Battleaxe the Festival

BattleAxe Fest is a brand new, indie, (mostly) comedy festival celebrating women+ from all over right here in Cbus, OH! Created + curated by Tara DeFrancisco (@taradefrancisco, touring performer, 4x annual festival planner) plus a giant team of friends + contemporaries are joining to make yet another fun, punky, beautiful, and communal project in our city. Thursday October 22 evening, Friday October 23, and all day & night October 24th, we will be reveling in the comedy + arts shared by our lineups from 15+ cities sharing their talents! We'll be featuring as many types of comedy arts as we can - standups galore, improvising solo/duos/teams, storytellers, and experimental works - as well as workshops, panels, jams, and ways to collab across the board. -Tickets for events go on sale Friday, September 25th throughout the day for most programming - 13 shows, and even more events! Grab them individually, get a night pass, get ready to have a great weekend in Cbus, Ohio!- The missions & goals of BattleAxe Fest™ All materials/intellectual property of BattleAxe Fest 2026™ *OPEN Any comic, artist, storyteller, improviser, writer from ANYWHERE, as long as they are compliant with our missions, performer protections, and CoE. No application fee. *INCLUSION This fest will include any and all women (no matter assigned gender at birth, and also including trans/nb/genderqueer folks empowered in primarily female spaces). *ALL TOGETHER This would be one weekend