Welcome to the fabulous
Nelson Fringe Festival

6-15 March 2025

We’re an annual festival in Nelson Whakatū, New Zealand, giving a stage to performers, comedians, storytellers, dancers, musicians and more, for an hour at a time, and always at a cheap ticket price.

We embrace the full range of first-timers to seasoned touring gigsters, presenting around 50 shows in three venues across ten days.

Whether you’re onstage or in the audience, it’s about throwing yourself into a festival of ideas, shows, experiments, adventures and general fringy awesomeness.

We've now locked in our 2025 dates for Thurs 6 to Sat 15 March (hooray!). In mid-August, we'll start accepting Applications for the 2025 festival - sign up to our newsletter to be amongst the first to know.

Plus, we've picked our dates so that we're nestled in between NZ Fringe in Wellington (14 February - 8 March) and Dunedin Fringe Festival (13 - 23 March 2025) - like a little fringey three-way cuddle.

Click here to see the festival programme
that happened in March 2024.