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Wanting to be part of Fringe? Need funding for your event or venue? Look no further!

Please note that all Grant Streams for the 2024 Adelaide Fringe Season have closed. Stay tuned to hear more about the 2025 Season Fringe Fund.

The Adelaide Fringe Fund grants support creatives, collectives, producers and venues to make their Adelaide Fringe season ambitions a reality. 

For our 2024 season, there were three grant streams available:

Open 19 July – 23 August 2023:

  1. Participate
  • Up+Running: $5,000
  • Level-Up: $10,000
  1. First Nations Grants
  • Up+Running: $5,000
  • Level-Up: $10,000

Open 2 October 2023 – 10 February 2024:

  1. Quick Response Micro Marketing Grants - $500 - $1,000 (Grant applications will not be accepted for this category until 2 October, 2023)

You can apply for funds to cover Operational costs, Artist Access, Audience Access and Regional Touring costs, a selection of these, or a single category.

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Key Dates

19 July Participate & First Nations Grants OPEN from 5pm

19 July Fringe Fund Online Info Session – Watch HERE!

31 July Venue Info Session – RSVP here

1 August Venue registrations open

2 August Artist Info Session – RSVP here

23 August Participate & First Nations Grants CLOSE

1 September Event registrations open

25 September Adelaide Fringe will begin notifying successful applicants

2 October Quick Response Micro-Marketing Grants OPEN

18 October Printed guide cut-off for event registrations

10 February Quick Response Micro-Marketing Grants CLOSE

Who Can Apply?

  • All South Australian, Australian and international creatives presenting an event during Adelaide Fringe 2024 
  • Artists, collectives and producers in their first 5 years of practice AND Mid-Career and established creatives
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives 
  • South Australian emerging artists
  • South Australian producers and programmers
  • South Australian venues hosting a minimum of twelve sessions during the 2024 Adelaide Fringe festival

PLEASE NOTE: If you were a successful Artist Fund recipient in 2023 you will be able to apply for our 2024 grants if the event you are applying to fund did not receive funding from the Adelaide Fringe as part of the 2023 festival.  

PLEASE NOTE: You are not eligible to apply for a Fringe Fund grant if the proposed event was a successful recipient of a 2023 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund grant, and you are applying for the same type of funding (this does not apply to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants). If your event received funding through the 2023 Artist Fund Grants we will only fund Regional Touring and Artists and Audience Access for that event. However, we will not fund Regional Touring and Artists and Audience Access if you received this form of funding for the 2023 festival. 

PLEASE NOTE: You have the option of applying for multiple funding streams, but we will aim to distribute our resources to as many applicants as possible and are unlikely to fund multiple grant applications from a single individual, collective or organisation. We strongly recommend that you ensure your proposed plans are achievable and realistic. 

Stream 1: Participate 

Up + Running: $5,000

  • Open to local, interstate and international artists, collectives, producers and SA venues
  • For Emerging, Mid-career and Established creatives

Level-Up: $10,000

  • Open to local, interstate and international artists, collectives and producers
  • For established works presenting as an Adelaide Fringe Premiere event

Stream 2: First Nations Grants

Up + Running: $5,000

  • Open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, collectives, producers and venues
  • For Emerging, Mid-career and Established creatives

Level-Up: $10,000

  • Open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, collectives and producers 
  • For established works and Adelaide Fringe Premiere events 
  • $10,000 grants are only available to support the presentation of Adelaide Fringe Premiere works. Events that have been presented elsewhere are eligible for funding.  

What Will We Fund?

