Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund awards $30,000

Companies from Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide have been awarded $10,000 each in the Fund’s inaugural grants round.
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Image: We3’s Derek Ives-Plunkett in The Long Pigs. Photo by Ponch Hawkes

Launched late last year, the Cultural Fund – open to donations from members of the public – aims to ensure there will always be daring and diverse contemporary works in the festival by supporting companies making such work.

‘It’s really about ensuring great work, cutting edge new work, is coming to the Adelaide Fringe, basically. Because I can’t buy that work in,’ said Adelaide Fringe Director Greg Clarke.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts