ColinFine (talk) 10:11, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

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