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19 Acts Receive Fringe Funds

Nineteen artist events have been given a massive boost by the Dunedin Fringe Festival, which has allocated $22,500 in funding received from Creative New Zealand. The funding was for the development of new artistic works and for the touring of work from outside Dunedin for the 2012 Festival programme.

The Festival received 38 applications from throughout New Zealand requesting a total of over $70,000. The funding process always involves some difficult decisions as there is never enough money to give to everybody. Funding criteria focused on innovation, experimentation, the standard of presentation and diversity. These acts come from all over New Zealand and will inject a depth and diversity into the Festival programme.

The acts who received funding will not be the only acts in the Festival as many other artists self-fund their work. Some of the artists who didn’t receive funding have decided to register their event anyway which shows the commitment and passion New Zealand artists have for what they do. We wish all our artists well for the 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival.

The full list of recipients are:

Industrial Burlesque Collective (Wgtn) with 'Zomburlesque'

Skirted Records (Wgtn) with 'Transit'

Kallo Collective (Wgtn) with 'The Fickle Finger of Fate'

Steve Ting (Dn) with 'Tangled Waters'

Dunedin Medieval and Renaissance Society (Dn) with 'Sex*Death*Magic'

Arthur Meek (Akld) with 'Richard Meros Salutes the Southern Man'

The Theatre As Is (Dn) with 'Pink Spider Men'

Jimmy Currin (Dn) with 'My Dinner With Dicky'

Robert Haley (Wgtn) with 'Mindreader'

Leo Ladell & Richard Dingwall (Dn) with 'Swing time with King Leo'

Free Theatre (Chch) with 'Hereafter'

Soma Media (Akld) with 'Girl with a Movie Camera'

Valarie Brooks (Dn) with 'Frocks on Bikes'

Black Sheep Productions (Akld) with 'Faux Pas'

Alex Lovell Smith (Dn) with 'Concrete Chimera'

Audrey Baldwin (Chch) with 'Canker'

Mike O'Kane (Dn) with 'Billboard Sixty'

Phillip Braithwaite (Wgtn) with 'Be Glad You're Neurotic'

45 Artist Events Registered

The deadline for artist registrations for the 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival closed on 18 November with 45 events across all art forms registered. This shows a fantastic level of support for the Festival with artists from throughout New Zealand and overseas taking part in what will be a vibrant and comprehensive programme.

Theatre is a particularly strong category for the 2012 Festival with comedy, physical theatre, improv, clowning, and street based performance all present. Many theatre shows will take place in the Fortune and Globe Theatres which have been programmed with multiple shows every night of the Festival. The visual arts is also well represented in the Festival as is comedy, dance and music.

Eight outstanding comedians have been confirmed for the Festival’s Comedy Club and the Festival Club's programme of music and cabaret performance is looking very promising. Altogether we will have 50 events featuring over 250 artists from New Zealand and around the world and we can't wait to bring this to Dunedin audiences.

The 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival will take place from 15-25 March with the official programme published on 16 February.