Sustainability

Melbourne Fringe is committed to organisational and environmental sustainability in meeting our responsibility to our artists, our staff and volunteers, our funding bodies and partners, and our communities, as stakeholders.

Our challenge as the independent arts Festival in Australia’s biggest independent arts city is to make sure we’re providing our artists with the resources they need to maximise their artistic impact and longevity with limited resources. Melbourne Fringe enhance our sustainability through:

  • Entering into partnerships with the most significant and responsible community-oriented organisations in public transport, hospitality and production.
  • Enhancing our handover, induction, professional development and staff retention strategies; investing in our staff, interns and volunteers.
  • A greener Festival: providing resources and support for our artists to make their own practices more sustainable.
  • Promoting energy and production best practice through our material choices for the Fringe Hub and Fringe Club
  • Ensuring we’re receiving the most up-to-date, quality advice.
  • Conducting regular environmental audits, alongside financial, operational and governance audits, ensuring that our maintenance cycles align and support our sustainability.
EconSearch Our economic impact partner EconSearch is currently auditing Melbourne Fringe's carbon footprint. We'll keep you posted.

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We're working closely with our friends at Sustainable Footprint to reduce our footprint. 

Sustainable Footprint recently completed an audit of our office and we are now taking steps to address as many of these issues as we have control over.

Sustainable Footprint are also working with us, and with artists, to develop checklists of sustainable and environmentally firendly options for Fringe productions.
We're very proud to be working with Yarra Trams to ensure that you can find your way to Festival shows and events in the most sustainable way possible.  And we all know that public transport is the green option right?!?!  If you're wanting to get to the Fringe Hub via tram, just hop on the Route 57 that runs up Elizabeth St. Don't forget to use the awesome TramTracker which gives you detailed stop info while you're on the go.