Partner with Sydney Fringe

Partner with Sydney Fringe to support thousands of performers, events and venues to realise their creative potential.

Growing each year in footprint and diversity, we are Sydney’s festival. With 89 venues, 460+ events, 3,000+ artists and 103,000+ attendees at our 2025 festival, we collectively contributed over $49.1 million in economic impact to the city. We are a celebration of the amazing work of independent artists, art makers and performers.

Each year we invite audiences to explore undiscovered parts of the city for new experiences and fill every corner of Sydney with fierce, brave, delicious, experimental and extraordinary work. For all sponsorship, marketing and fundraising enquiries For The Sydney Fringe please get in touch with our Partnerships team below.

SYDNEY FRINGE’S MISSION

Innovating, re-imagining and invigorating Sydney’s art and theatre landscape.

“Sydney Fringe works year-round with our partners to open cultural spaces across the city, activating unused buildings, transforming laneways, and giving independent artists somewhere to take risks. Every September, those partnerships come alive as pop-up venues reshape the cityscape and audiences discover parts of Sydney they’ve never seen before. That’s what excites us most, creating a lasting shift in how the city makes room for art.”

Patrick Kennedy
CEO, Sydney Fringe

We are so proud to work with our partners to build on the cultural fabric of our city and showcase brands through epic events, activations and exquisite moments.

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2025 Partnership Highlights

Sideshow at The Rocks

The Rocks (PMNSW) and the NSW Government

Sydney Fringe transformed The Rocks into a month-long precinct of live performance throughout September, anchored by the critically acclaimed When Night Comes and surrounded by free street activations that drew audiences through the iconic laneways and across public spaces they’d normally walk straight past. Local businesses became part of the fabric of the event, with foot traffic, dwell time, and after-dark energy shifting the character of the precinct well beyond the performances themselves.

Fool's Paradise

The Entertainment Quarter & Head First Acrobats

Fool’s Paradise, our Festival Garden built in partnership with The Entertainment Quarter and Head First Acrobats, ran for six weeks of cabaret, comedy, circus and acrobatics, drawing more than 77,000 people into the precinct. Within that, Fringe Kids offered a dedicated two-week season of children’s performance, turning the garden into a daytime family destination before it shifted back to adults-only programming each evening.

Fringeville

Georges River Council

Now in its fourth year with Georges River Council, Fringeville took over Hurstville Plaza for a single night that turned the civic centre into a free outdoor performance precinct. The 2025 edition brought local arts and cultural collectives into the programming alongside Sydney Fringe artists, a model that’s deepened each year as the partnership has grown, and one of the clearest examples of how Fringe activates beyond the inner city.

Feast

Georges River Council & Hurstville Entertainment Centre

Feast, hosted by Chinese-Australian comedian and food writer Jennifer Wong, paired six of Sydney’s funniest performers with a chef for a night of storytelling and Korean cuisine at Hurstville Entertainment Centre. Part stand-up show, part communal dinner, it’s the kind of format that only works in a Fringe context: unexpected, intimate, and impossible to replicate in a conventional venue. Feast was the second of two Georges River Council-supported events in the 2025 program, reflecting a partnership that continues to expand in both scale and ambition.

In The Key of G

George Place

In The Key of G returned to George Place for its second year, once again transforming the building’s grand foyer into a live performance space for an evening of improvised music. Curated by musician and composer Cameron Undy, the program brought professional improvisers together with emerging and amateur musicians for an unrepeatable night of collaboration and live composition. It’s a format built around the venue itself: music made for and shaped by the space it’s performed in.