Open post Chad @chad@mstdn.ca · 4mo ago Brian Paisley, the Man Who Started the Edmonton Fringe and Sparked Fringe Festivals Across North America, Has Died at 79 | Culture Alberta #yeg #yegarts #yegdrama #fringe culturealberta.com Brian Paisley, the Man Who Started the Edmonton Fringe and Sparked Fringe Festivals Across North America, Has Died at 79 | Culture Alberta Brian Paisley launched the Edmonton International Fringe Festival in 1982 with what he called an absurd idea, that anyone could be an artist and tell a story without gatekeepers. It became the first Fringe in North America and the largest outside Edinburgh. He died in Mexico on July 2 at 79, a month before the festival's next season. Edmonton's theatre community called him Father Fringe.
