The Fringe signs off with a flourish this weekend, before packing up its box of tricks for another year.
The internationally renowned ''Lines of Flight'' takes off twice today, with performances at the Port Chalmers Masonic Lodge and Chicks Hotel.
The longest-running experimental music festival in New Zealand was established by the Metonymic Trust in 2000 to provide a sonic showcase in Dunedin. ''It started as part of the Fringe. We do it with the Fringe for the funding, most of which we use on airfares to bring the artists here,'' co-organiser Peter Porteous told me yesterday.
The masonic lodge concert at 1pm features Arts Foundation awardee Alastair Galbraith on glass harmonium, Eye (Porteous and Peter Stapleton), Christchurch band Memory Burn and Magnetic Field Data (Charlotte Parallel and Ali Bramwell).
The Chicks Hotel gig at 8pm lines up Black Yoghurt, Wellington act Foxtrot, Gate (Michael Morley), Murderbike and the Futurians.
Enjoyed seeing the Yellow Men (Clarke Hegan and Jed McCammon) last night reprise Christchurch artist Audrey Baldwin's hit performance Canker, from last year's Fringe, at the Blue Oyster Gallery.
Baldwin was in the crowd last night to see the pair lick their way through a sheet of toffee in homage to her feat last year of escaping from a toffee box using only her tongue.
''I'm stoked to be back for this. It's really flattering that they're redoing it,'' she told me.
Check out Poetry While You Wait on your way to the Otago Farmers Market at the Dunedin Railway Station from 8am today, while it's the final Fringe Picks cameo in the Octagon at noon.
There is still plenty of drama left in the Fringe. In Absentia at the Globe Theatre at 7pm is a puppetry look at Alzheimer's disease, which is followed at 9pm by the entertaining and imaginative low-budget exploration of outer space with paper aeroplanes, A Play About Space.
Wellington street circus troupe In and Out of Context will be in the Octagon at 8.30pm, before the final Festival Club at 9pm at Queens, where Manthyng and Sexy Animals will be making mayhem on the dance floor.
Pretty Gay Productions does an adults-only take on gay cruising culture in Queer Deportment at 10pm at the Otago Museum Reserve, before a final family-friendly fling at St Clair Esplanade at 11am tomorrow. Artist James Bellaney concludes his Reduction of the Deity from 2pm to 6pm at the Community Gallery.
''It's a narration of Maori cosmology,'' Bellaney said yesterday.
''I'm breaking down the semantics into an entity. It travels from Te Kore, or 'The Void', to the modern day.''
Textile artist Desi Liversage and ceramicist Blue Black's stunning multimedia art exhibition, ''Hurry Up and Wait'', is also on from noon till 6pm at the Dowling St Project Space.
The 2013 Fringe wraps up with the Festival Awards Night at 7pm tomorrow at Queens.
