Welcome to the fabulous
Nelson Fringe Festival

6-15 March 2025

Wow! We had an incredible 2025 festival with around 50 shows in three venues, as well as some workshops and free events. Phew!

Check out the winners and grinners for the 2025 Fringe Awards!

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.

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

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