Over 1,300 events are staged in hundreds of venues, which include work in a huge variety of performing and visual art forms. The Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The Fringe begins with free opening night celebrations, and other free events occur alo… Between mid-February and mid-March each year, it features more than 7,000 artists from around Australia and the world.