Welcome to the fabulous 
Nelson Fringe Festival

Nelson Fringe is an annual festival of ideas, experiments, adventures
and general fringey awesomness.

Our next festival will be in March 2025 - we'll have those dates confirmed asap.
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Aloha Infinity

Thurs 14 Mar at 6:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Human

Thurs 14 & Fri 15 Mar at 9:00pm
Theatre

A Wild Love for the World

Thurs 14 & Sat 16 Mar at 9:05pm
Music
Book tickets

Sad Boi, Funny Guy

Thurs 14 Mar at 7:30pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Report to an Academy

Thurs 14, Fri 15 & Sat 16 Mar at 7:30pm
Theatre

The Trial

Thurs 14, Sat 16 & Mon 18 Mar at 7:35pm
Theatre
Book tickets

Taylor Ruddle Panic! At the Buffet

Thurs 14 & Fri 15 Mar at 9:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

I Am

Thurs 14 Mar at 6:00pm
Dance
Book tickets

Dancing with Debra

Thurs 14 & Wed 20 Mar at 6:05pm
Dance
Book tickets

Thomas Chapman Had Potiental

Fri 15, Sat 16 & Sun 17 Mar at 6:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

La Primera Tourné

Fri 15 & Sat 16 Mar at 6:00pm; Sun 17 Mar at 7:30pm
Circus
Book tickets

Plucked Straight from the Sleeve

Fri 15 & Thurs 21 March at 9:05pm
Music
Book tickets

New Show, Who Dis?

Fri 15 & Sat 16 Mar at 7:30pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Catfish

Fri 15 & Sat 16 Mar at 6:05pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Medea

Fri 15, Sun 17 & Tues 19 Mar at 7:35pm
Theatre
Book tickets

Ahoy Me Farties 2: Around the World in 80 Farts

Sat 16 & Sat 23 Mar at 11:00am
Kids
Book tickets

Love at Times

Sat 16 & Sat 23 Mar at 4:30pm
Film

Creative New Zealand Funding Workshop

Sat 16 Mar at 2:00-3:00pm
Workshop
Book tickets

Soundpainting with Alvaro Moreno

Sat 16 Mar at 4:00 – 5:45pm
Workshop
Book tickets

Zine Making Workshop

Sat 16 & Sat 23 Mar at 11:00am – 1:00pm
Workshop
Book tickets

Chris Lippiatt: I’ve Done My Own Research!

Sat 16 & Sun 17 Mar at 9:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Fringe Outdoors

Sat 16 Mar at 11:00am - 1:00pm
Outdoors

Up Late Cabaret

Sat 16 & Sat 23 Mar at 9:00pm
Cabaret
Book tickets

Control Z

Sat 16 Mar at 4:00pm: Sun 17 & Tues 19 Mar at 6:00pm
Kids
Book tickets

The Three Charms

17 Mar at 11:00am & 1:30pm
Kids
Book tickets

Wash Away the Stains

Sun 17 Mar at 7:30pm
Poetry
Book tickets

Forget Me Not

Sun 17 & Mon 18 Mar at 6:05pm
Theatre
Book tickets

Runaway

Sun 17 Mar at 9:00pm
Music
Book tickets

Sad Songs

Mon 18 & Tues 19 Mar at 7:30pm
Music
Book tickets

Creating Her

Thurs 21 & Fri 22 Mar at 12:00pm & 5:00pm
Performance Art

Whore’s Eye View

Mon 18, Tues 19 & Wed 20 Mar at 9:00pm
Theatre
Book tickets

Nelson String Collective

Mon 18 & Thurs 21 Mar at 6:00pm
Music
Book tickets

The Umbrella Project

Tues 19 Mar at 6:05pm
Theatre

The Most Haunted Comedian in New Zealand

Tues 19, Wed 20 & Thurs 21 Mar at 9:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

The Word, The Reckoning & The Rose

Tues 19 Mar at 7:30pm
Poetry
Book tickets

Morgan and Justin Get Ambitious

Tues 19 & Wed 20 Mar at 6:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Magnus Steele

Wed 20 Mar at 6:00pm
Improv
Book tickets

In My Own Words

Wed 20 & Thurs 21 at 7:30pm; Fri 22 Mar at 6:00pm
Theatre
Book tickets

Moonbeanz

Wed 20 & Thurs 21 Mar at 7:35pm
Poetry
Book tickets

Dan Bain: Anxiety Knife

Wed 20 & Thurs 21 Mar at 7:30pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Pudgy Mediocre White Men Solve Your Problems

Wed 20 March at 9:05pm
Improv
Book tickets

BiMillennial Woman

Thurs 21 Mar at 6:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Bluetooth Babydoll

Thurs 21 & Fri 22 Mar at 9:00pm
Music Comedy
Book tickets

Long Ride Home

Thurs 21, Fri 22 & Sat 23 Mar at 6.05pm
Theatre

Leaning In

Fri 22 Mar at 6:00pm
Stand Up

Gormless

Fri 22 at 10:15pm & Sat 23 Mar at 9:00pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Back of the Yearbook

Fri 22 & Sat 23 Mar at 7:30pm
Improv
Book tickets

Snowc*ck

Fri 22 & Sat 23 Mar at 7:30pm
Stand Up
Book tickets

Mind Reader

Fri 22 & Sat 23 Mar at 9:05pm
Magic
Book tickets

False Idol

Fri 22 & Sat 23 Mar at 7:35pm
Music Comedy
Book tickets

SPACE HOLE

Fri 22 at 9:00pm & Sat 23 Mar at 10:15pm
Music Comedy

The Unluckiest Magician

Sat 23 Mar at 6:00pm
Magic
Book tickets

(Not) Cancelled

Sat 23 Mar at 6:00pm
Music Comedy
Book tickets

What's been happening

We have a new venue!

We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that Yaza Café in Montgomery Square will be our new Comedy Club for the 2025 Fringe. Yaza will stay…

21 October, 2024

News

The Elephant in the Room

Join us for a reading of Breffni O'Rourke's new play, The Elephant in the Room. If you're curious about how a…

6 September, 2024

News

MatchMaker

Tuesday 5 November Matchmaker - meeting others on the fringe. Matchmaker are informal meetups where anyone interested in the Fringe can…