They contributed significantly to the final stages of design and planning towards the FRINGE WORLD model and plan. Seven of the world’s leading Fringe directors and producers also gathered on invitation to Perth to participate in the inaugural FRINGE WORLD Summit. Over 150 local, national and international artists took part in 100 plus individual performances over three weekends in 2011. Significant support was given to this pilot enterprise as a significant state initiative care of Lotterywest. In February 2011 a pilot FRINGE WORLD program was staged in the newly purchased De Parel Spiegeltent in the Perth Cultural Centre as a taster, teaser and tester towards the launch of a full Fringe festival in 2012. The consultation revealed that there was great interest in this potential, and FRINGE WORLD was born.
Consequently, in 1988 the organisation decided to move the Fringe from summer to spring, and to re-brand it as Artrage Festival, an annual festival dedicated to the presentation of alternative independent arts - a format that was followed until the organisation’s 25th ‘Silver’ Festival Anniversary in 2008.Īfter the Silver Festival and during a large refurbishment of the musical venue that ARTRAGE managed, The Bakery, ARTRAGE instigated a wide sector, stakeholder and community consultation around the idea of reintroducing a genuine independent ‘Fringe’ to the Perth summer. At the time, Perth lacked the necessary critical mass of artists, venues, audiences and sponsors necessary to sustain the ‘Fringe’ alongside the Festival of Perth (Perth Festival).
The origin of ARTRAGE was as the Festival Fringe Society of Perth, established in 1983.
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