Fringe Club moves out of parklands

InReview

The Adelaide Fringe Festival’s exclusive artist’s bar, the Fringe Club, will move out of Rymill Park next year, into a venue run by a former director of the Royal Croquet Club, InDaily can reveal.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 Comments

Comments Print article

Next year's Fringe Club will be held in the Crown and Anchor 'precinct', housing Roxie's and Chateau Apollo. Photo: Bension Siebert / InDaily

Roxie’s and Chateau Apollo, connected to the Crown and Anchor on Grenfell Street, will host the Fringe Club for the first time next year.

Tom Skipper, former director of the Royal Croquet Club Fringe event, runs the venues.

Responding to an inquiry from InDaily, Fringe CEO and Director Heather Croall confirmed the Fringe Club would move to the new venue, which was necessary because the O-Bahn tunnel had reduced the space in Rymill Park.

Moreover, she said the parklands venue had been vulnerable to harsh weather, which had made the Fringe Club a difficult place for artists to base themselves in the daytime.

“With the O-Bahn tunnel taking up areas of Rymill Park, we needed to look for a new home,” she said.

“Our selection criteria for the new venue included proximity to a busy Fringe precinct, good multiple use indoor area as well and a big outdoor garden area.

“The Fringe Club has become more of an office by day for Fringe artists, and the outdoor parklands setting of previous years meant they were vulnerable to harsh weather and this made doing business by day difficult for them. The Fringe Club by day is used by artists to meet and rehearse and attend panel discussions and share knowledge.”

Croall said the venue was chosen on the basis of selection criteria, but did not respond when asked whether there had been a tender process.

She argued the new home for Fringe Club “ticked all the boxes” for the festival.

“We looked at a number of venues and chose Chateau Apollo and Roxie’s as it ticked all the boxes for what we needed in a Fringe Club.”

The Fringe Club is an exclusive venue for artists performing during Fringe and the only venue managed by the not-for-profit Adelaide Fringe Festival during the open-access festival, which will run from February 15 to March 17 next year.

The Fringe Club has been held at several venues over the past decade, including Limbo nightclub, the Lion Arts Centre and the Adelaide Uni Bar.

InDaily contacted Skipper for comment.

Make a comment View comment guidelines

Jump to next article

Support local arts journalism

Your support will help us continue the important work of InReview in publishing free professional journalism that celebrates, interrogates and amplifies arts and culture in South Australia.

Donate Here

Comments

Show comments

Will my comment be published? Read the guidelines.

. You are free to republish the text and graphics contained in this article online and in print, on the condition that you follow our republishing guidelines.

You must attribute the author and note prominently that the article was originally published by InReview. You must also inlude a link to InReview. Please note that images are not generally included in this creative commons licence as in most cases we are not the copyright owner. However, if the image has an InReview photographer credit or is marked as “supplied”, you are free to republish it with the appropriate credits.

We recommend you set the canonical link of this content to https://inreview.com.au/inreview/2018/10/10/fringe-club-moves-out-of-parklands/ to insure that your SEO is not penalised.

<h1>Fringe Club moves out of parklands</h1>

The Adelaide Fringe Festival’s exclusive artist’s bar, the Fringe Club, will move out of Rymill Park next year, into a venue run by a former director of the Royal Croquet Club, InDaily can reveal.

																		<address><a href="https://inreview.com.au/contributors/bension-siebert/" class="author">Bension Siebert</a></address>
											
							Roxie’s and Chateau Apollo, connected to the Crown and Anchor on Grenfell Street, will host the Fringe Club for the first time next year.
Tom Skipper, former director of the Royal Croquet Club Fringe event, runs the venues.
Responding to an inquiry from InDaily, Fringe CEO and Director Heather Croall confirmed the Fringe Club would move to the new venue, which was necessary because the O-Bahn tunnel had reduced the space in Rymill Park.
Moreover, she said the parklands venue had been vulnerable to harsh weather, which had made the Fringe Club a difficult place for artists to base themselves in the daytime.
“With the O-Bahn tunnel taking up areas of Rymill Park, we needed to look for a new home,” she said.
“Our selection criteria for the new venue included proximity to a busy Fringe precinct, good multiple use indoor area as well and a big outdoor garden area.
“The Fringe Club has become more of an office by day for Fringe artists, and the outdoor parklands setting of previous years meant they were vulnerable to harsh weather and this made doing business by day difficult for them. The Fringe Club by day is used by artists to meet and rehearse and attend panel discussions and share knowledge.”
Croall said the venue was chosen on the basis of selection criteria, but did not respond when asked whether there had been a tender process.
She argued the new home for Fringe Club “ticked all the boxes” for the festival.
“We looked at a number of venues and chose Chateau Apollo and Roxie’s as it ticked all the boxes for what we needed in a Fringe Club.”
The Fringe Club is an exclusive venue for artists performing during Fringe and the only venue managed by the not-for-profit Adelaide Fringe Festival  during the open-access festival, which will run from February 15 to March 17 next year.
The Fringe Club has been held at several venues over the past decade, including Limbo nightclub, the Lion Arts Centre and the Adelaide Uni Bar.
InDaily contacted Skipper for comment.
							This article is republished from <a href="https://inreview.com.au" target=_blank rel="canonical">InReview</a> under a Creative Commons licence. Read the <a href="https://inreview.com.au/inreview/2018/10/10/fringe-club-moves-out-of-parklands/" target=_blank rel="canonical">original article</a>.
							<link href="https://inreview.com.au/inreview/2018/10/10/fringe-club-moves-out-of-parklands/" rel="canonical">

<a href="https://inreview.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener">InReview</a> is an open access, non-profit arts and culture journalism project. Readers can <a href="https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2E9q0000008PVN/inreview-sa-20222023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support our work with a donation</a>. Subscribe to InReview’s free weekly newsletter <a href="https://inreview.com.au/subscribe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
							<img src="https://inreview.com.au/pixel2.png?cc_article=fringe-club-moves-out-of-parklands" width="1" height="1">

Copied to Clipboard