(STK International, image by Briony Campbell) The reason Forest Fringe is able to exist at all in Edinburgh is thanks to the people at the Forest Café. It was they who first invited Debbie to use their beautiful upstairs space to create a performance programme for Edinburgh and their involvement with Forest Fringe continues to [...]
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Forest Fringe 2010 Part 1: A Festival of Thoughts
(H Plewis’ Cabinet of Ideas. Image by Finlay Robertson) For some time at Forest Fringe we’ve been dreaming of a different kind of space for Edinburgh. We imagined a room that was always open, that you could drop in and out of as you pleased. A place where something would always be happening. A place [...]
Some reviews of Forest Fringe at BAC
Image by Ludovic Des Cognets So like a more benign Frankenstein’s Monsters with an affection for Canadian Indie music, the Forest Fringe Microfestivals have finally stumbled blinking out of the laboratory and disappeared over the nearest hill, screaming for someone to love them. Things were wonderful at BAC – manic, exhausting, thick with atmosphere and [...]
To infinity and beyond
So the Microfestivals are now properly go. This is both frightening and deliriously exciting. Our first stop at BAC on the 2 & 3 April is now all but programmed. We have (deep breath): New work-in-progress shows by Mapping4D, Mischa Twitchin and We Belong to This Band! (a new project by Simon Bowes from the [...]
Forest Fringe Microfestivals
Is this country a big place? Put into context obviously not. It takes three days non stop to drive half way across Canada. And yet you could realistically sleep for almost two of those days and miss virtually nothing bar prairie. Travel from the West Midlands to South Wales in a couple of hours and [...]
Peter Brook Empty Space Award
Some delightful news for the beginning of maybe the year’s most depressing month (it’s cold, it’s not Christmas and the only thing to celebrate is the ineptitude of some 400 year old Catholics) – today Forest Fringe became the 20th winners of the Peter Brook Empty Space Award. It was genuinely a total surprise considering [...]
Stepping over the threshold
Image via I’m on the train, gently gliding past the back gardens of red brick houses somewhere on the outskirts of Leeds. The sun is smudge of white light in a pale evening sky. Everything outside feels very far away, an exact 1:1 scale model of the world bathed in perfect sinking sunlight. My mistake, [...]
Nic Green
If you’re around in London on Tuesday I’d recommend you get down to BAC to see Nic Green’s complete Trilogy. She performed some sections of it at Forest Fringe last summer and it was one of the most delightful moments of the festival. Recently Tim Etchell’s rightly said on his blog that politics ‘shouldn’t be [...]
A favour
The road to Edinburgh is long and winding, an almost unending series of stomach-churning ups and downs. This is quite literally true, if you’ve ever had the joy of travelling through the minefield of speed cameras, hillocks and sheep that make up the Scottish lowlands. If you can make it through on time, without three [...]
