Established in 1991, All Out Arts is a nonprofit devoted to bringing together the diverse artistic, organizational, political and financial resources of the LGBTQ community in order to fight intolerance.
The Fresh Fruit Festival is presented by All Out Arts to celebrate the LGBTQ community’s unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, be they local or international. The 2018 Fresh Fruit Festival MainStage is in its16th Season
Festival Highlights:
An UnCommon Core
written and performed by Abigail Swetz
Meet Abigail Swetz, shepherding her 8th grade students safely through a heartbreaking year. Racism, police brutality, homophobic violence: all processed and exorcised by the magic and power of her students’ in-class poetry.
The Song of Bernadette
by Maura Campbell
Award-winning playwright Maura Campbell’s lyrical tale of genderfluid teen Carolyn, whose beloved sister Mary is obsessed with the martyred Saint Bernadette (possibly living in their Ouija board). Their supernatural experiments yield lessons on love—but is love more powerful than death?
. . . Where You Eat
by Dennis Bush
World Premiere
Does our sexuality define us? Does it enhance us? Is our sexual expression limited by society, the people in our lives, or by us?
