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New home for independent arts as Melbourne Fringe takes over Trades Hall

After 17 years at North Melbourne Town Hall, the Fringe is taking over the license of the Trades Hall bar. The venue will become the new Festival Hub in September, with programming running all year round.

13 Mar 2019

Richard Watts

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Two permanent venues for performing artists will support Melbourne’s thriving independent sector year round, as the result of Melbourne Fringe taking up a new residency at Trades Hall in Carlton, at the edge of the CBD.

The Fringe will relocate to Trades Hall from its current premises in Southbank in June, and will run two permanent performance spaces in the Old Ballroom and Annexe, as well as operating the Trades Hall bar.

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Richard Watts

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