A lo-fi, eclectic array of new material and works-in-progress, diverse in style, content, and media.
Join us for the second annual Fringe is Now (FIN) Festival
June 19th-28th, 2026 featuring
performances | conversations | pop-up events | bread-breaking
in association with the Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 39
Presented by the National Institute of Flamenco in partnership with the University of New Mexico and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque celebrates everything to do with flamenco for nine days in June.
This year’s festival takes place June 19-27. The festival includes dozens of performances, free and paid workshops, internationally-based performance companies and more than a hundred total performers.
SPIDER
Spider is an emerging, ramshackle artists collective committed to affirming habits of convening, with the belief that we know ourselves by knowing each other, and that we animate that knowledge with creative (even hopeful) power by being with each other in person: small groups, immanent and persistent.
Spider will convene at four announced points on the Fringe schedule, and then – serendipitously. Let us know if you’re coming, let us know when you’re here. We’ll find our way to each other, and ways to retrieve each other down the road.
“… Silk laying requires the spider to travel and circulate. Spiders achieve their goal by constantly moving around the space, leaving threads where they travel that create and strengthen individual hubs while also building the whole of the web. This requires not just moving from the center to the periphery and back, but more importantly, moving across expanses at the far margins of the web… It is as if the web is in constant development because the goal is not the finalizing of the web as a static outcome. Adaptive flexibility continuously connects and often rebuilds a web with new forms that emerge to adapt to changing conditions – all assure the purpose of the web within the space: To survive.”
– John Paul Lederach