Hobart Fringe Festival 2008

The Hobart Fringe Festival explores the margins of fringe arts to bring you quality new, experimental and exciting acts in 2008 starting from the 2nd of April and continuing through to the 4th of May.

This year we have drawn together a lot of acts; check out the events program: 2008 program for online viewing, or alternatively the PDF for printed distribution.

Pitch Black (NZ)

Pitch Black (NZ), legendary Kiwi electro-dub-deep-beats-unboxable-sounds will play the Loft this Friday, May 2.
Supported by DJ Wasabi (Melb), Spinfx (Melb), Milestone, Outlaw, Rocksteady Eddy, DJ BTC, Project Weekend, Shammie and Mynse, the evening will provide aural pleasure ranging from DUB to minimal.
Pitch Black are renknowed for their unboxable musical style – making music ranging from organic ambient and cutting acid through to thumping rythmic grooves, all underpinned by the delights of dub.

Horse Opera and Patty Hearst Noise Opera

Horse Opera and The Patty Hearst Noise Opera will provide a lot of Fringeness in the last week of the festival.
Performed over three nights from 8pm at the Peacock Theatre (April 30, May 1&2), these acts feature Tennyson references and offal.
Horse Opera, created by Fulbright scholar, Mary Anderson, is a physical theatre piece, drawing on Tennyson’s poem, Ulysses.
Featuring puppetry, masks, live music, video and dance the central character in this modern retelling is a horse.

World of Women Film Festival

Screening over three days at the Peacock Theatre the WOW Film Festival will offer three different programs.
Wide Angle Tasmania and The Hobart Fringe Festival present screenings from the national tour of the WOW film festival.
WOW is a short film festival that promotes and awards the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry and in Oceania.

The Night Market

There are five more nights of the Hobart Fringe Festival.

This week's events will culminate with the festival's much loved Night Market - in Maggies Lane near the corner of Campbell and Brisbane Streets.

The Night Market, which will run between 5.30pm - 9.30 pm on Saturday May 3, will feature over thirty stalls, food, a bar - all to the sounds of a range of musical styles.

Rain or shine, this is an enjoyable and peaceful/riproaring event for everyone. Bring your visitors.

Week Three - here we go

Week two of the festival turned up some delights - packed audiences at The Peacock to see both The Pharmacist and Two Women and a Chair, Melbourne punk band The Dacios supported by local blues act Moe Grizzly, a delightful Buskers Night in Elizabeth Street and of course the inspirational and sold out Fashion Show.

Week three has a lot to offer as well. Hold on for the jazz inspired hard core punk band, Off Minor, from the USA, performing their only Tasmanian show on Tuesday night at the Peacock (licensed all ages).

Super 8 Competition Screening

The Super 8 competition was screened on Tuesday night at the Brisbane Hotel.

As in past years, the screening was the first time that even the film makers had seen the films.

The theme for this year's competition, given to film makers when they collected their films, was 'To Mock a Killing Bird,' and was encompassed in very different manners - though the appearance of plovers, chooks and other fascinator style birds was rife.

The winner, in a field of six films of varying quality, '((///\\\))),' was made by Pip, Emma Jean and Jesse, starring Emma Jean and Sam.

The Fringe Fashion Show - tickets selling fast

Tickets for the ever popular Hobart Fringe Fashion Show are selling fast. The tickets are available from Island Espresso in Elizabeth Street, Hobart for $16/$13.
The Fashion Show, which is a highlight of the Hobart Fringe Calendar, has completely sold out in years past so hurry down to grab your tickets for this exciting and progressive fashion event.
The event will be held upstairs at Sirens on April 11 and 12.

Les Allester Hobart Fringe Festival Archival Photo Exhibition - Date Change

Unfortunately due to a technically challlenged DVD player Les' photo projection exhibition opening has been postponed until Friday the 4th of April. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Help distributing posters needed

We have a number of beautifully designed posters to promote various Hobart Fringe Festival events, but what are lacking is a army of volunteers to place these posters about Hobart or further out. Please contact Sophie Edwards on 0416 252 714 if you are interested in volunteering for this.

Artists and event coordinators, we have access to printing services to print A3 sized posters, if you haven't already sent us a poster, please email it to secretary@hobartfringe.org and specify how many posters you want printed.

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and a big thank you to our other supporting organisations