WHAT IS MILANO OFF FRINGE 

The Milano Off Fringe Festival is a celebration of Off theater and performing arts; a Festival not just in the city, but of the city. The festival aims to achieve the maximum involvement of Milan's cultural fabric, as an artistic project that increases territorial marketing, and non-seasonal tourism.

The mission of MI OFF has stayed the same since its inception in 2016: increase the Gross Domestic Happiness (FIL).

FIL for our audience: to explore the city feeling like a tourist, and to take advantage of a unique opportunity to discover a vast array of artistic proposals.

FIL for our artists: to make direct contact with the Milanese audience, international industry members, fellow artists, and local students; to move towards a path of international growth.

The idea of creating a Fringe Festival comes from Francesca Vitale and Renato Lombardo. It arose from an agreement signed in 2015 with then-OFF D'AVIGNON Festival-president Greg Germain, in order to create a twin Festival in Milan ("Milano OFF") that would adopt the Avignon festival model, including all of its collateral events such as Focus panels and professional courses for artists.

Over time, relationships and partnerships were established with Fringes around the world - Adelaide, Orlando, Hollywood, New York, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Edinburgh - and Milano Off became a lasting part of the World Fringe Community.

THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE FESTIVAL 

MILANO IN - Milano Off will officially open in a prestigious and emblematic space of Milanese culture, where, in the presence of the “Testimonial” speakers, the 2024 festival and selected artists from all over the world take part in it will be presented to the city.

MILANO OFF FRINGE - Professional companies from all over Italy and abroad, after being selected by a panel of experts, will fill the city with shows in a vast array of artistic genres and in different languages, performing in the various locations of the Festival.

VILLAGE OFF - The Village is the center and heart of the Festival; a meeting point for artists, industry professionals, and audiences, as well as a place for exhibitions, meetings and focus panels and much more.

OFF-OFF MILANO - The most atypical part of our festival. Numerous events will be distributed in the different participating spaces around the city. Book presentations, mini-conferences on the themes and topics of the fringe performances,project presentations, ideas, exhibitions, concerts... A real journey through the archipelago of the "islands'' of theater and culture.