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Dunedin Fringe Represents in Adelaide

Director of the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Paul Smith, has been selected for the Adelaide Fringe Festival's Honey Pot programme. Adelaide Fringe hosts numerous Festival directors from Australasia and around the world. The Honey Pot programme is designed to support Festival directors and facilitate networking and ultimately opportunities for artists participating in the Adelaide Fringe.

The Adelaide Fringe runs from 24 February to 18 March and is the second largest fringe festival in the world, after Edinburgh. It boasts over 900 events in 300 venues and it all kicks off with a massive street parade on the 24th of February.

"The Adelaide Fringe is strategically important to the Dunedin Fringe as our festival follows the Adelaide Fringe so closely. This presents a perfect opportunity for Australian and internation artists to tour to Dunedin. With so many shows there is a strong likelihood that artists will include Dunedin on their tour once they know about us."

Mr Smith is holding a Director's talk at the Tuxedo Cat, one of the Adelaide Fringe's key venues, on 27 February at 2pm to facilitate artist tours.

"Just being part of the Honey Pot programme has created a lot of interest from artists in the Dunedin Fringe Festival. I have a few meetings lined up with artists but also with Adelaide Fringe staff. You learn so much by seeing what other festivals do and with this one being so big and well organised it is just an amazing experience."

For more on the Adelaide Fringe see their website.

 

Festival Programme is Out Now!

The 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival's printed Festival Guide has been launched and is now being distributed by our dedicated team of volunteers.

Keep an eye out for Guides at Festival hot spots around town, including:

• Quest - you can also buy tickets here
• Ironic Cafe
• Clubs & Societies building at University
• Otago Polytechnic Art School
• Allen Hall Theatre
• Otago University Dance Studies department
• Otago University Students Association
• University Bookshop
• Dunedin Public Art Gallery
• Regent Theatre
• Fortune Theatre
• Dunedin Public Library
• Blue Oyster Gallery

So grab your copy of the Festival Guide from the nearest Festival hot spot or browse this website.

Any changes to the Festival programme will be posted to the front page of this website.

Special Events Lineup

Along with the many artist produced events in the 2012 Dundin Fringe Festival programme, there are six special events produced by the Festival. These events are to mark key moments of the Festival, such as the launch of the Festival and the closing Awards Night, but also to lift the profile of the Festival and to collaborate with particular artists. Some are free and others are ticketed, but all are well worth a look. Here is a rundown of our key events for 2012.

 

Festival Launch: Tweed Ride & Frocks on Bikes

15 March, The Octagon, 5:30pm, free

Look out for some stunning fashion as artists, fashion designers and models join us for a colourful ride from the entrance of Woodhaugh Gardens down George Street to the Octagon, where we will officially launch the 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival. Join us in the Octagon for Dunedin’s first ever fashion show on wheels and the unveiling of Rare Goods, the Festival’s shipping container cinema showcasing digital art and film.

Rare Goods

15-25 March, The Octagon, 12:00noon – 6:00pm, free

A rare shipment of digital art, film and animation will be on show in the Octagon for the Festival. This is an opportunity to enjoy original work by some exceptionally talented artists, designers and tertiary students. Don’t miss the Dunedin premier of the 3D Maori creation story that was developed by local company Animation Research Limited for the Rugby World Cup.

 

John Cooper Clarke: British punk icon comes to Dunedin

21 March, Sammy's, 8:00pm, $40/$30

Legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke brings his unique style of punk poetry to the Dunedin Fringe Festival for one electrifying night. Biting, satirical, political and very funny, his set is characterised by lively, rapid-fire renditions of his poems that have become as distinctive as his visual appearance. A British punk icon, having supported bands like the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, and The Fall, John has left an ideligible mark on today’s pop culture. Martin Phillipps will be performing a short set of rare and obscure songs from the Chills’ back catalogue.

Fireström

16 March, The Octagon, Dunedin, 8:00pm, free

Highly Flammable, NZ's premier fire and pyrotechnics performance troupe, are back from the island of Stromboli, Italy, Europe’s most active volcano and site of the world-renowned Stromboli Fire Festival. Join us for their new fire show, which fuses extreme fire and pyrotechnics. Supporting acts include the irrepressible circus and comedy personality Vinyl Burns (Wgtn) and Dunedin’s extraordinary Taiko Drummers. This is a spectacular one-off fire show suitable for all ages.

Pecha Kucha Night #13

18 March, Fortune Theatre, 7:30pm, $10/$8

Pecha Kucha is a global phenomenon happening in over 450 cities from Chattanaooga to Yogyakarta with hundreds of creative images and stories shared every week. An array of talented artists, performers and designers sparking with wit and ingenuity share their private passions. Each presenter shows 20 images with each image displayed for just 20 seconds. Once started there is no stopping! The quick-fire format, the stories behind the images, the people you meet on the night, all come together to make this a captivating event not to be missed. A list of presenters will be posted on the Festival website.