VISION
In 2019 we celebrated a decade of Sydney Fringe. It was our largest festival ever and saw over 1600 performances by over 2200 artists hit the streets of Greater Sydney across 25 postcode areas. These past two years we intended on pushing the boundaries of what we could achieve as Sydney’s independent Festival. Of course, the Covid-19 crisis meant that our 2020 and 2021 activity was completely reimagined, and we presented an online international collaboration- Global Fringe. In 2022, we are back and we are bigger than ever.
Each September culture creators from all over the city join forces with us to demonstrate the type of city they want to live in all year round. As an open-access festival, our program is curated by our artists for our audiences. Fringe provides a platform for Sydney stories by Sydney voices in their originating landscape. Where else can you see hundreds of world premieres made in your backyard? And if you are stopping by, a visitor to our beautiful city then our annual festival is the perfect place to gain an understanding of how Sydney is feeling, what we are doing and where we are going.
The Sydney we love is vibrant, experimental, expressive, playful, fun, creative, connected and diverse. We look forward to a day when our creative communities are adequately resourced, effectively supported and valued for the contribution they make to our great global city. Until then we will continue to celebrate together each September as Sydney Fringe works with our community to transform the landscape of our city into unique experiences not found at any other time of the year. Connect to the city in new ways.
As we emerge from the ravages of the pandemic we will need our independent artists, thinkers and creators more than ever. They will be a key contributor to the recovery process and a new vision for the future. Sydney needs its Fringe Festival more than ever before.