The Melbourne Fringe Festival is the largest annual celebration of independent arts in Victoria. The Festival is entirely open access, meaning that artists are responsible for the creation and presentation of their own events.
Melbourne Fringe celebrates the fresh, the innovative and the ground-breaking in all aspects of the arts. It is the most exciting explosion of independent creativity that Melbourne sees each year. If you want to take the pulse of one of Australia's most culturally engaged cities, this is the time and place to do it.
The Festival is one of Australia's most authentic reflections of contemporary arts practice due to the inclusive, open access approach and our ability to attract an impressive line up of emerging artists alongside established artists experimenting with content, form and presentation.
In 25 years Melbourne Fringe has created a rich cultural legacy, a bucket load of sweet memories and a long list of seminal performers, writers, designers and artists who have, and still do, develop groundbreaking work.
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