Jerwood Curatorial Projects

Dance Double Bill (Dan Canham)
15 & 16 August 5pm
Forest Fringe

Dan Canham presents a double bill of compelling new dance by Laura Dannequin and Seke Chimutengwende.

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (non zero one)
18 August 3pm
Forest Fringe

A panel discussion bringing together the thoughts of leading interactive theatre makers, exploring what their work means for a new breed of interactive audience members/participants. This discussion will be presented alongside a reprisal of non zero one’s interactive game Hold Hands/Lock Horns, one of the stand-out successes of Forest Fringe last year.

Keep Rising: Radicalism and Revolution in 2011 (Tania El Khoury)
20 August 3pm
Forest Fringe

A day long programme of events thinking remembering, contemplating and celebrating the ongoing radical and revolutionary movements across the world and in the UK, and asking how we can all be more involved in these struggles.

Self Portraits (Gary McNair)
Various times
Forest Fringe

Gary McNair wants you to draw his portrait. All of you. He will pay.

Art Massage (Action Hero)
Various times
Snip and Sip Hairdressers and Massage Parlour

An opportunity to escape the busyness of the festival and enjoy a relaxing massage whilst listening to various artists talk about the work they make and why they make it.

Kaidan (Lucy Ellinson)
16 August 11pm
Forest Fringe

A totally new participatory project exploring the present state of the country, based on the Japanese game Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (‘gathering of One Hundred Supernatural Tales’).

Paranoia (Hide&Seek)
15-27 August Time TBC
Forest Fringe

A daily running of the classic dystopian role-playing game, for a group of regular players. An opportunity to explore some of the origins of much contemporary interactive theatre and pervasive gaming.

  • From the blog

    • The Paper Disco

      11 Aug 2011

      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 [...]

    • CALL FOR ARTISTS – LIVE ART SPEED DATE

      3 Aug 2011

      [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

      25 Jul 2011

      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 [...]