Adelaide Fringe Festival
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The Adelaide Fringe Festival is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The event is Australia's largest arts event and the second-largest fringe festival in the world. [1]
The Adelaide Fringe began in 1960 as an alternative to the 'mainstream' Adelaide Festival of Arts. The latter was seen to offer limited opportunity for local and smaller-scale artists. The Adelaide Fringe is an open access event, allowing anyone with ideas and enthusiasm to register in the programme, and so to showcase their arts to the public. [2] For many years the two events were inextricably linked and together created an atmosphere of electric excitement across the city. From 2007 onwards, the Adelaide Fringe will stand alone as an annual event in its own right.
The Adelaide Fringe is widely regarded as one of the best events of its kind in the world [3] and is renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination, spontaneity and fun.[citation needed] Compared to other fringe festivals, it is rivalled in size only by the Edinburgh Fringe. The Fringe programme generates massive enthusiasm, with audience attendance of nearly a million at ticketed shows and free events.
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Reflected in the iconic poster design of a single origami crane made from previous Fringe posters, 2006's Fringe was held with the theme of re:generation. Held between 24 February and 19 March 2006, the festival included a diverse program. The 2006 Adelaide Fringe retained its position as one of the biggest arts festivals in the world, selling almost 190,000 tickets to over 500 events.
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