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The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe present sixteen days of performing arts events each year beginning on the Labor Day holiday weekend. Originally founded in 1997 as the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in 2004 the organization repositioned its two programming segments as two separate, distinct, concurrent festivals. The Live Arts Festival features selected cutting-edge, boundary-breaking performing arts events, created by some of the most renowned contemporary artists from our region and around the world. The Philly Fringe - which provides opportunities for any artist, independent of a selection process, to self-produce their work - represents the true international "Fringe" movement. Through these two festivals, the organization currently presents the creative works of more than 1000 artists annually. Hundreds of performances take place in diverse venues: traditional theaters, backseats of cars, warehouses and parking lots. The wide spectrum of artistic expression includes avant-garde adaptations, ballet, cabaret, clowning, experimental theater, modern dance, new music, performance art, site-specific performances, street theater and many others. To mount the festivals the organization builds relationships with a wide variety of communities to insure that audiences as well as the resource base and talent base continue to grow.