Fringe festivals power ahead across three states

As Adelaide Fringe opens, new Fringe Festivals are also springing up in Hobart and on the Mornington Peninsula.

Responding to the annual influx of mainland tourists into Hobart each winter, a new Tasmanian festival called Dark Fringe will be held for the first time this June.

The next step is attract artists. ‘We’re looking for people who want to participate in the initial Fringe, which we want to be organic and to gradually grow from year to year. We’re not imagining miracles will occur in the first year,’ Male says.

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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