You can apply for our Up + Running $5,000 grants or $10,000 Level-Up grants, through our two streams mentioned above, to assist in the following areas: 

Operational Costs

  • Event development costs
  • Hiring of rehearsal space
  • Venue operational costs
  • Venue programming
  • Wages
  • Mentorship fees
  • Marketing costs
  • Other costs associated with your event
  • Capital purchases and equipment hire (renovations or projects not directly related to Adelaide Fringe events will not be funded)

Audience and Artist Access

  • Initiatives to remove barriers to participation for artists and audiences
  • Audience access provisions including Auslan interpretation, audio description, ramps etc.
  • Access provisions for event participants including interpretive services and physical accommodations, such as access ramps and chair lifts

  Regional Touring

  • Costs associated with taking your event to South Australia’s regional and remote areas throughout the Adelaide Fringe season, including accommodation, travel costs and wages.
  • Your season must include a minimum of three sessions in regional or remote South Australia to qualify

Eligibility

Up + Running (First Nations & Participant Stream)

  • While you do not need to have a confirmed venue to apply, you must be in communication with a potential venue, or be able to provide a list of three venues you plan to approach.

Level-Up (First Nations & Participant Stream)

  • Requirements include a minimum run of two weeks, with a minimum of six sessions, during the 2024 Adelaide Fringe season.
  • While you do not need to have a confirmed venue to apply, you must be in communication with a potential venue, or be able to provide a list of three venues you plan to approach.
  • Priority will be given to those applications from international candidates that demonstrate collaboration with a South Australian based organisation, venue, collective or creative.
  • Budgets should include appropriate levels of payment to participating arts professionals, collaborators and consultants involved in the staging of this event. Pay rates should be in line with relevant Live Performance Award or NAVA rates of compensation. 
  • Requirements include a minimum run of two weeks, with a minimum of six sessions, during the 2024 Adelaide Fringe season. 
  • Applications should include evidence of realistic and achievable planning and resource allocation 
  • Where relevant, provide evidence that you have considered and addressed any access issues associated with your event. 
  • You should include evidence of appropriate consultation with participants, audiences, or communities involved in your event.  
  • Events with evidence of strong audience engagement and development strategies will be prioritised
  • Events that include regional touring, and creatives travelling to metro areas from regional and remote areas, are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Grant Application Assessment Criteria

In assessing grant applications we will consider the following criteria: 

  • Is this something we’ve seen before? 
  • Will this concept find an audience at Adelaide Fringe?
  • Does this event add something unique to the Adelaide Fringe program? 
  • Is this concept creatively ambitious and exciting? 
  • Are the creative ambitions, logistical requirements and budget clearly articulated, realistic and achievable? 
  • Does this creative team have the capacity to effectively carry out this event? 
  • Are best practice accessibility and inclusivity taken into account?
  • How will this project impact the careers and artistic and cultural practices of those involved?

While applications may meet the assessment criteria, applicants are not guaranteed an Adelaide Fringe Fund grant.

Stream 3: Quick Response Micro-Marketing Grant

Quick response Marketing Micro-Grants are available to events and venues registered for the 2024 Adelaide Fringe. They are intended to support your marketing campaign, to provide a top-up to your resources, and help you connect with your Fringe audience. These will open in October 2023. 

Option 1: Determine your own marketing strategy (With this option you must supply a marketing plan and budget) 

Option 2: Funding to cover an Adelaide Fringe marketing or advertising package, to the value of $1,000. 

You can apply for $500 - $1,000

  • Applications will be assessed fortnightly
  • Domestic and international applicants are encouraged to apply.
  • Funds are available to independent creatives, producers and small organisations. 
  • These grants will be available until all allocated funds are exhausted 
  • Applications will be accepted from 2 October 2023 through to 10 February 2024.
  • Artists who have not previously received funding as part of the 2024 Fringe Fund will be prioritised

Funds can be used to assist with:

  • Marketing costs associated with your event or program of events
  • Marketing costs associated with your venue
  • Adelaide Fringe Venue branding packs
  • Adelaide Fringe Social marketing packages
  • Adelaide Fringe Advertising packages

How to Apply?

Follow this link to apply!

Watch the Info Session

Further Information

You can also read our in-depth Applicant Resource here.

 

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