Below are the key festival/forum dates in Australia for 2024. Feel free to send us your dates if you are a major performing arts festival or forum!

Sydney Festival: 5 – 28 January
Western Australian Circus Festival & International Training Project (Margaret River): 8 – 20 January
Spinfest (Regional Vic): 11 – 15 January
Summer Nights (Perth): 19 January – 10 February
FRINGE WORLD (Perth): 19 January – 18 February
Midsumma Festival (Melbourne): 21 January – 11 February
Perth Festival: 9 February – 3 March
Mona Foma (Tasmania): 15 February – 3 March
Mardi Gras (Sydney): 16 February – 3 March
Adelaide Fringe: 16 February – 17 March
Adelaide Festival: 1 – 17 March
WOMADelaide (Adelaide): 8 – 11 March
Canberra Comedy Festival: 13 – 24 March
Hobart Festival of Comedy: 22 – 24 March
Melbourne International Comedy Festival: 27 March – 21 April
CIRCFest Meanjin (Brisbane): 12 – 21 April
Sydney Comedy Festival: 22 April – 19 May
Brisbane Comedy Festival: 26 April – 26 May
ISPA Conference (hosted by PACA, Perth): 30 April – 3 May
RISING (Melbourne): From 1 June
Adelaide Cabaret Festival: 7 – 22 June
Darwin Fringe Festival: 12 – 21 July
BLEACH* (Gold Coast): August
Darwin Festival: 8 – 25 August
APAX (Melbourne): 19 – 23 August
Now or Never (Melbourne): 22 August – 7 September
Brisbane Festival: 30 August – 21 September
Sydney Fringe: 1 – 30 September
Junction Arts Festival (Launceston): 20 – 24 September
National Circus Festival (Mullumbimby): 29 September – 6 October
Alter State (Melbourne): First two weeks of October
Melbourne Fringe: 1 – 20 October
OzAsia Festival (Adelaide): 24 October – 10 November
Feast Festival (Adelaide): November

Asia TOPA, Ten Days on the Island, YIRRAMBOI, The Unconformity Festival, DreamBIG Children’s Festival and Dark Mofo will return in 2025.
TNA’s APAF will likely return in 2025.