KEYBANK ROCHESTER FRINGE WILL REQUIRE
COVID-19 VACCINE PROOF FOR INDOOR SHOWS
Rochester, NY – Organizers of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival reiterated today that, with the rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant and corresponding increases in the number of hospitalizations among unvaccinated individuals in New York and throughout the United States, all performers, participants, staff, volunteers, and festival-goers 12 years of age and older will be REQUIRED to show proof that they are FULLY vaccinated in order to attend INDOOR performances and events at the 2021 Fringe (September 14-25). Vaccine status will be checked at the doors to indoor venues.
“Our board of directors remains 100% committed to the safety of all attendees, participants, and employees. We are not messing around with Delta,” says Founding Festival Producer Erica Fee. “As a non-profit organization, we have a duty to serve and to create safe experiences for the community.”
The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival will announce its entire lineup – both in-person and online – and place tickets on sale on August 18.
From its five-day debut in 2012, the 12-day KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival has become one of the fastest-growing and most-attended fringe festivals in the U.S. It is also the largest multidisciplinary performing arts festival in New York State. As a bifurcated festival, it allows for a combination of headline entertainment curated by the non-profit Rochester Fringe Festival as well as an open-access portion based on the 74-year-old Edinburgh Fringe model.
Last year’s Virtual Fringe offered more than 170 online productions, both live-streamed and on-demand, giving artists a platform and connecting audiences throughout our community and beyond. The 2019 Fringe featured more than 650 performances and events – over 200 of them free – in 25+ downtown venues and broke all previous attendance records with more than 100,000 visitors.
Rochester Fringe Festival connects and empowers artists, audiences, venues, educational institutions, and the community to celebrate, explore, and inspire creativity via an annual, multi-genre arts festival. It was pioneered by several of Rochester’s esteemed cultural institutions including Geva Theatre Center, the George Eastman Museum and Garth Fagan Dance; up-and-coming arts groups like PUSH Physical Theatre and Method Machine; and higher-education partners such as the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. The not-for-profit organization’s overarching mission is to provide a platform for artists to share their ideas and develop their skills while also offering unparalleled public access to the arts. It strives to be diverse and inclusive, and to stimulate downtown Rochester both culturally and economically.
2021 sponsors include: KeyBank; New York State Council on the Arts; University of Rochester; National Endowment for the Arts; Rochester Area Community Foundation; Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation; Ames Amzalak Memorial Trust; Nocon & Associates; Waldron Rise; RIT; City of Rochester; County of Monroe; Konar Enterprises; Drs. Dawn and Jacques Lipson Enhancing Life Fund; Mary Mulligan Trust; Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; The Pike Company; Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk Foundation; VisitRochester; Fred & Floy Willmott Foundation; ESL Foundation; Aspire Transformation Services; Big Slide Creative; Hamilton A/V; Cheshire Audio Visual;13WHAM TV; CITY Newspaper; D&C Digital; Nazareth College; St. John Fisher College; WXXI; The Rubens Family Foundation; Hyatt Regency Rochester; McCarthy Tents & Events; Bond Schoeneck & King; Boylan Code; The Harley School; Wegmans; City Blue; and Canandaigua National Bank.
About KeyBank: KeyBank's roots trace back 190 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $176.1 billion at March 31, 2021. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of over 1,000 branches and more than 41,000 KeyBank ATMs and Allpoint surcharge free ATMs for many customers when using a KeyBank debit card nationwide. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is a Member FDIC.
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