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K2TOG has briefed a top-secret army to undertake a soft midnight blitz of the city. Disparate art forms will join forces to completely transform your experience of trams, Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul's Church. Be on your best watch, this crafty attack may disappear as soon as it arrives...
Looking Up is a series of uniquely shaped temporary light boxes, which display text from workshop participants with disabilities. Scattered throughout the streets and laneways of South Melbourne, Prahran and Windsor, the light boxes aim to activate a sequence of surprising and poignant encounters within public space.
Melbourne is submerged now. Most of the people have left. But... what would tempt you to its depths? What might rise to the surface? CuriousWorks' have hatched 'Overflow', an interactive art installation projected upon the East Shard as a vision of a possible future for Federation Square.
Trace Elements, straight from a successful season at Arts House, and First Impression Youth Theatre, from South Morang, have been hanging out together on the edge of town. Now they're hitting the city to present a Le Parkour show that delivers a fresh perspective on the challenge of getting from A to B.
Fresh from opening the Adelaide Festival of the Arts 2008, Team Loko is back and we're up to our usual tricks, and a whole bunch of new ones. This time we're causing mayhem in Fed Square and as the sun's going down we'll be lighting it up with some electrifying feats of skill, stunts and stupidity.
Totem is a collection of dolls created by artists to reflect how they truly feel themselves to be. These dolls are more than just simple children's toys, they are powerful symbols of who we think we are, the internal workings of the human mind given form and are honest, heartfelt expressions of self.
Fringe Furniture 2008 - MAKE YOUR MARK
Fringe Furniture 2008 gets personal as we explore the marks, imprints and impressions which occur as we furnish our daily lives. Whether you are an artist, designer, viewer or user of object design - what is your mark?
Digital Fringe - broadcasting to 1000's of screens across cyberspace and the nation Guerrilla projections from the Mobile Projection Unit Showcasing digital arts from all over digitalfringe.com.au
Over ninety percent of The Age 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival is made up of artists living, practising, and presenting work in Melbourne. This makes our Fringe unique, and we're extremely proud to be showcasing some of finest new material to come out of Melbourne each year.
For the last two months 25 Fringe artists have been mentored by an experienced arts practitioner. They have participated in master classes and been provided with rehearsal space.
Melbourne Fringe is not just a festival, we're also proud to provide professional development opportunities for independent artists throughout the year.
Thank you to all the mentors that have been involved and good luck to all our participating artists.
Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ Mix-up
Melbourne Town Hall's Grand Organ gets turned inside out and upside down for this one-off musical experience.
Ollie, Ryan and Will (keys, bass and drums from the Cat Empire) bring their trip-fish-chip-hop-scotch-on-the-jazz/rocks stylings for a night of improvised steamfunk that fits somewhere between Sebastian Bach and JS Bach. Chris Abrahams (The Necks) shares his unique oceanic meditations.
