Welcome to the fabulous
Nelson Fringe Festival

5-14 March 2026

We’re an annual festival that takes place every March in Nelson Whakatū, New Zealand, giving a stage to actors, comedians, storytellers, dancers, musicians and more.

All shows are about an hour long, and always at a cheap ticket price.

Applications are now closed for the 2026 Fringe, We are scheduling the festival and will be in contact with companies soon.

Click here to see the festival programme
that happened in March 2025.

We pick our festival dates so that we're nestled in between NZ Fringe in Wellington and Dunedin Fringe Festival - like a little fringey three-way cuddle.

This means that fringe artists can tour to all three NZ fringes, as well as the the big ones in Oz: Perth Fringe World, Adelaide Fringe and Newcastle Fringe Festival.