Important People B
Katie Horneshaw
mysometimesshitlife.blogspot.com
Jayne Lovelock and Fiona Brook, CEO
and publicist of Melbourne Fringe, are
nuts. Completely bonkers. In a world full of
narcissists, we gave them a platform to bang
on about themselves for half an hour, and all
they wanted to do was talk about the art. So
deeply enamoured are these two with the
creative community that forms the backbone of
Fringe, to give you a blow by blow account of
their daily undertakings would be to present the
peripheral. So let’s dig into what really makes
them tick.
If you’re not already familiar with the yearly
cultural beacon that is Fringe, you need to
know that it’s Melbourne’s premier multi arts
festival, that it’s in its 32nd year, it’s open
access, meaning it doesn’t filter out the most
commercially viable art, instead leaving the
program purely to the artists, and that it has, for
many years, provided a fertile community for
emerging talents to ply their wares, minus the
judgement. No art is too ‘out there’ for Fringe,
and the audience come, in droves. They are
excited, they are engaged, and they’re up for
anything.
The people who make it all happen work
throughout the year engaging with and
supporting the creative community, before in
September ^H[