Dunedin Fringe Festival

The Dunedin Fringe Festival, or Dunedin Fringe, is an 11-day fringe arts festival held each March in Dunedin, New Zealand. Initiated in the year 2000,^[1] Dunedin Fringe aims to bring experimental contemporary art to a wider audience and to support the work of emerging artists, attracting artists from throughout New Zealand and overseas.

Independent artist events form the backbone of the Dunedin Fringe Festival and are facilitated through an open-access registration process. This takes place from August – October each year. Funding assistance is made available to New Zealand artists.

While the festival programme primarily features independently produced events by artists, it also promotes a handful of high-profile special events run by the festival including an opening night event on the eve of the festival, and late night line up shows.

Events take place in a wide range of locations across Dunedin's City Centre and suburbs, from theatres to bars, museums to churches, and cycleways to shop windows.

In 2021, over 27,000 people attended artist and festival-produced events.