Here you’ll find all the information you need about our Fringe Programmed Venues, check out the list of contents below for specific information, or read this page for a full overview
EOI’s are accepted via an online form available here: **https://airtable.com/appKm5FCcwAVgC66W/pag5WZqwdOdsvSDWf/form**
Applications close on the 10th April 11:59pm.
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Festival Hub is a Melbourne Fringe managed collection of venue spaces located in Carlton that aims to represent a broad range of what the Festival has to offer.
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Address: Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton 3053
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You’ve got an idea for a show, great! You’ve started to pull together an amazing team of creative minds to help you on your journey, perfect! Now you’re looking for a centrally located professionally run venue to support you on your journey… Welcome to the Festival Hub.
With the range of pop-up performance spaces, great social vibes our community has come to expect, and exciting breadth and depth of events in the program, we are working with you to create a top-notch Festival experience for artists and audience alike.
Festival Hub plays a crucial role as an access point for audiences and artists throughout the Festival. On any given night there are around 40 events taking place across the venue.
Trades Hall is turned into a festival wonderland with little nooks and alcoves for activations, our main box office, Club Fringe late night parties, and the vibrant Loading Dock Bar, and more hidden throughout the venue (with a building-wide license that allows drinks to be taken into most rooms).
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Meat Market is aa City of Melbourne arts venue in North Melbourne which Melbourne Fringe will be taking over for Fringe Festival 2025
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Address: Cnr Courtney St & Blackwood Sts, North Melbourne VIC 3051
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Featuring a number of large capacity, high production value spaces, this collection of venues will be united by a central garden bar space and programmed with the style of boundary pushing performance works you would associate with Melbourne Fringe.
Unlike Festival Hub these spaces will have longer turn arounds, and larger back of house facilities (plus circus rigging in the Cobblestone Pavilion!) making them perfectly suited to ensemble and high-spectacle works. The iconic Stables spaces, and the Craft Room will also be transformed into a black box theatre perfect for your next production.
For images and some ideas head to Meat Market’s website, and see 2025 Meat Market Venue Information
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Applications for the Festival Hub will open in on the 24th March — and close on the 10th April 2025.
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We anticipate over 200 applications for our Festival Hubs this year, but we will only be able to program 80-100 of these. We have a dedicated focus on representing the breadth of the Festival within our programming, and sometimes pretty amazing works aren’t programmed in the space because we’re looking for variety as much as we are looking for excellence.