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Before Christmas
The air is cooler, tinsel is poorly displayed in a variety of locations and Coca Cola have released another expensively-crafted attempt to appropriate the spirit of Santa Claus for their entirely unseasonal range of drinks. The horror and fireworks of Autumn are behind us and Christmas is on its way. Now I bloody love Christmas [...]
#artsmeetingspace
The rather brilliant and inspiring Lucy Ellinson, who you many of you may know and many of you may know of from her One Minute Manifestos last year at Forest Fringe or the numerous other things that she has done, is doing some brilliant working encouraging the creation of #artsmeetingspace, that is a virtual and [...]
A very long letter about the future from Andy and Debbie
Hello All, We’ve been doing a bit of thinking and a bit of writing and want to tell you something about the future, and this being Forest Fringe it feels only appropriate that we begin this, potentially quite long letter with some kind of tree-based metaphor. Imagine you have a garden, and in the middle [...]
Robot Disco Needs You
So as I hope most of you might know, this Saturday we are hosting (amongst other things) a quite spectacular Robot Disco at Shunt‘s beautiful Bermondsey warehouse space. This will involve all the necessary Robo-elements, including a Robot Making station, a Robot Dancefloor and some Robo-DJing provided by James from Action Hero (Robot in Chief). [...]
One Minute Manifesto – Deborah Pearson
Another one minute manifesto, this time from our very own co-director Debbie Pearson, she of the awards and much acclaim for her solo show in Edinburgh this year, Like You Were Before. Well done to her for that, and also for this: I believe that the world is fundamentally corrupt. And when I say the [...]
One Minute Manifesto – Pat Ashe
A one minute manifesto now from a man of innumerable talents and possibly (nay, definitely) Forest Fringe’s most loyal and consistent volunteer, the quite remarkable Pat Ashe (not to be confused with former Wimbledon champion and famous bandana-wearer Pat Cash). I didn’t know what to say so here is a list of things I would [...]
A Message from Lucy
A message from Lucy Ellinson, who curated the lovely collection of One Minute Manifestos that you have been reading on here in the last week or so. Hi everyone, Just wanted to give you a heads up on this: A series of 3 one day symposia organised by ‘AHM’ (Sam Ainsley, David Harding and Sandy [...]
One Minute Manifesto – John Frankland
Another one minute manifesto for you. This one from John Frankland, dad of Tom Frankland, who’s manifesto you can find here. Tom and John were down at Forest Fringe this year working on some material for a new show about them, and a third, absent member of the family – Len Frankland, John’s late father [...]
One Minute Manifesto – Chris Thorpe
Another of our One Minute Manifestos for you, this time from the amazing Chris Thorpe, who is, we figured out, one of only four companies or artists who have performed at Forest Fringe for the last three years running*. This is transcribed as Chris wrote it, in block capitals on a scrap piece of paper. [...]
