Take part in Wandsworth Arts Fringe
Wandsworth Arts Fringe is an annual extravaganza of arts and culture, popping up in surprising spaces all over the borough. On this page, you can find out more about Wandsworth Arts Fringe festival plus key information and guidance on how to take part.
WAF is taking a moment to reflect…
During our London Borough of Culture 2025 programme, WAF continued to play a key role in showcasing the borough’s artistic talent, engaging communities, and delivering meaningful experiences across Wandsworth.
We are currently reviewing feedback and evaluation data from artists, audiences, and partners to ensure that future editions of the festival continue to meet the needs of our creative community. This period of reflection is vital, not only to celebrate what has been achieved, but to listen, learn, and evolve.
Our aim is to build on the momentum of LBOC, ensuring that WAF remains a flagship event that delivers lasting public benefit to our artists and communities.
We thank you for your patience whilst we take a momentary pause and we will be in touch soon to share our future vision.
What’s Fringe?
Wandsworth Arts Fringe is an open-access festival, which means that no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone is welcome!
Unlike other arts festivals, no-one’s in charge of deciding which shows get to take part. We don't have curators or programmers, and there are no themes or content criteria that artists have to fulfil when registering an event. Anyone with a story to tell and a venue to host them is invited to register.
Why WAF?
Wandsworth Arts Fringe is an opportunity to test new ideas, showcase your work, attract new audiences, and explore new spaces. Wandsworth Council is committed to supporting artists to build their practice, so we offer registration fees from as little at £15 for performers under 26, and from just £30 for everyone else. We also offer packages of support across marketing, PR, venue booking, ticketing, accessibility, sustainability, fundraising and evaluation. Each year we offer up to £2000 to projects that meet our strategic goals and engage meaningfully with our residents through our grants scheme.
There just seems to be an enormous creative will here to do things and make things happen, and just being part of that is wonderful. Anywhere that can have that kind of level of support to the arts and diversity and culture can’t be ignored.
Alice D’Lumiere, cabaret artist and aerialist. WAF Artist 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Similarly to Edinburgh, there’s been so much going on, whether it’s art in the park or seeing Eko the giant sea puppet walking about. There’s just so much life here, and that’s been really inspiring to see. Just the sheer variety of stuff is mind-boggling, really. I’ve learned a tonne about producing… how to budget your shows, how to set up fundraisers, all of that has been really eye-opening. This is the first time I’ve applied to do something in a fringe, so it’s been really helpful and all of the support and workshops, whether that’s evaluation or marketing and how to develop your show for the future, that’s all been super. – Kevin Martin Murphy, WAF Artist 2023.
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