About

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 Milton Keynes Fringe Festival is the city’s biennial arts event showcasing both emerging and established artists. This multi-platform event presents innovative and exciting exhibitions, performance, experimental sound, music, installations. Returning in 2025, the Fringe programme will be presented alongside IF: Milton Keynes International Festival.  

Milton Keynes Fringe Festival 2025 will be co-directed by Ciara Callaghan and Madeleine Wilkie; two artists with individual practices and a combined practice. In reference to the Fringe being under a co-directorship, the theme for 2025 Fringe is an exploration of collaboration; what emerges when creative practices come together to create something new, the challenges, joys and intricacies of the process.

We commit to being as transparent and fair as possible. We aim to be part of a wider movement drawing attention to the common issues in the arts around diversity, fair pay and inclusion. We aim to work in an open and fluid manner; inviting conversation and feedback from the arts community and the wider community of Milton Keynes.