By Elke Heitmeyer

Fringe of the Woods Festival returned for its fifth year from August 8 to August 10, offering theater performances to the mountain communities. Peter Kjenaas, one of the festival organizers, brought together friends from a creative community he studied theater with in San Francisco during the 1980s for a reunion, and blended them with local performers. Kjenaas said, “I do this to bring the world here, because I can no longer go there.”

Kim Teevan, who co-organized the Festival with Kjenaas and Paul Codiga,…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: Some images from the fifth installment of the Fringe of the Woods Festival at the Mile High Theater in Lake of the Woods

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