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NZ Fringe Festival 2016 registrations open 27 August!

Friday, 21 August 2015, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The NZ Fringe Festival is set for 12 February – 5 March 2016 and registrations for shows and events open via the website ( www.fringe.co.nz ) on 27 August and close on 8 October 2015. More >>

Geraldine Quinn - MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt

Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 9:40 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The novelist Jane Austen never married, but had 23 nieces and nephews. She wrote some of the greatest novels in the English language. Geraldine Quinn ( Adam Hills Tonight , Spicks & Specks ) has 19 nieces and nephews. She draws cock’n’balls, ... More >>

Suddenly Shakespeare 2015

Monday, 5 January 2015, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

In Fringe '14 more than thirty people got to perform in a Shakespeare play just by showing up. Quite a few more just watched. We're still not sure anything quite like it has ever been done anywhere else. More >>

Celebrating NZ Fringe Festival 2014

Monday, 3 March 2014, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The 2014 NZ Fringe Festival has come to a sensational glittering end, with an award ceremony at St Peter’s Church Sunday 2nd March, honouring the hard work, creativity and innovativeness of 121 events, performing over 700 shows in 45 different Wellington ... More >>

Award-Winning Composer Sends Fringe to Sleep with Sloth

Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 7:09 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Multi-media production and musical sensory experience A Symphony of Sloths premieres in the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Taking its inspirations from slow-moving animal the Sloth, Composer and Director Marika Pratley will challenge common perceptions ... More >>

Stranger - Geraldine Quinn

Monday, 10 February 2014, 2:30 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Stranger is a unique modern rise-and-fall rock cabaret from multi award winning cabaret star, Geraldine Quinn. Part Ziggy Stardust zeitgeist, part Icarus and part Sasha Fierce, Quinn gets her guitar-string-stained sticky fingers into her own version ... More >>

Lines from the Nile: Weddings and Wars in Aro Valley

Monday, 10 February 2014, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A 170 year old English piano has been the inspiration for Lines from the Nile in the 2014 Wellington Fringe Festival. The Broadwood piano has been a resident of Aro Valley through several generations and is currently housed in the home of Douglas ... More >>

kNOw Hope - Amorangi

Monday, 10 February 2014, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

French-based music ian Amorangi, who hails from the North Island’s East Coast, returns to New Zealand this summer for a rare tour, including performances at the Wellington Fringe Festival. More >>

Jezebel of Jazz

Monday, 10 February 2014, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

She Was Known as the “Keith Richards” of Jazz Music. So Why Have You Never Heard of Anita O’Day? More >>

Break Up [We Need To Talk]

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

There’s no easy way to do this… six hours of desperation, negotiation, devastation and emotional blackmail. More >>

Composer Sends Fringe to Sleep with Sloth Symphony

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Multi-media production and musical sensory experience A Symphony of Sloths premieres in the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Taking its inspirations from slow-moving animal the Sloth, Composer and Director Marika Pratley will challenge common perceptions ... More >>

Art Anarchy Collective

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

https://www.facebook.com/artanarchycollective?ref=hl https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hutt-Valley-Community-Arts/187495488046725 More >>

Between The Lines

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A group of local performers are putting themselves on the line this summer in a show for the 2014 Fringe Festival. Between the Lines features a giant Hill’s Hoist, the iconic washing line found in the backyard of many NZ homes. A mixture of circus ... More >>

Fountain Life Guard Service

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 2:03 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

DOES YOUR TOWN HAVE A FOUNTAIN? IF SO, YOU NEED The Fountain Life Guard Service (FLaGS) Brought to you this summer by THE PUBLIC SERVICE More >>

'How to Universe' premieres in Wellington

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 2:00 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A duo dubbed “The Flight of the Conchords of Juggling” has joined forces with one of the country’s most talented young aerial artists’ to produce a captivating and unique debut performance for Wellington Fringe 2014. More >>

Street Shibari

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Watch a person be transformed into an aerial work of art with a few simple lengths of rope. Inspired by Tokyo’s kinky nightlife, Street Shibari presents a unique take on Japanese rope bondage. It’s like busking . . . but with rope! More >>

The Way We Fall

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1:48 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Following a sell out Auckland season, The Way We Fall will inhabit the magnificent Museum of Wellington City & Sea, for 3 nights only as part of the 2014 NZ Fringe Festival. More >>

The ‘I’ Test

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Muted Crane Productions presents The ‘I’ Test , a new dance theatre work exploring the idea of perspective gained… like every new lens prescription, each experience clarifies our sight. More >>

Frame of Mind

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Ariel Middlemiss Dance Collective in association with the Fringe invites you come and explore the palette of emotions through the medium of dance. More >>

Do you want to share a secret? 'Stranger' by Geraldine Quinn

Thursday, 30 January 2014, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

For her 2013 show 'Stranger', Geraldine Quinn created an anonymous soundscape of little things we leave unsaid - apologies for a long broken vase, admitting to a crush you have, telling someone who will never hear exactly what you think of that ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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