Tag: "Melbourne Fringe Festival"

Andrew McClelland (feat. DJ Ian Bell) - Hang The DJ
0 Comments. 816 Views. Posted 17 Oct 2012 @ 3:26pm.
Presented by Andrew McClelland and DJ Ian Bell, Hang The DJ is a pop-aficionado's dream. The disc-spinning duo present a guided tour of their expertise, offering an intricate yet light-hearted look at life behind the decks. It must be said that the show belongs to McClelland, both his comic background and charisma invaluable to proceedings. He’s the epitome of a natural performer, carrying the... Read More
Friend Ship
0 Comments. 443 Views. Posted 9 Oct 2012 @ 2:33pm.
On her trip to ‘cooldom’ Dr Kenzie Larsen realised there was an acute formula to becoming someone’s friend. It consisted of the standard fabrication of stories we weave as children to ‘fit in’ and remain one of those children within the crowd that everyone wants to befriend. Overcome with her revelation, Dr Larsen established a seminar entitled Friend Ship to help people who “have no... Read More
One Character or Less
0 Comments. 448 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 1:30pm.
Self-proclaimed actor/writer/director/producer Charles Barrington returns to charm audiences with another unique hour of stand-up comedy. Barrington’s authoritative drawl is his calling card as a comic performer. Essentially, Barrington’s languid delivery accounts for one aspect of a carefully crafted persona. Combined with a dazed stage demeanor and a look bringing together Ringo Starr and Bono... Read More
Truth
0 Comments. 646 Views. Posted 2 Oct 2012 @ 4:38pm.
The team from Slow Clap are back, presenting quirky, schizophrenic comedy at its finest. Truth, a sold-out sensation at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, looks poised to conquer this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival. But where to even begin? Dissecting Truth for review is the epitome of a writer’s nightmare: say too little and you’ve not awarded the show due praise. Conversely,... Read More
Melbourne Fringe Festival Satellite Hubs
0 Comments. 1,032 Views. Posted 20 Sep 2012 @ 11:26am.
Temperamental ebullience is an expected trapping of a Melbourne spring, as is the annual Fringe Festival. This encompassing celebration of all things independent art unleashes itself across the city every September, but with a program that doesn’t limit itself to any one practice, form, or even a singular community, finding a place to start can be a daunting experience for first time Fringe... Read More
Melbourne Fringe Festival's iiNet Playlist
0 Comments. 712 Views. Posted 9 Sep 2012 @ 9:21pm.
The Melbourne Fringe deliver an innovation to audiences this year for an interactive Fringe experience, the iiNet Playlist.  The online tool will help attendees plan and share their Festival itineraries in a personalised mix tape, allowing users to add shows to a virtual lineup, purchase tickets and share their plans via social media and email. With over 300 events across the Festival, this... Read More
The Magic and Philosophy of Sunny Leunig
0 Comments. 811 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2012 @ 1:28pm.
Melbourne Fringe Festival brings many great performances to the streets of Melbourne, including Sunny Leunig's A Guide to Unhappiness, a depressingly delightful performance about a Magosopher (pronounced: ma-jos-o-pher). Leunig brings himself to the stage, as well, himself; a magician, philosopher, musician and filmmaker, but mainly the magosopher bit.   Presented as a hapless, awkward... Read More
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2012
0 Comments. 1,475 Views. Posted 28 Aug 2012 @ 3:48pm.
The role that the Melbourne Fringe Festival plays in nurturing, supporting and progressing the arts within this city is unparalleled. First established in 1982 following the closing of the legendary Pram Factory in Carlton, the festival has presented the artistic work of over 50,000 individual and independent artists to millions of Victorians, and its legacy in promoting and presenting the work... Read More
Electric Shorts Scouting For Entrants
0 Comments. 455 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2012 @ 1:19pm.
Calling all aspiring short filmmakers. Electric Shorts is hosting its 9th annual competition for short films at the Melbourne Fringe Festival this year. Each film must be under 30 minutes, in any genre or format, and production must be wholly self-funded. Is this you? Well, read further. For the past eight years Electric Shorts have delivered a variety of 12 short films that challenge, inspire,... Read More
Independent Arts Manager At Melbourne Fringe Festival
0 Comments. 1,826 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 2:36pm.
A rare senior Melbourne Fringe position is now open for applications. This is one of the most impactful positions in the independent arts, fostering the presentation of hundreds of new works per year.  The Independent Arts Manager facilitates artists’ participation in Melbourne Fringe’s programs: managing the open-access Independent Arts Program; curating and managing the Festival Hub... Read More
Butterscotch
0 Comments. 1,271 Views. Posted 5 Feb 2012 @ 3:41pm.
With an imagination that’s both sweet and salty and deemed “utterly captivating...a superb songstress”, it’s no surprise that you need to share yourself with the world.  This month, Melbourne-based cabaret artist, Emma Clair Ford, is getting set to debut her latest solo creation Butterscotch in an exclusive Melbourne season before taking her show to Adelaide audiences for their Fringe... Read More
