Pittsburgh Fringe Festival Receives Sprout Fund’s Seed Award!

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Pittsburgh, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) —  Pittsburgh Fringe Festival is proud to announce that the organization is a recipient of a 2014 Sprout Seed Award. This generous grant helps to fund the Fringe’s 24 theatrical performances in more than three Shadyside venues this coming May. Since 2001, The Sprout Fund has been offering financial awards in the amount of $500 to $10,000 to support new projects that could impact the Pittsburgh region in a profound way. The May festival is only the beginning of what the Fringe plans to do to provide opportunities for adventurous artists in the Pittsburgh community. For up-to-date information on the May festival, interested parties are encouraged to visit our newly designed website for tickets, information and more: www.pghfringe.org.About The Sprout Fund

The Sprout Fund enriches the Pittsburgh region’s vitality by engaging citizens, amplifying voices, supporting creativity and innovation, and cultivating connected communities. Founded in 2001, Sprout facilitates community-led solutions to regional challenges and supports efforts to create a thriving, progressive, and culturally diverse region. With strong working relationships to many community organizations and regional stakeholders, The Sprout Fund is one of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s leading agencies on issues related to civic engagement, talent attraction and retention, public art, and catalytic small-scale funding. Learn more and get involved at www.sproutfund.org.

About Pittsburgh Fringe Festival

Pittsburgh Fringe Festival supports adventurous and exploratory performing artists by showcasing their uncensored artistic expression in a professional environment to equally as adventurous audiences and opportunities. We further seek to enhance this connection through performances, continuing education, workshops, discussions, and forums.

Modeled after the original Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest arts festival in the world, Pittsburgh Fringe Festival promises to be the most engaging, electric, and exciting arts festival in Western Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit www.pghfringe.org, www.facebook.com/pghfringe, and https://twitter.com/pghfringe.

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