It seems the place of fringe festivals in the arts and (sub)cultural landscape is as fickle as fringes in the world of hairdressing! Sydney’s decided they’re bringing the fringe back with the (new) Sydney Fringe Festival to be held in September this year (submissions are open till 1 April) in venues around Newtown under the direction of Kris Stewart who comes to Sydney via the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Sydney has been sans-fringe festival since 2005 but has recently cut itself a new one, rejoining Adelaide, Melbourne (Melbourne Fringe and Digital Fringe), Brisbane (Under the Radar theatre fringe), Hobart, Darwin and Fremantle (Fremantle Community Fringe Festival and FotoFreo Fringe) in the running of established fringes. Nice new cut Sydney!
Photo: Adaptation of Day 670 / 365 – After Skating by xJasonRogersx (crop and resize). This version and the original available under a CC BY 2.0 Generic licence.