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ATB Golden Ticket Winner Ma-Anne looks forward to her VIP Fringe experience.

“Fringe is a community. There’s something for everyone in Fringe.”

In the time between Ma-Anne Escobar’s first Fringe in 2018 and now, she’s become a studious planner of her Festival experience. She diligently goes through the Festival Guide, makes spreadsheets, and she’s even been volunteering with Fringe. This year, though, she has a bit more planning to do: as the winner of the 2023 ATB Golden Ticket, Ma-Anne already has 100 tickets at her disposal.

“I’m thinking of bringing my cousin,” Ma-Anne laughs. “Last year I went with her on Monday—we’ll probably need a couple more days this year.”

The ATB Golden Ticket contest offers any Fringer the chance to win that triple-digit stack of tickets—good for whatever indoor shows the winner wishes to attend—along with VIP parking, dinner for two, a three-night hotel stay, and more. Ma-Anne figured out the daily clues posted on social media, and each solved clue bettered her chances of winning—even if it meant putting in some work to solve the harder ones.

“When it was about previous Fringes that were way back—that got me a bit stumped,” she says. “Then I had to do research. Which was also good, ‘cause it let me learn more about Fringe [from] before I was fringing.

“It also made me reminisce about the things that I’ve done with Fringe through the years,” she adds. “It was actually fun.”

And what has Fringe come to mean to Ma-Anne over the past few years?

“Fringe is a community,” she says. “There’s something for everyone in Fringe.”

Fittingly, Ma-Anne’s looking forward to taking more risks with the shows she chooses to see this year, to take in a full range of artistic experiences.

“There’s no limits compared to before,” she says of her ATB Golden Ticket win. “I think I’ll be more experimental this year, since I have all these tickets to use.”

“I still can’t believe that I won,” she continues. “I don’t win anything!”

Paper design with gold paint splatter around the design. On the top left is the ATB Golden Ticket logo with the words "2022 Winner" below. A dotted line weaves from the Golden Ticket to a polaroid framed photo on the right with the words "Ma-Anne Escobar" and a photo of Ma-Anne, a woman with shoulder-length blue hair with dark brown roots, glasses, a Volunteer badge, stripped pink and white shirt, black pants, and running shoes. They stand at the large colourful FRINGE letters on site.
ATB Golden Ticket Winner Ma-Anne Escobar.

Click here to learn about this year’s Golden Ticket Contest! You can enter to win and make your next Fringe golden! The 2023 ATB Golden Ticket contest runs August 9 – 24, 2023.  

Check out #ATBGoldenTicket to join in the fun and you could win 100 Festival show tickets, VIP parking, cash, and so much more! 

 

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