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Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is Australia’s biggest arts festival and is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, it features more than 7,000 artists from around Australia and the ...
Fuse Festival first ran as Music Business Adelaide in 1996 as an industry development conference, based loosely upon the South By Southwest (SXSW) model for music conferences. It was a non-profit event, supported by state (largely through Arts SA and federal ( Australia Council ) government funding.
Heather Ann Croall AM (born 1967) is an international arts CEO, artistic director and documentary producer, best known for leading Sheffield Doc/Fest which she grew to be one of the best documentary festivals in the world and Adelaide Fringe where she has taken ticket sales from 500,000 a year to a million each year and won many awards for the festival.
It developed a number of incorporated events including Adelaide Writers' Week, Australia's original literary festival; [3] WOMADelaide, the world music festival; and, the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. The Adelaide International was a curated international contemporary visual arts program held in partnership with the Samstag Museum from 2010 to 2014.
Randy (left) and Sammy J post-show in the Garden of Unearthly Delights at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Sammy J (left) with comedic partner Randy at the 2013 Aria Awards in Sydney, Australia. In 2008, McMillan collaborated with puppeteer Heath McIvor on a musical, Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams.
In 2008, Owen received media attention when asked to sing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with French singer/harpist Cécile Corbel after they met on Myspace. [5] Owen was so inspired by Corbel's harp playing that she decided to start playing harp.
Previously, Sheehy was artistic director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts (2006–2008), and Festival Director and Chief executive of Sydney Festival (2002–2005). [6] In January 2012, Melbourne Festival announced the appointment of Josephine Ridge as creative director for the 2013 festival and beyond.
In 2017, Tarrant toured Australia, starting with the Fringe World Festival in Perth, [10] followed by the Adelaide Fringe Festival. [6] Tarrant won the Adelaide Fringe Pick Of the Fringe award in 2019, one of 29 prizes awarded at the closing night ceremony. [11] In January 2023, Tarrant became a board member of the Adelaide Fringe Foundation ...