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New Zealand Fringe Festival 2025: Celebrating 35 Years Of Brilliance

Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 8:16 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

As the “Birthplace of Brilliance,” this year’s festival promises to ignite imaginations and push the boundaries of live performance. More >>

New Zealand Fringe Festival Closes With A Bang!

Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 8:59 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

On Saturday 9 March 2024, the New Zealand Fringe Festival—the largest multi-disciplinary arts festival in Aotearoa—came to a close with a bang. NZ Fringe acts as a platform for both emerging and established artists to offer their events to the Pōneke public ... More >>

New Zealand Fringe Festival Launches Its 2024 Programme, With More Than 800 Artists Presenting Over 160 Diverse Events!

Thursday, 14 December 2023, 8:55 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

  Back for its 34th year, NZ’s leading open-access arts festival, The Birthplace of Brilliance, New Zealand Fringe launches its programme for the 2024 season tonight. From 16 February – 9 March, creators hailing from overseas as well ... More >>

New Zealand Fringe Festival Is Back For 2024 And Supporting Artists With New Capability Programme

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:12 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2311/5b2526a4372f085b77bb.jpeg" width="720" height="396"> The New Zealand Fringe Festival (NZ Fringe) launches its 2024 programme in just two weeks, on Thursday 14 December. ... More >>

Emerging Wellington Performer Next Artist To Join Internationally Recognised Only Bones Project

Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Wellington-based dancer and actor, Daniel Nodder, returns to the New Zealand Fringe Festival to premier his brand new solo show, Only Bones V1.10. Nodder has created the show under the mentorship of award-winning circus performer, Thomas Monckton ... More >>

Fringe Festival Announces Award Winners And Celebrates The End Of Its 2022 Festival Programme Under ‘Red Light’ Setting

Monday, 14 March 2022, 10:46 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Pōneke, NZ –– The New Zealand Fringe Festival completed its 2022 programme last night with an online digital awards ceremony celebrating the outstanding efforts and achievements of the boldest and brightest artists during the festival under ‘Red ... More >>

The Sweetest Spectacular: A Late Night Delight At The New Zealand Fringe Festival

Friday, 18 February 2022, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Roll up! Roll up! Award winning circus theatre company, Inverted Citizens, are delighted to present a brand new show as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival, The Sweetest Spectacular. Showing at the FAFF Club on Friday 4 March at 8pm and from Wednesday ... More >>

The New Zealand Fringe Festival Launched In Wellington Supporting Over 800 Independent Artists Under ‘Red Light’.

Friday, 18 February 2022, 9:09 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

PŌNEKE, NZ — The 2022 New Zealand Fringe Festival (NZ Fringe) opened on Thursday evening with a small-scale Gala night celebration of the launch of the 2022 programme of diverse and creative cutting-edge arts. Staged across 30 venues in Pōneke, the ... More >>

Stand Up Comedy Show With Kickass Wellington Trio

Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2202/9f4ae820a4afccdd8ad7.jpeg" width="720" height="377"> Do you know the best things come in packs of 3! (Tiramisu anyone? Without mascarpone, we are dairy-free) This ... More >>

Red Light Is Alright For The New Zealand Fringe Festival

Monday, 31 January 2022, 6:19 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The New Zealand Fringe Festival (NZ Fringe) confirms that its 2022 festival programme is prepared and safe to go ahead under the ‘Red’ setting of the Covid Protection Framework (Traffic Light System) this Summer across Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, ... More >>

The NZ Fringe Festival 2022 - Confirmed For 18 February To 12 March 2022

Friday, 17 December 2021, 9:26 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The New Zealand Fringe Festival (NZ Fringe) confirms festival dates for 2022 and launches its thrilling open access arts festival programme with a record-breaking 200+ events across 37 different venues around the greater Wellington region from ... More >>

Whitireia And WelTec Students Create Award-winning Work At Fringe Festival

Monday, 29 March 2021, 12:02 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

  Another successful Fringe Festival has been and gone in the capital city and, this year, Whitireia and WelTec students played a big part in its success. One of the most vibrant events on the Wellington calendar, the 2021 New Zealand Fringe ... More >>

Good Actor Challenges Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Acting Battle

Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The New Zealand Fringe Festival is on the horizon and one of the institution’s most seasoned performers is spoiling for a battle… an acting battle! Tickets are on sale now for three events in this year’s Pōneke Festival by Tāmaki Makaurau-based ... More >>

New Zealand Fringe Show Is Out Of This World!

Friday, 22 January 2021, 12:22 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Celestial Nobodies is an exciting new educational polylogue that brings gravity to universal experiences through a lens of black comedy. Written by Evangelina Telfar, Celestial Nobodies is a journey around the universe to meet yourself at the other ... More >>

The History Boy-Wellington Fringe Festival

Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

 All of history is just stories we tell each other to understand the world, and every story is at least in part about the person doing the telling. Performed by the award-winning Matt Powell (Awkward Threesome, Soap Factory) and inspired by ... More >>

NZ Fringe Festival Selects Te Auaha, The Creative Headquarters Of Whitireia & WelTec As Festival Hub

Monday, 17 February 2020, 3:35 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

  The New Zealand Fringe Festival has chosen Te Auaha, a multi-level “cluster of creativity” and the HQ for creative programmes at Whitireia and WelTec – as its hub for the 2020 festival. Works by three Applied Arts graduates from Whitireia ... More >>

NZ Fringe 2020 has launched

Wednesday, 11 December 2019, 11:57 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Hold onto your creative bits! The NZ Fringe is turning 30, and it's the largest, most diverse festival ever! We’re Thirty. We’re Flirty. And We’re Thriving. That’s right, for three decades New Zealand Fringe Festival has been supporting ... More >>

And the 2019 New Zealand Fringe Awards Winners Are!

Monday, 25 March 2019, 9:35 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The 2019 New Zealand Fringe Arts Festival has wrapped up another remarkable year. On Sunday evening the Fringe team and artists gathered together at our good friend’s Te Whaea Theatre in Newtown, to reflect on the power art has to transcend diversity, ... More >>

Our Maiden Voyage Will Do Our Country Proud

Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The misguided crew of the Yesterday, one of Aotearoa’s first space-cruise ships, is about to take off on their maiden voyage, and they want you to join them. More >>

Wellington Fringe Festival 2019 will be a RIOT!

Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 5:21 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Today celebrates the 29th launch of Wellington's Fringe Festival programme. In 2019 we’re excited to play host to a league of incoming and upcoming talents, while paying homage to scores of established artists, not only from here in Aotearoa, but ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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