Incorporated in 1993, The Fringe Arts Trust will be presenting its 16th Fringe Festival in 2009. The festival has grown from small beginnings to over one hundred events in more than 50 venues all over the Wellington region.
Fringe Festival is recognised as a unique creative launch pad for the arts in New Zealand. Fringe is an open access festival, meaning anyone can produce a show or a creative project and be involved in this annual event.
Hundreds of volunteers and local members of the community donate their time to helping promote and produce the festival each year. We are a much loved part of the New Zealand arts calendar, with a strong brand that is recognised internationally for innovation in art and the creative spirit of Kiwi ingenuity.
The New Zealand Fringe Festival releases the most concentrated mix of new talent, in all arts mediums in the greater Wellington region – 3 exciting weeks of pure Fringe creative genius! Approximately 60,000 festival-goers are treated to the sharpest stand-up, theatre, visual arts, live music, basement productions and cutting-edge multi-media.
Our creative objective is to provide a positive and supportive platform for innovative ideas to help them fly!
new zealand Fringe festival Staff
Director - Mark Westerby
Accounts - Alison Smith
Fringe Arts Trust Board
Fringe Arts Trust is a Charitable Trust that is governed by a board that are passionate about the arts in New Zealand.
Miranda Clayton (Chair)
Alex Sutherland
Ezra Jennings-Pedro
Jo Randerson
Brooke Ashton-Taylor
Tony DeLorenzo
Bevan Graham
Charlotte Bates
Michael Wigley