Statement Regarding the Cancellation of the Adelaide Food Fringe – Thursday 19 March 2020

Adelaide Food Fringe cancellation

In relation to statements made by the Prime Minister and Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brendan Murphy, about cancelling non-essential gatherings and events of 100 people and the directives that social distancing should be sought to be done where possible of between 1.5 metres, we have made a decision to cancel the Adelaide Food Fringe program listing.

We are committed to supporting the Government’s response to this crisis and updated public health advice and in light of this advice and the rapidly changing situation with COVID-19 it is with deep regret that the Adelaide Food Fringe is announcing the removal of our online program listing of independently produced events over the weekend of 3-5 April.

Some of the independent events produced by individual presenters that have registered their events in our program listing may proceed. However, we feel it is appropriate as a listing promoting events of non-essential gatherings, to remove the Adelaide Food Fringe published program listing of non-essential events. We have notified each event in our listing of our decision and each individual event will notify their ticket holders and audience of their status in relation to COVID-19 based on the latest information from the Prime Minister and Australia’s Chief Medical officer.

The Adelaide Food Fringe would like to thank all of our sponsors, cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants, venues, councils, communities, clubs, galleries, individuals, organisations, friends, families and everyone for their support for our inaugural festival concept celebrating a program created by the community and their take on our great state’s food and beverage culture.

While we are devastated we have had to make the decision to remove our first-ever program listing, our thoughts and best wishes go out to everyone dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.

We will return in 2021, in better times and hope to do our bit to help South Australia’s food, beverage and events industry recover from the unforeseen events of 2020.