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Be Part Of Melbourne’s Cultural Soul

Melbourne Fringe Festival is Australia’s most riveting showcase of vigorous, fresh and contemporary new work. This is the edge of creation ‐ the forefront of artistic trends and ideas!

For twenty six years, established and emerging independent artists have chosen to present work in the Melbourne Fringe Festival and embrace the creative freedom that the Fringe environment offers. Being part of Melbourne Fringe enables artists to engage with the dynamic independent arts community they are part of and to present truly exciting new works to eager Melbourne audiences.

“The Melbourne Fringe Festival is a fantastic opportunity. It encourages creative risks while providing valuable support, and you feel part of an artistic community. It also increases your exposure ‐ getting an audience is much easier through Melbourne Fringe.” Richard Higgins, The List Operators (Award Winners – 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009)

“We believe that artists should determine the shape, direction and trends of contemporary culture, so the independent program is entirely open access. This allows the newest ideas, free from the constraints of a theme or pre‐defined category, to sit proudly in the Festival’s program.” Emily Sexton, Creative Producer, Melbourne Fringe

Melbourne Fringe is there to help you all along the way. We can assist you in finding a venue, we offer free training forums in various aspects of producing and presenting a show, and assist each and every show by providing a major marketing and publicity campaign to promote the entire program.

Plus Melbourne Fringe offers mentoring programs, industry voted Awards and a stack of networking opportunities to help your career take off.

So – what are you waiting for? Register now!

Melbourne Fringe registrations open on Monday 25th May and close on Friday 12 June. You don’t need to have absolutely everything worked out– the venue, title, show times and a publicity image will do to get you started.

The Melbourne Fringe Info Night is on Monday 1st June at 6pm in the Fairfax Foyer, The Arts Centre, St Kilda Road. Whether this is your first Fringe show or your tenth, Info Night is the way to find out what’s new, what’s important and what’s not.

To Register go to www.melbournefringe.com.au. And don’t forget to call us on 03 9660 9600 – we’ve been doing this for 26 years so we have a trick or two to share!