Sydney Fringe Festival registrations are open now until 30 March and we want YOU! Learn more about our Fringe Managed Venues (“Hubs”), and how we help connect artists to venues and support you throughout the whole process.
At the centre of the Festival are the Fringe-managed venues, known as ‘Sydney Fringe Hubs’.
These are festival-run spaces activated throughout September. Some are existing venues used outside their standard programming; others are non-traditional spaces transformed into pop-up theatres.
Sydney Fringe provides front of house support and a technical package in its Hubs – including lighting, sound and production support – while the creative content remains entirely in the artist’s hands.
‘We take over and open [these spaces] to artists,’ Brunt explains. ‘Essentially, we try to hold their hands through the experience, so they have a supported space where they can come in and just do their art.’
Hubs are particularly suited to emerging and mid-career artists, or to mid-development works. Importantly, the idea doesn’t need to be fully formed at the point of registration.
‘I’ve seen some artists come in and say: ‘I want to do a one person play. It’s going to be a monologue. It’s going to be 60 minutes. I’ll need some lights.’ And that’s probably about as much as they’ll need to tell us just so we can have that programming conversation,’ says Brunt.
