Dublin Fringe Festival Launches New 5 Year Strategy

This year, we wrote a new strategy for Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 – 2026. As always at Dublin Fringe Festival, artists are our compass. We consulted with them as part of the devising process, eager to hear their views about the festival and their priorities for its future. We also sought the opinion of our intrepid audiences and industry heroes at home and abroad as part of a programme of consultation. We relished the opportunity to hear the views of others, to review and reflect on what we do and how we do it. Their insights have directly shaped our thinking and emboldened our choices for the future.

A spirit of experimentation, fairness, joy and disruption will continue to infuse our work with our network of funding partners and collaborators and with the artists who inspire us. That same spirit will seed and cultivate the relationship we want to have with curious audiences. As we considered our values, five unassailable beliefs and attributes emerged, powerful and true.

The process to develop this strategy was a welcome opportunity to think long-term and to greet our renewing world with optimism and ambition - for artists, for Dublin and for the myriad cultural futures that unfurl at Dublin Fringe Festival. The resulting 5-year strategy will bring us through to 2026 with a clear defined purpose and objectives. We look forward to advancing our ambitions for the festival, for artists and artforms, and for audiences and to strengthening our capacity as an organisation to deliver on these ambitions.

We hope that by achieving the goals set out in this strategy, Dublin Fringe Festival will make sure that the artists and staff who turn those dreams into realities are doing so in an increasingly kind, resourced and sustainable context.

Many thanks to Janice McAdam who created the strategy with us, and to our board and team for their dedication to the future of Dublin Fringe Festival.