Image: Opening Parade Nati Frinj 2022. Photograph by Suzanne Phoenix.

Inspiring, Collaborative, Visible, Accessible

We’re planning a Frinj that will ensure many layers of local community engagement and offer opportunities to experiment and play.  We’re also developing some new initiatives that will encourage greater visibility, accessibility and collaboration. We hope this will make the Frinj, that we know and love, even more responsive to our community’s interests, in line with the ACT Natimuk Strategic Plan.

If you’d like to be part of the festival team, find out how at Nati Frinj Biennale » Get Involved

Image: The Garage Girls at Nati Frinj 2022. Photograph by Suzanne Phoenix.

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Image: Tower Moments 2022. Photograph by Michelle MacFarlane

Image: Beetroot and the Nang Nangs at Nati Frinj 2022. Photograph by Suzanne Phoenix.

Frinj 2025 Curatorial sub-committee

For Frinj 2025, the festival program will be developed by the festival Director with a small group of volunteers who will act as a sounding board and help formulate ideas for the open and curated program. The Curatorial Sub-committee makes recommendations and guides the festival footprint.

The 2025 Committee is led by Festival Director Alison Eggleton and supported by six members ACT Natimuk’s General Manager Tracey Skinner and Natimuk based artists/community members Dave Jones, Mary French, Jacquie Tinkler, Jillian Pearce and Tanja Golding.

Frinj 2025 Volunteer with Frinj

We’re on the lookout for volunteers for the next Nati Frinj Biennale.

If you have skills you’d like to share or a space to host an artist we’d love to know about it.

You’re busting to get involved right! If you’d like to know what roles are coming up go to Nati Frinj Biennale » Get Involved

Some of our objectives in 2025

Respectfully working with First Nations people of the Wotjobaluk Nation:

ACT Natimuk and Nati Frinj acknowledges and respects the integral knowledge, strength and resilience of Australia’s First Peoples – the world’s oldest living and evolving continuous culture. We acknowledge the special relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have with their traditional lands and waters, as well as their unique history, diverse culture, customs and circumstances. When working on Wotjobaluk Country, ACT Natimuk acknowledges that it is vital to be inclusive of Indigenous perspectives at the very beginning of a project through to the end. This inclusivity is embedded in all our activities and reflects the organisations understanding of its role in supporting positive actions towards Reconciliation.

And safe for the youngest of us:

ACT Natimuk and the Nati Frinj is committed to promoting and protecting the interests and safety of children in all of our project activities. View our Child Safe Policy HERE 

Let’s try and keep things clean:

The Nati Frinj has the stated target of reducing waste produced at the event and becoming a “no single use plastic” event. This includes the following objectives:

  • No single use plastic bags or plastic packaging to be given out or sold at the event. We encourage everyone to refrain from the distribution of single use plastic bags, cutlery, straws and plastic bottles and avoid all unnecessary plastic packaging.
  • We seek a commitment from all participants at the festival to reducing waste, recycling and the use of reusable products (e.g. reusable bags/cups/cutlery/etc)
  • The Frinj commits to celebrate and promote the reduction of waste and recycling.

Support

Nati Frinj Biennale and ACT Natimuk are supported by the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria.