Artist Opportunities
Artist Learning Lab
10am-6pm, Saturday 25 July 2026 | Arts Centre Melbourne
The Melbourne Fringe Artist Learning Lab is a full day of workshops, panel discussions and industry conversations designed for artists who are serious about their practice, whatever stage they're at.
Beginners, mid-career, and experienced artists and producers (or whatever other hat you may wear) are all invited, and with three different streams running simultaneously across Arts Centre Melbourne, you can choose where you need to be.
Budgeting. Marketing. Pitching. Touring. Embedding access. Audience participation. Workshops delivered by experts from across the independent arts industry, all in one building, all in one day. Dip in and out, bounce between spaces, or plant yourself in one stream and dive deep. Then, stick around from 6:00pm for social drinks and a chance to network with industry peers and other artists.
This is everything you wished someone had told you about being an independent arts practitioner, in one building, across one day.
Free for 2026 Festival participants. Please touch base with the Artist Services team if you haven't received your discount code (check the Artist Bulletin!).
Tickets are available to purchase for non 2026 Festival participants. Everyone is welcome.
Radical Access Movie Nights
6pm Wednesday 19 August & Wednesday 16 September 2026 | Arts Centre Melbourne
The disability-led performances your watchlist has been missing.
Melbourne Fringe brings disability-led performance at its sharpest to Arts Centre Melbourne with four chances to catch quality recordings of acclaimed live works by professional companies from across the globe. Each of the four pro-shots will screen once between August and November.
International professional companies making work where access isn’t how its presented but how it’s made. Expect work that’s funny, devastating and technically dazzling, made entirely on its own terms by artists who’ve spent careers refusing the version of accessible arts that gets sanded down for comfort.
The Radical Access Movie Nights are presented as part of Radical Access, Melbourne Fringe’s ten-year initiative with Arts Access Victoria backing ambitious new work by d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists, and bringing acclaimed disability-led performance from across the globe into direct conversation with Melbourne’s own thriving scene.
After each screening, Caroline Bowditch hosts a Q&A with the international artists behind the film, a rare chance to hear directly from the people who made it. A designated Break Out Space is available near the main screening.