Fringe benefits

[Natasha]

Fringe benefits

http://mcv.e-p.net.au/features/fringe-benefits-4037.html
9/17/2008

Cramming into Trades Hall at 11am midweek may not suit everybody, but
for the launch of The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008 program,
nothing could have been more appropriate.

The Melbourne Fringe Festival prides itself on demolishing boundaries,
and to see be-suited politicians, the media and fashionably attired
arts administrators rubbing shoulders with scruffy artists was poetry
in motion. It was also a powerful statement from the Fringe organisers
that, while the festival may have the support of big media players
such at The Age and Channel 10, it still retains its identity as a
challenging, alternative arts event.