If you placed all the flyers in Edinburgh during August end to end, they’d stretch from here to the moon and back. That’s not a fact but it could be true. It’s also not true that there are more flyers in Edinburgh during August than there are millimetres of rain. There are, however, a hell [...]
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CALL FOR ARTISTS – LIVE ART SPEED DATE
[A message from the good people at STK International] To celebrate the passing of the Forest Café as home of the Forest Fringe, Stoke Newington International Airport return to the Forest Fringe, for one night only on Friday 26th August at 11pm, with Live Art Speed Date. We are looking for artists and performers to [...]
Call for participation – Art Massage
This year at Forest Fringe Gemma and James from Action Hero are working with holistic massage therapist Blue Hesse at The Forest Café’s Sip n Snip Salon to bring Art Massages to the people of Edinburgh, as part of our Jerwood Curatorial Bursaries project. There’s some information below from Gemma and James about how the [...]
Volunteer at Forest Fringe
Every year Forest Fringe is made possible by an incredible team of volunteers who work alongside Debbie, myself and the artists to make the festival happen. It’s always brilliant having so many interested and committed people round the building and the fact that so many have come back year on year is a testament to [...]
“There’s a whole world out there, Jim”
So yesterday the Fringe Programme was launched in the usual fashion, the ghost of the Queen Mother smashing a bottle of gin against the side of a three metre high stack of brochures whilst screaming “You really must see Russel Kane I think he’s marvellous” before disappearing off into the misty Edinburgh night. This is [...]
Artists for 2011
So the time has come to give you a better sense of what we’ll be making happen in Edinburgh during this summer’s festival. The first thing to say is that not everything that will be happening has been decided yet. Indeed, if you read on you’ll discover that this is announcement is the beginning of [...]
Some thoughts on the Arts Council’s national portfolio announcements
Today arts organisations across England discovered if they would form part of the Arts Council’s new National Portfolio of regularly funded organisations from 2012-2015. We have all known for a while that there would be less money to go around, a consequence of the thinly veiled ideological assault on the arts and those that benefit [...]
Contribute to the State of the Arts Flash Conference
On Thursday this week is the State of the Arts Conference. An opportunity for people from across the arts to come together to share ideas, strategies and possible futures. We wanted to create an event that gave everyone a voice as part of that conference, regardless of where you are or what you do. An [...]
A Politics of Festival: some ideas following D&D6, looking forward to the summer
I Devoted & Disgruntled is an annual event for people who are in angry love with theatre. As I write this, dozens of theatre’s pissed off lovers are gathered together in Bethnal Green, employing Open Space Technology to discuss the past, present and future of theatre, now in the context of the UK government’s huge [...]
30 Days to Space by James Baker
So as many of you know, over the summer at Forest Fringe this year James Baker of Bootworks Theatre did an incredible 30 day durational project in which he attempted to climb a 6ft ladder enough times to reach space, marking a star on wall or ceiling of the Forest cafe for each climb of [...]
