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Edinburgh Fringe Festival - $50

Item Number: 2138

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This coming August, fifteen OHS students will make their way to Edinburgh, Scotland to perform Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphosis, a production they have been working for the entire school year.

The OHS Drama program was nominated and thereafter selected to participate in the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, taking place in Scotland on August 5-29, 2016. This is a huge honor!!!

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city.

Every year thousands of performers take to hundreds of stages all over Edinburgh to present shows for every taste. From big names in the world of entertainment to unknown artists looking to build their careers, the festival caters for everyone and includes theatre, comedy, dance, physical theatre, circus, cabaret, children's shows, musicals, opera, music, spoken word, exhibitions and events.

The Fringe story dates back to 1947, when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to perform at the (then newly formed) Edinburgh International Festival, an initiative created to celebrate and enrich European cultural life in the wake of the Second World War. Not being part of the official programme of the International Festival didn’t stop these performers – they just went ahead and staged their shows on the ‘Fringe of the Festival’ anyway – coining the phrase and our name ‘(Edinburgh) Festival Fringe’. Year on year more and more performers followed their example and in 1958 the Festival Fringe Society was created in response to the success of this growing trend.

In the unlikely event that sufficient funds are not raised for the Edinburgh Trip, all Edinburgh Trip donations shall be credited to the unrestricted Ossining MATTERS General Fund, in which case the Ossining MATTERS Board shall have discretion over the future direction and use of the Edinburgh Trip donations. By making this donation, the donor understands the terms stated above. BREAK A LEG!!

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Ossining MATTERS is raising funds to help offset the per-student cost to travel to Scotland to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (the “Edinburgh Trip”). All Edinburgh Trip donations made through Ossining MATTERS are tax-deductible. Your Edinburgh Trip donations will be distributed by Ossining MATTERS to the OUFSD after the OUFSD confirms that sufficient funds have been raised to permit the Edinburgh Trip to proceed. Your donations cannot be earmarked for any specific participant(s).

In the unlikely event that sufficient funds are not raised for the Edinburgh Trip, all Edinburgh Trip donations shall be credited to the unrestricted Ossining MATTERS General Fund, in which case the Ossining MATTERS Board shall have discretion over the future direction and use of the Edinburgh Trip donations. By making this donation, the donor understands the terms stated above. BREAK A LEG!!