Opening night Dunedin Fringe Festival core, C ARTS all the way from Osaka, Pacific Arts, a solo exhibition and comedy nights not to be missed!

By Dunedin Fringe Festival | Posted: Thursday Feb 19, 2026

Here's a snapshot of some of the upcoming events - check out the full programme at www.dunedinfringe.nz

1. Opening Night! From: Ōtepoti | Dunedin - Fancier, funnier and more exxxtra than ever before...

2. Brown Sugar from Ōtepoti | Dunedin - It’s about to be an interesting week at the flat. Come over?

3. PeoplePeople from tarinainanika (Osaka, Japan) | with C ARTS - Wildly quirky physical theatre from Japan – told by a professor, a punk, a pierrot, a patient, and a pupil.

4. Jon Cox: Human Errpr from: Ōtepoti | Dunedin - ‘New Work by Jon Cox: Human Errpr’, a celebration of human error and its role in creativity.

5. Oliver Pol: Featherbrained from Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington - Stuck in your head ruminating? Same! Let’s have fun and talk about geese instead.

6. Arias at Dusk from Ōtepoti | Dunedin - Nothing is quite what it seems. The music finds you before you find it.

7. The Goon Show from Ōtepoti | Dunedin -Two Spike Milligan scripts are parachuting onto the Allen Hall stage. Quick, escape to the ticket booth, it’s an invasion!

8. Hoani Hotene: Funny, Funny from Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland - The hilarious 2025 Billy T Award winner in his Ōtepoti debut.

Dunedin Fringe Festival 2026