The Adelaide Fringe Festival is one of the world's biggest arts festivals and is held biennially in Adelaide, South Australia.

The Adelaide Fringe evolved in the early 1970s as a reaction against the establishment and the then 'mainstream' Adelaide Festival of Arts. Today the two events are inextricably linked and together create an atmosphere of electric excitement across the city. During Fringe and Festival time, Adelaide and its visiting community are swept up in a frenzy of arts consumption.

The Adelaide Fringe is renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination, spontaneity and fun, and is widely regarded as one of the best events of its kind in the world. Compared to other fringe festivals, it is rivalled in size only by the Edinburgh Fringe. The Fringe programme generates massive enthusiasm, with audience attendances exceeding 850,000 in 2000 and in 2002.

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• Adelaide Fringe Festival