Hobart Fringe Festival

As promised download draft constitution,

A Special General Meeting will be held on Tuesday the 24th of February at the Salamanca Arts Centre meeting room, near the Long Gallery. The meeting will start at 7pm.

All current financial members are entitled to vote. If you would like to become a financial member or your membership has lapsed and you'd like to renew it, please contact us at secretary@hobartfringe.org

We've been getting quite a few requests for information about the 2009 Hobart Fringe Festival. This is official notice that the 2009 Hobart Fringe Festival is scheduled for November; and expressions of interest forms will be available here shortly.

All interested parties (members or non-members alike) are invited to this years Annual General Meeting (AGM) for Hobart Fringe Festival Inc. The meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 23rd of September at 27 Tasma St, in the CAST building.

We are particularly interested in inviting new enthusiastic people onto the board of management to work towards the next festival which we have slated for sometime in October 2009. If you are interested (or know somebody who is interested), please click "read more" below for more information.

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 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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.