So it’s over. After a frantic, breathless, deliriously exhilarating few weeks we are back home from our Microfestival adventure. It’s been an incredible experience. We’ve worked with 60 different artists or companies in 4 cities, with a total audience of over 500 people. We’ve had installations, one-on-one encounters, rock freakouts, secret games, haunting imaginary cinemas, [...]
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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 [...]
Volunteer at Forest Fringe – Reduced prices! Secret shows! The Fame! The Glamour! The improved sense of self worth!
(photo via) Forest Fringe is an award-winning new venue providing a home for experimentation and play in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival Season. Now in our third year, we’ve supported works-in-progress, one-on-one encounters, beguiling puppet shows, interactive adventures, installations and live art from our beautiful old church hall in the centre of Edinburgh. This [...]
