In 2020, Fringe are going all in on you. Artists, your tenacity astounds, your luminosity inspires, your insight leads. You are the architects of the next decade. In a world where we’re forced to dream of functionality, it’s time to find the function in dreams. We trust your visions, and we’ve stockpiled for their realisation. We need seers and smiths of all kinds: Radicals, tell us what the beginning looks like. Thinkers, take us beyond the real. Designers, show us what you see. Messers, keep her lit. You prophesise, we’ll strategise.

Burn it down or build it, it’s utopia or bust.

Utopias aren’t found, they’re built. Unfurl the blueprints and craft yours: tiny and mighty, cavernous and breath-taking, raucous and filthy, discordant and curious, glittering and gentle. Utopias are multitudinous, each one a portal to limitless potential. Overwhelm us. Dissolve boundaries and find strength in variance. Hard hats and hard graft – we’ll all chip in. It isn’t easy, but it is possible. Let solidarity be your scaffold.

Bring us uprisings. Take a sledgehammer to hegemonies and make space for what’s next. Act up, act out, unify – join the heroes who’ve been at it for decades. Fight for the future, amplify empathy and practice radical kindness. Let’s occupy space, digital, cultural, concrete; pervade the far channels of the dark web, rewrite mythologies and reimagine the city together. Don’t worry about the blackouts or blank spaces left behind – we’ll follow the torchlight of your undeniable ideas.

Dublin Fringe Festival is sending out a homing signal for visionaries, hustlers, experts, virtuosos, whizz-kids, master craftswomen, high nerds, deep weirdos, rabble-rousers, soft boys, cynics, soothsayers, craic czars, prinxes, culchie queens, messy bitches, bog witches and big mouths everywhere. Make it homegrown, make it beautiful, make it right now.

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