The Sydney Fringe is an alternative arts and culture festival held for the first time in September 2010 in the

inner west The Inner West of Sydney is an area directly west of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. The suburbs that make up the Inner West are predominantly located along the southern shore of Port Jackson (Parramatta River) ...

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, Australia. The Fringe is an initiative of the Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association.The Sydney Fringe – About Us
Accessed 15/2/10 It is the largest alternative visual and

performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...

event in NSW. It encompasses genres such as

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music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

, and

burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

, though shows and events that are not easily labelled in that manner are highly encouraged; evidence of this in past years has included

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recordings and

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events. It is billed as "a time for risk, discovery and adventure ..a three week celebration of the strange and the beautiful." The Sydney Fringe, began as a curated festival (like the

New York International Fringe Festival The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across seve ...

) as opposed to an open access "unjuried" festival (the model used by the

Edinburgh Fringe Festival The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...

).Sydney Morning Herald 19/12/09 "Newtown gets a cutting-edge fringe"
Accessed 15/2/10 In 2012, festival director Richard Hull implemented the open access festival model, whereby the visual arts is now the only curated element.http://2012.sydneyfringe.com/news/prepare-unleash-yourself The Sydney Fringe typically operates in a festival precinct encompassing a number of venues in the Newtown/

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/ Enmore area, with a few other venues in the wider Sydney area, including Leichhardt, Parramatta, Oxford Street and the city.The Sydney Fringe – FAQs
Accessed 15/2/10 In a departure from previous years, where venues registered with the Fringe in the same manner as artists, the Fringe 2013 team have selected a list of over 60 Sydney venues, for artists to then communicate and draw up contracts with. This fringe went on hiatus in 2020.

Previous Sydney Fringe Festivals

The Sydney Fringe Festival ran from 1994 to 2002 in Bondi, founded by producer Victoria Harbutt and Megan Donnelly who were assisted fantastically by Cathy Carlsson, Sylvia DeAngelis, Gil Summons and Lucia Mastrantone” for four years and Katrina Sedgwick for one year. The Live Bait Festival, a successor to the Sydney Fringe Festival, also operated out of Bondi from 2003 to 2004 and was co-produced by Michael Cohen and Glenn Wright.Sydney Morning Herald 24/1/06 "Something's missing on the edge of the stage"
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sydney Fringe Festival Fringe festivals in Australia Festivals in Sydney Newtown, New South Wales 2010 establishments in Australia