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New home for independent arts as Melbourne Fringe takes over Trades Hall

After 17 years at North Melbourne Town Hall, the Fringe is taking over the license of the Trades Hall bar. The venue will become the new Festival Hub in September, with programming running all year round.

13 Mar 2019 12:00

Richard Watts

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Two permanent venues for performing artists will support Melbourne’s thriving independent sector year round, as the result of Melbourne Fringe taking up a new residency at Trades Hall in Carlton, at the edge of the CBD.

The Fringe will relocate to Trades Hall from its current premises in Southbank in June, and will run two permanent performance spaces in the Old Ballroom and Annexe, as well as operating the Trades Hall bar.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts