Your culture guide for cost-conscious connoisseurs, with a few big-ticket items should you have the chance to splash out.
Spring has sprung early this year in Melbourne, and as arts and culture lovers emerge from hibernation, they may find themselves facing economic headwinds as well as the city’s marvellously moody weather.
Luckily, it’s just the season when our independent arts scene blossoms, the fringe takes centre stage, and the richness and diversity of Melbourne’s arts calendar leaves us no shortage of choice when it comes to free, inexpensive, and underground events. Here’s a guide for cost-conscious connoisseurs, with a few big-ticket items should you have the chance to splash out., which started in 1982 with a motley group of artists called the Fringe Network staging an alternative mini-festival.
You’ll find a much greater range of performances from the experimental edges of theatre, dance, cabaret, circus and other yet-to-be-categorised forms at Fringe. Hot tip: Fringe is also an unofficial testing ground for comics working up new material for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so you can catch some laughs, cheap, before everyone else does.
Fringe tends to take up most of the oxygen in the room, but Melbourne has a welter of other spring festivals and expos catering to every taste, from the lively celebration of Italian food, wine and culture at theIf whips and chains are a bridge too far, Melbourne’s famed East End theatre district offers more mainstream pleasures. A new production of Mary Shelley’s, with elaborate prosthetics for the Monster, is now in its last days at the Princess Theatre.
Dance and music got a little short-changed in this guide – sorry, I’ll make it up next time – but in truth, no guide can cover the vast profusion of cultural activity and community across the city in springtime. Staying alert and curious is key. Melbourne breeds creative ferment in almost every nook and cranny. It mightn’t always give up its secrets easily, the rewards are richer for making the effort to discover them.
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