Fringe Festival lights up

Highly flammable performers Dan Hendra (left) and Neil Dudley light up the Otago Museum Reserve....
Highly flammable performers Dan Hendra (left) and Neil Dudley light up the Otago Museum Reserve. Photo by Linda Robertson.
The Dunedin Fringe Festival bursts into life tomorrow and is promising to light up the central city landscape.

More than 60 national and international acts will feature in the festival over the next two weeks.

Director Paul Smith said it was the strongest and most diverse line-up since the festival was launched alongside the Otago Festival of the Arts in 2000. It is now an annual stand-alone event.

‘‘There's a real sense of anticipation building. The artists are already starting to arrive and people are converging on Dunedin from all over the place for this festival,'' Mr Smith said.

‘‘Dunedin has a fantastic reputation artistically among artists. We'd encourage everyone to get out and enjoy the fun.''

The focus of the Fringe moves this year from the Octagon to the Otago Museum Reserve, which will be transformed today into a Fringetown hub.

The acts, ranging from comedy, dance, theatre and music to performance, film and visual arts, will start appearing on the streets and in locations around Dunedin.

The festival will be launched at 6pm tomorrow with the ‘‘Twilight Language'' multimedia exhibition in the former Dunedin North post office.

That will be followed at 8pm with the Southern Lights opening spectacular at the Otago Museum Reserve, featuring aerial performances by Wellington-based Fuse Productions and music by The Tweeks, Onanon and electronica exponent Sonic Smith.

The Fringe Festival will conclude with the Fringe Awards Night on Sunday, April 13.

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