The 2022 festival runs from 6 – 23 October 2022. These dates will not change due to COVID-19.
Right here, on this website. Head to the what’s on page to browse the full program, or give us a call on 03 9660 9666.
We can’t ignore the COVID-sized elephant in the room, and we have planned a beautiful Festival program full of digital and socially distant events. Due to the Victorian Government’s current COVID-19 Roadmap, in-person events will not be able to proceed in metro Melbourne this year.
Please adhere to Melbourne Fringe’s detailed COVID-Safe plan to ensure the safety of audiences, artists and staff. For more information on our plan, see our Covid Safety page.
If we need to reschedule, cancel or reduce the capacity of an event due to COVID-19, ticket holders will be contacted directly with instructions and options. We’ll do our best to accommodate everyone as quickly as possible.
The vast majority of events in the 2021 program are digital or undertaken solo in public space, so attending venues and gathering in large groups will not pose an issue this year. However, if you have booked for a socially-distant event involving other people, and you are no longer able to attend due to any COVID malarkey, we won’t hold your money ransom! Just get in touch with us as soon as you can and we will talk you through your refund and exchange options.
Our full refund and exchange policy is available in our terms and conditions.
If you’ve booked tickets for events at past Festivals or at Fringe Common Rooms you may already have an account. Try resetting your password here, or contact the ticketing team on boxoffice@melbournefringe.com.au or (03) 9660 9666.
Your tickets will have been emailed to the address you used to login. Double check your junk/spam. You can also access your tickets on your account by clicking My Orders and Tickets when you are logged in.
Yes! There are always heaps of quality free events in the Festival program. Check out all this year’s free events here.
It’s our new ticketing initiative to help get money into artists’ pockets while reducing price barriers for audiences. Flexible Pricing allows you to see shows at a price you can afford – whether that’s full price, a little less, or a little more.
We developed a bespoke platform for hosting a wide variety of digital events. Digital Fringe had its first outing at VCR Fest in July-Aug 2020, and then at the 2020 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It’s back in 2021 with a range of on demand and scheduled events. Check ’em out here.
Digital events are either scheduled, meaning they’re only available at the advertised date(s) and time(s) or on demand, meaning you can attend at any time during the advertised date range. You can filter the what’s on page and check event listings to find out what’s what.
Unless otherwise specified events as part of Digital Fringe are viewable from anywhere in the world. All advertised times until 2 October are in AEST, and from 2-17 October advertised times are in AEDT.
You will be sent a unique URL and instructions in your E-ticket. You can also access your digital events from your Fringe Account.
Lucky for you, we’ve got a hold page dedicated to Digital Fringe FAQs. It’s just like this one, but without the other stuff. Head to the Digital Fringe Help page for answers to all your questions.
Melbourne Fringe is committed to access and inclusion for all people. We believe in the Social Model of Disability, where disability is caused by a society and environment with physical, attitudinal, communication and social barriers. It’s our responsibility to create a Festival that reduces these barriers to enable full participation by all people.
We endeavour to make our Fringe produced and Signature events as accessible as possible, and we’ve also educated our independent artists in the open access program around accessibility through resources, info sessions and one-on-one meetings, and have asked them to provide accurate and up to date accessibility information.
You can filter the program by whether a performance is captioned, Auslan interpreted, audio described, relaxed or sensory friendly, has assistive listening available, has tactile tours available, as well as their level of visual and aural content.
We recognise that the experience of disability and accessibility is diverse and unique to individuals, and that artists and audience members still face barriers to access, and we strive to remove as many of these as we can. We understand that we won’t always get it right, and we always love to receive feedback about how we can improve as well as what we did well.
Click here to learn more about the Festival’s access, including a key of all our access icons.
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an open-access Festival, which means that everyone is welcome and anyone can participate. Registrations are closed for 2021. Head over to our Artist Registration page for more info.
An Open Access festival means anyone can be a part of it, and all work is presented by the artists or their independent producers.
Yes! Check out the Jobs and Volunteers page for all the information. Applications close on Sunday 29 August.
Each year, Melbourne Fringe offer a range of highly sought-after roles in the independent arts, as well as structured learning opportunities in the form of internships (unpaid). The majority of our recruitment occurs from June onwards in preparation for the Festival. Opportunities appear on this website in our Jobs and Volunteers section. To be the first to hear about the opportunities we offer, sign up to our eNews.
For all media enquiries, please contact our publicist, Adam Valentine, on adam@melbournefringe.com.au or 0411 302 769.