FERS Terms
The Adelaide Fringe Event Registration System (FERS) uses it's own vocabularly. To help you speak the language, and be able to understand the system, this page will outline the most commonly used terms.
Accredited Media Members
Members of the media that are verified by the Fringe as being legitimate media representatives. This may include reviewers, journalists, radio and television producers or other media persons.
Active Session
This is a session that is visible to the general public via our FringeTIX website as either available for ticket sales (performances) or open for the public to attend (exhibitions and non-ticketed events).
Event
An event is the exhibition or performance that is registered with Adelaide Fringe, to which the registration fee applies.
File Upload
This is a section of FERS where all the image and online media kit files can be uploaded into.
Fringe Managed Venue
The Fringe may elect to manage a number of venues themselves. Presenters may apply to be programmed into a Fringe Managed Venue. Events that are selected will be required to pay venue hire fees for their sessions.
Online Media Kit
Presenters may upload a number of images, press releases and detailed biographies that accredited media members may download directly from the Media Members section of the FringeTIX website.
Presenter
The Presenter is the person or company that is registering the event. The presenter may be an individual, a company (not necessarily formally instituted), a group, an organisation or a business and is the entity that enters the legal relationship with the Adelaide Fringe.
Primary Contact
The main person for all correspondence from the Fringe relating to a presenters registered event(s).
Pricing
Pricing is ticket price information.
Price Category
The name of a price i.e. Adult or Concession
Production Company
The Production Company is the performing or exhibiting artist(s) or company (not necessarily formally instituted) or group of individual artists. The Production Company could also be an organisation or a business.
Production Company Staff
Production Company Staff are members of the Production Company. They could be artists, performers, staff members, helpers, etc.
Publicity Contact
Presenters may elect a publicity contact that the Fringe may correspond with in relation to publicity. Publicity contact details are also released to accredited Media Members via the secure media section of the FringeTIX website.
Registered Venue
A Registered Venue is a space in which there may be no registered event(s). Registered Venues may also house one or more registered event(s).
Season
A Season is the collection of events an event shows at a particular venue. If an event is performing at two or more different venues during the Fringe, the event will be considered to have two or more seasons.
Session
The specific date and time of an individual performance, event or showing.
Technical Contact
Presenters may elect a technical contact person that the Fringe may correspond with in regard to technical matters. This person may be a venue representative, stage manager, production manager, lighting designer or other person.
Venue
A Venue is the space in which an event's season is performed/exhibited.
Venue Management Company
This refers to the person or company that is responsible for the management of the venue. In many cases this will be the person or company that owns the venue, but may not always be.