“Light Up the Stage”

Artist in Residence for the 2022 Fringe Festival

About the project:

Kelsey Ford is once again excited to be an Artist in Residence for the 25th Street Theatre’s 2022 Fringe Festival! This year Kelsey will be leading a collaborative community art installation project titled “Light Up the Stage” which was commissioned by the Fringe Festival. The Fringe and Kelsey have partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Saskatoon, École Victoria School, Saskatoon Open Door Society and Saskatchewan Intercultural Association to host workshops and create small parts of a larger installation that will be on display at this year’s festival.

“Light Up the Stage” is inspired by the main attraction at the Fringe festival; Live Theatre! Using lighting gels, which are coloured, translucent sheets of thin plastic used to change the colour of spotlights on a stage, Kelsey and different community organizations will make flowers. These flowers will be hung up at the festival allowing the sun the pass through them and light up the ground that attendees are walking on in different vibrant colours.

This year’s Fringe Festival will take place from July 28th to August 6th, 2022. Come visit Kelsey at her booth behind Victoria School during the Fringe to make a flower window sticker! She’ll be there weekdays 6pm - 8pm and weekends 2pm - 8pm.

Fringe Info Here

Thank you!

Special thanks to all four of our participating community organizations!

Project Sponsors

Thank you to the following organizations for sponsoring the project financially or in-kind!

The Macramé Leaf Project:

Artist in Residence for the 2021 Fringe Festival

About the project:

For the 2021 Fringe Festival, Artistic and Executive Director of the 25th Street Theatre, Anita Smith, contacted Kelsey Ford looking for an accessible and collaborative project that Fringe Festival attendees could participate in. The theme of the project is “Community” and reuniting our local Saskatoon community together after the Covid-19 isolations over the past year and a half. Kelsey took the simple macramé concept of a leaf, and held 15 workshops prior to the Fringe Festival to create a number of leaves that would later become a tree installation throughout the festival site. These workshops included SCYAP, Saskatchewan Intercultural Association, Brunskill School, Saskatoon Open Door Society, Sherbrooke Community Centre and Princess Alexandra Community School. More than 500 macramé leaves were made during these workshops and have been used to create the first of the Community Tree’s at the Fringe.

Kelsey will be on site at the Fringe Festival everyday so that you can make a macramé leaf of your very own! As more leaves are made throughout the Fringe Festival, more “Community Trees” will appear, filled with individual macramé leaves which are created by anyone who attends the Fringe festival. Each leaf will be handmade by a person to create the larger “Community Tree”, reminding us that we are all individual pieces of something bigger than ourselves in a space we all share.

Artist Andrei Feheregyhazi is also an Artist in Residence for the 2021 Fringe Festival. He has partnered with OUT Saskatoon, International Women of Saskatoon, Core Neighbourhood Youth Co-op and Future Artistic Minds to bring 3 Augmented Reality artworks to the Fringe Festival which can be seen by downloading and using his app, Brella Bot AR and finding the banners with the artwork on the festival site.

You can find the links to Andrei’s Augmented Reality App and more project information at our LinkTree here: https://linktr.ee/FringeArtistsInResidence