2024 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
IS SERVED
Did you hear that?
That’s the sound of the full Festival program dropping.
Food and art will collide at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, where we’ll be serving every flavour of event to satisfy even the fussiest of artistic appetites.
No, seriously, we’ve got an enormous public BBQ and everything.
Tuck into the full Festival program now. You can find creative risk-taking and fierce ambition from independent makers in our boundary-pushing program,Pulse. In our Radical Access program, there are artists reimagining accessible artmaking and changing cultural conversations with artistic activism. The Deadly Fringe program returns to celebrate cutting-edge performances of necessity and innovation by First Nations creators. While in our experimental kids program, XS, it’s BIG art for tiny art lovers.
Plus – there’s so much more from the 2,600 strong community of bold, bright and brilliant Fringe artists coming together across Melbourne for our mammoth three-week celebration of art and voices on the fringe.
We hope you’re hungry. Eat Your Art Out this Fringe.
FLASH SALE ON NOW
What’s better than getting Melbourne Fringe Festival tickets? Getting Melbourne Fringe Festival tickets for 25% off! For a limited time only (48 hours from now to be precise) you can score a juicy discount on a buffet of shows with our 48 hour Flash Sale. Plus, since we’re feeling festive, we’re extending the early bird Hub Club membership price until the end of the flash sale.
Cue the sound of a happy bank account AND your October calendar chock-full of fun Fringe events — Cha-Ching! Flash Sale is here for a good time, not a long time, so make sure you secure your savings before 6pm Sunday 11 August.
FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH FRINGE
With close to 470 events in the Festival it can be hard to know where to start. Well, you’ve come to the right place! We’ve popped together a handy collection of… collections… of shows so you can browse by themes, content, format, and genre. Happy browsing, go find the right show for you (spoiler alert, there’ll be more than one!).
COOKED by Long Prawn and friends
1–20 October | Fed Square
Long Prawn and friends are bringing the spirit of the democracy sausage to Fed Square where the hot plate meets the stage in a Festival-long pop-up dedicated to the art of grilling – and where grilling meets art.
Culinary mavericks Long Prawn and their collaborators will be at the pass day and night slinging snacks – both edible and artistic – in the purpose built dining and performance space, designed by Mikhail Savin Roderick Projects with a working barbecue designed by artist Mike Hewson. With different events activating the space throughout the Festival, COOKED is sure to feed you, mind body and soul.
FRINGE FLAVOURS NIGHT MARKET
Every Wednesday 18 Sept–16 Oct | Queen Victoria Market
Sink your teeth into sizzling street performance as ultimate Melbourne icons collide. Melbourne Fringe Festival and Queen Victoria Market are teaming up to bring you Fringe Flavours Night Markets. For five Wednesdays starting in September, you can pair delicious food and drinks from the Night Market’s variety of vendors with entertainment from the Melbourne Fringe Festival program.
VOLUNTEER WITH FRINGE
Love what we do? We’d love to have you! We’re once again on the hunt for some amazing volunteers to help put a little finesse on our Festival, whether it’s getting punters’ bums on the right seat, or directing them towards the nearest QR code (you’ve gotta press and hold, Graham!). We’ve got positions including: All-Rounders, Front of House Attendants, Fringe Greeters, and Access Champions. Whatever special flair you bring, we want it as part of the Fringe Festival team.
