Support the 2025 Dunedin Fringe Festival!

“Dunedin Fringe is an opportunity to step outside of everyday routines and explore the creativity and curiosity of others. Life is better with art and people to share it with.” – Dunedin Fringe 2024 audience member

What is the Dunedin Fringe Festival?

Dunedin Fringe Festival (13-23 March 2025) is an annual 11-day multidisciplinary arts festival that’s open to anyone who wants to participate — any form of creative expression, any level of experience, anything goes! Each year 500= artists ignite Ōtepoti with their creativity, providing joyful, challenging and transformative cultural experiences that bring 12,000= members of the community together. Dunedin Fringe provides a platform for creative expression that helps nurture communities, and supports the work of emerging artists and the development of new and experimental work. 2025 will be our 25th birthday!

Why do we need your help?

Like most arts and culture organisations across the motu, we’ve experienced a significant reduction in funding from most of our funding sources this year. That reduction equates to $62,000 less in funding than we had for the 2024 Dunedin Fringe Festival. 

Although we were very lucky to receive Creative New Zealand Organisations funding in August 2024 to help support all Dunedin Fringe’s programming (Dunedin Fringe Festival, Amped Music Project, the NZ Young Writers Fest, Te Whare o Rukutia and White Box Gallery) for the coming 12 months, we need to raise additional funds for Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025.

We need your help to support artists to create vibrant, affordable and inclusive experiences for audiences to enjoy. We’re running this Boosted campaign to raise funds for:

Fringe Artist Grants: 75 cents in every dollar given will support grants made directly to artists to help them develop and present work for the Dunedin Fringe Festival. These grants are often the difference between artists being able to pay themselves or not; between a show breaking even or running at a loss. They’re a low barrier way to get much needed resources into the hands of creative talent.

Fringe contract staff: 25 cents in every dollar given will go towards paying the contractors who make the Dunedin Fringe Festival possible. Often artists in their own right, they bring their unique talents to the festival and support others to realise their creative vision. These roles help keep arts workers in the Ōtepoti community.

“What the Fringe does for Dunedin is incredible. It is the single most consistent source for new performing arts in the city.”

– Dunedin Fringe 2024 audience member

“Dunedin Fringe is a leader in the arts world when it comes to inclusive creativity”

– 2024 Best in Fringe winner and Māori Artist Grant recipient Charles N Charge

Please donate and share if you can, and we look forward to celebrating our 25th year with you in March 2025!