Melbourne Fringe Festival Awarded Best Major Event
0 Comments. 942 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 4:11pm.
Substantially beneficial for Victoria on an economic, cultural and artistic level The Melbourne Fringe Festival was awarded Best Major Event or Festival at the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards generating a total expenditure of $21.4m last year. Melbourne Fringe reflective of independent arts, each year comprises a large and diverse range of art forms and audiences who come together to experience... Read More
Pond
0 Comments. 1,513 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 2:32pm.
Grit Theatre’s Pond could be a different production to the one I’ve read several lukewarm reviews of. And if it wasn’t for critics’ descriptions of the show’s notable set design, an apartment cum post-industrial wasteland, I'd be convinced that I’d wandered into the wrong theatre.   We open in darkness with a couple (Thomas Browne and Laura Hughes) kneeling on a bed. A slow strobe light... Read More
Pond
0 Comments. 1,062 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 4:01pm.
Grit Theatre’s Pond could be a different production to the one I’ve read several lukewarm reviews of. And if it wasn’t for critics’ descriptions of the show’s notable set design, an apartment cum post-industrial wasteland, I'd be convinced that I’d wandered into the wrong theatre.   We open in darkness with a couple (Thomas Browne and Laura Hughes) kneeling on a bed. A slow strobe light... Read More
Industrial Strength Music News 19/9
0 Comments. 2,297 Views. Posted 19 Sep 2011 @ 10:53am.
Music industry news and gossip with Christie Eliezer. VIRGIN EASES BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE FOR MUSOS   Virgin Australia has loosened up its baggage allowance for the music industry. Individuals can get 32kg (across three pieces of checked baggage) while an additional 32kg can be bought in advance for $15. Bands can 'pool' their baggage allowance across their entourage. But the performers have to... Read More
Melbourne Fringe Festival Program Launch
0 Comments. 2,419 Views. Posted 24 Aug 2011 @ 11:25am.
The program for this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival was launched in grand style this morning by Lord Mayor Robert Doyle at Little Creatures Dining Hall, Brunswick St. Melbourne’s much-loved Fringe Festival is now going into its 29th year. is an annual showcase of emerging talent from our fair city's diverse and thriving independent arts scene.   This year's festival features a myriad of... Read More
The Melbourne Fringe Festival
0 Comments. 2,685 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 9:33am.
It's not normal to be submerged in a three-week festival for eleven months. For Beau McCafferty, Independent Program Producer of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (MFF), it's been a reality for four-and-a-half years. With only a few weeks to go until the Fringe officially launches, McCafferty is calmly gearing up for the three most hectic weeks of his year, but this kind of frenetic energy seems to... Read More
The Melbourne Festival
0 Comments. 2,575 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 9:52am.
Political activism and art are two sides of the same coin. While each epoch in time tells its own story, art personifies the periodic themes by giving a voice to those who make history, rather than to time itself. With the recent uprising of desperate citizens in the Middle East attempting to overthrow their repressive regimes in the name of freedom and individual rights, come a slew of artistic... Read More
Register Now For Melbourne Fringe
0 Comments. 2,164 Views. Posted 10 May 2011 @ 3:09pm.
It might seem like far, far away but registrations open for Melbourne Fringe next month. If you want to be involved in the Melbourne Fringe Festival (one of the biggest and best Fringe Arts festivals in the country) you can register between May 23 and June 3.    To register you'll need a title for your show (so think of one, stat!) and an image as well as a confirmed venue, show times... Read More
Claudia O’Doherty : What Is Soil Erosion?
0 Comments. 2,622 Views. Posted 8 Apr 2011 @ 10:39am.
  Claudia O’Doherty wants to make absolutely sure that people know her new comedy show, What Is Soil Erosion?, is not boring. Given that her last show was called Monsters Of The Deep 3D and featured smoke machines and lasers, it’s doubtful that will be the case. But how the hell do you get smoke and lights into a show about soil erosion? “Well, you get a smoke machine and some lasers, you... Read More
Claudia O’Doherty performs What Is Soil Erosion?
0 Comments. 1,718 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2011 @ 8:12am.
  Claudia O’Doherty wants to make absolutely sure that people know her new comedy show, What Is Soil Erosion?, is not boring. Given that her last show was called Monsters Of The Deep 3D and featured smoke machines and lasers, it’s doubtful that will be the case. But how the hell do you get smoke and lights into a show about soil erosion? “Well, you get a smoke machine and some lasers, you... Read More
From Isolate To Award Winner
0 Comments. 2,428 Views. Posted 17 Mar 2011 @ 10:26am.
At one point during last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, Katy Warner had three people turn up to a performance of her new play These are the isolate. Now she has won awards for the piece and has been invited to renew the season at St Kilda’s Theatre Works.   It all started when Katy Warner, originally from Perth, decided to leave the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where... Read More
From Isolate To Award Winner
0 Comments. 1,566 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2011 @ 3:22pm.
At one point during last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, Katy Warner had three people turn up to a performance of her new play These are the isolate. Now she has won awards for the piece and has been invited to renew the season at St Kilda’s Theatre Works.   It all started when Katy Warner, originally from Perth, decided to leave the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where... Read More
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