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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Jessie and Other Stories

Thu 6 & Mon 10 Mar at 6:00pm

Rubber Gloves: The Glad Rags Story

Thu 6 & Fri 7 Mar at 6:00pm; Sat 8 Mar at 9:00pm
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The Girmit

Thu 6 & Fri 7 Mar at 6:00pm
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My Life is Based on a True Story

Thu 6 & Thu 13 Mar at 7:30pm; Fri 7 Mar at 9:00pm

Can’t Hear Her Voice

Thu 6 & Fri 7 Mar at 7:30pm
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Silly Skitts (previously Double Bill)

Thu 6 at 9:00pm & Fri 7 Mar at 7:30pm
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SPACE HOLE

Thu 6 & Fri 7 Mar at 9:00pm

Spinster

Fri 7 & Sat 8 Mar at 6:00pm

BOTTOM SURGERY

Fri 7 & Sun 9 Mar at 9:00pm
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Robert Haley – ELIXIR

Fri 7 & Sat 8 Mar at 9:00pm

Free Fringe Outdoors

Sat 8 & Sat 15 Mar at 11:00am-1:00pm

Frankenstein Abridged

Sat 8 & Sun 9 Mar at 6:00pm
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Sat 8 & Sun 9 Mar at 7:30pm

Steiner and the Snake

Sat 8 & Sun 9 Mar at 7:30pm
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Cheese Wraps & Blueberries

Sat 8 & Sun 9 Mar at 7:30pm

A Stand-up Show!

Sat 8 & Tues 11 Mar at 9:00pm
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Up Late Cabaret

Sat 8 & Sat 15 Mar at 9:00pm
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Nilguen Yalay: When the Dragonfly Emerges

Sun 9 Mar at 4:00pm & Sat 15 Mar at 5:30pm
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The Extra

Sun 9 Mar at 4:30pm & Mon 10 Mar at 6:00pm
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Midlife Crisis

Mon 10 Mar at 7:30pm

A Year and a Day

Mon 10, Tues 11 & Wed 12 Mar at 7:30pm
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Passing Through

Mon 10 & Tues 11 Mar at 7:30pm
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The Brilliance of Broken Glass

Mon 10 & Tue 11 Mar at 9:00pm
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Songs and Chats

Tues 11 Mar at 6:00pm

The Elephant in the Room

Tues 11, Wed 12 & Thu 13 Mar at 6:00pm

The Uber-cool Musical

Tues 11, Wed 12 & Thu 13 Mar at 6:00pm & 7:30pm

Dance with Dementia

Wed 12, Thu 13 & Fri 14 Mar at 6:00pm
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I’m Proud of You

Wed 12 Mar at 6:00pm
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I Was a Teenage Racist

Wed 12 & Thu 13 Mar at 7:30pm
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Only Bones – Daniel Nodder

Wed 12 & Thu 13 Mar at 7:30pm
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Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers

Wed 12, Thu 13 & Fri 14 Mar at 9:00pm
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Captain Houndstooth

Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15 Mar at 9:00pm
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The Magic Shop

Fri 14 Mar at 4:30-5:40pm
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blip

Fri 14 & Sat 15 Mar at 6:00pm
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Tekau (10)

Fri 14 & Sat 15 Mar at 7:30pm
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FunnYouth

Sat 15 Mar at 4:30pm
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What's been happening

Bingo Night! on 21 Oct

Looking for something different to do? Join us for our first ever Bingo Night! It's not your grandma's bingo night…

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Grants!

Thanks to support from Creative NZ, Nelson Fringe is able to offer support to artists from the following communities to…

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Matchmaker on 28 Aug

Matchmaker – meeting others on the fringe. Matchmaker are informal meetups where anyone interested in the Fringe can come along and…

The Blunderstudy on 28 Aug

Join us for a reading of Justin Eade's new play, The Blunderstudy. When struggling theatre director Martin Quincannon finally gets his…