The Castlemaine Fringe Festival’s 2023 program was launched with a special community celebration at the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens Tearooms on Sunday night.
The evening featured free live entertainment, local beer, wine and ciders, a shared supper and facepainting and circus skills with The Connected Circus.
The Fringe will celebrate its 30 anniversary in 2023 with a massive program proudly produced by Print Together.
Fringe Festival director Azzy Jay warmly welcomed everyone to the launch and thanked the incredible working group which had helped to put the program together.
“I’m a bit emotional. It’s taken a lot of work to get to this point. It’s really wonderful to be able to present a program of events which brings people together,” Azzy said.
The Fringe will kick off with an opening night extravaganza on Friday March 17 in Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine with local legends So Much Soul and the original Fringe Samba band, plus roving performers, dance acts and MainFM DJ’s!
The festival will also include a massive theatre program at the Phee Broadway Theatre, free events such as the Reactivate Street Party which feature more than 100 performers and projections and will be staged over four venues in the town centre, family friendly gigs including the Monster Mash Day Party in Victory Park on March 25, Castlemaine Idyll at Lot 19, an Art Window Trail, 30th anniversary exhibition at the Phee, exhibitions, performances and much more.
The Fringe are also thrilled to be teaming up with the Castlemaine State Festival to host after parties in their ‘Big Top’ on the Western Reserve with a Cabaret to kick off the first event on March 24. The Fringe Festival will run until April 2.
Community members are encouraged to consider taking up a membership with the Fringe Festival to help make it all happen.
Be sure to grab a free program and get behind this incredible event. For more information and tickets visit www.castlemainefringe.org.au.