Active participation an emerging trend at Sydney Fringe 2024

Why just watch an arts event when you can take part in it?
A colourful group of Sydney Fringe performers, including a drag queen, a puppet and puppeteer and others, pose with the Sydney CBD skyline in the background.

Like many fringe festivals around the world, Sydney Fringe Festival is open-access; anyone can enter their work into the Festival provided they can afford the registration fee.

While such participatory works have been present in Sydney Fringe before, they’re really starting to make a mark this year, she continues.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts