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SAWITRI Theatre presents the Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival August 15 to 21, 2022

SAWITRI Theatre’s Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival is back for year 2, this time at the Small Arms Inspection Building happening August 15 to 21, 2022.
One venue – six productions and in the many languages of Asia - Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Cantonese, Tagalog and English.

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Jasmine Sawant, Co-Founder and Artistic Co-Director of SAWITRI Theatre Group, said, “We are very excited to be back for the second year of the Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival in-person. We look forward to its continued growth to become a festival of choice for artists and audiences from around the world.”

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Shruti Shah, the Artistic Co-Director added, “The MMFF is back for Year 2 in 2022. We are grateful for the ongoing support of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) and especially of Michele Gallant, Calgary Fringe.” 

Founded in January 2003, SAWITRI Theatre Group is an award-winning, incorporated not-for-profit organization under the artistic leadership of Jasmine Sawant and Shruti Shah, presenting original, challenging and exciting works featuring established professionals as well as emerging artists. With a mandate to educate, entertain and heal through theatre arts that are South Asian in character, origin or topic and foreground women and the new generation, as well as issues of social or political importance, SAWITRI Theatre brings unique theatre experiences to its audiences in some of India’s many languages, including English.  Operationally, SAWITRI Theatre Group is supported by The Open Space, Nitin Sawant, and the unstinting support of family, friends and volunteers and is partly supported by the City of Mississauga through an annual operating grant. The Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival would not have been possible without the funding support of Canadian Heritage and the Government of Ontario. SAWITRI Theatre is a member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) since 2020.