Regina Fringe Festival cancelled this year, expected to return in 2026

Jeffery Tram · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 5:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The Regina Fringe Festival has cancelled its 2025 edition, but promised a instrumentality successful July 2026. 

The festival shared the quality connected its website alongside an representation of 3 bittersweet clowns. The announcement comes a week aft the Regina Folk Festival permanently unopen down operations.

For Vanessa Prevost, a theatre creator and drama writer, the cancellation was a large disappointment. 

"It was a bummer erstwhile I got the email ," Prevost said. 

Prevost and her person had planned to taxable a Saskatchewan-based sketch amusement arsenic "not lone a emotion missive to Saskatchewan, but a roast and a farewell." 

"We don't cognize what to bash with it now."

Toronto-based playwright Laura Piccinin, who premiered her amusement Go astatine the 2023 festival, emphasized the value of smaller Fringe festivals. 

"It would beryllium a immense nonaccomplishment if the Regina Fringe Festival didn't travel back," she said.

Prevost said she hopes the festival returns successful 2026 and does much to item Regina's section arts country to visiting performers.

"The performers ne'er knew what to bash extracurricular of festival times," se said. "Having a small spot much acceptable successful spot to showcase the metropolis would beryllium important."

Festival organizers person not responded to requests for comment.