St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival

The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is a festival that hosts fringe theatre, repertory, dance, music, and drag-queen performances in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] The festival is held annually and lasts for 20 days in June.^[2] The festival was previously run by Jeremy Hechtman and Patrick Goddard,^[3] but Hechtman stepped down in 2010 after being in the position for 15 years.^[4] The festival has been run since 2011 by choreographer Amy Blackmore.^[5] McAuslan Brewing sponsors the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival and several other festivals in Montreal, including Pop Montreal, the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Fantasia Festival.^[6] The 2007 festival featured a mass fake marriage for theatre-goers at the beginning of the festival and then a corresponding mass fake divorce at the end symbolised by the eating of timbits.^[7]