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This project successfully funded on 26th July 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 26th July 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Venue 13 returns to the Fringe! Help relaunch this iconic space for bold, emerging performance after a 6-year hiatus.
After a six-year hiatus, Venue 13 returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025.
First established in 1980, Venue 13 has long been a cherished space for experimental, international, and early-career artists. With a reputation for thoughtful curation, affordable access, and artist-centered support, it has hosted over four decades of bold and boundary-pushing theatre, dance, and storytelling.
Now, as the Fringe faces rising costs and uncertain infrastructure, we’re bringing Venue 13 back—with a renewed vision grounded in sustainability, equity, and care.
Venue 13 will relaunch at its longtime home, Harry Younger Hall, at the base of the Royal Mile. Co-produced by Toasterlab (Canada) and VKind (UK), the 2025 season will present a curated slate of in-venue, hybrid, and site-specific works.
We’re focused on:
Your support helps us:
Venue 13’s limited 2025 season will include:
Venue 13 is returning not just as a venue, but as a platform for new ways of working—artist-led, community-oriented, and future-focused. As artists face rising barriers to participation, we’re offering a rare model of stability, care, and creative possibility.
Whether you’re an artist, an audience member, or a long-time Fringe supporter: you can help write the next chapter of Venue 13.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made