Stepping over the threshold
Image viaI’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...
View ArticleDrowning in a sea of very tiny light bulbs
Ok. So picture this. It’s five in the morning. You’ve been up for about 42 of the last 48 hours. In that time you’ve seen three spectacularly beautiful shows, one that passed you by in the moment but...
View ArticleLate Night Notes
I don't have a desk in my room, only a too-low table in front of a sofa with a laptop on it. Around it is sprayed the following in a semi circle moving anti-clockwise:A jacket given to me by a friendA...
View ArticlePeter 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...
View ArticleThe Memory Book
On Friday night we ran a little event at Central School of Speech Drama. The main purpose of it was to try and experiment with a new kind of space for artists to play in. A bustling little hub in which...
View ArticleBack once again...
(img. by Brandon Christopher Warren)Well hello there sports fans, we’re back again. So I know we’ve hardly been gone long, but DOES IT EVER FEEL LIKE IT. It’s been a busy, dizzying, breathtaking few...
View ArticleForest 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleSome reviews of Forest Fringe at BAC
Image by Ludovic Des CognetsSo 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...
View ArticleLive Art Development Agency: DIY 7
We’re totally delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency on DIY7, the latest incarnation of their innovative artist-to-artist development programme:“DIY is an opportunity for artists...
View ArticleBrizzle and Glazzgo
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...
View ArticleFor your eyes and for your ears
A massive thank you to Hannah Nicklin for making this lovely video.
View ArticleThe Edinburgh Fringe Programme Drinking Game 2010
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View ArticleIntroducing Forest Fringe 2010: A Year of Reflection
Image from the Forest Fringe Microfestival, by James BasterSo yes, we’re probably repeating ourselves, but it’s really been a breathless few years. The way that people have believed in and helped...
View ArticleForest 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...
View ArticleForest Fringe 2010 Part 2: A Festival of Ideas
(Search Party Growing Old With You. Image by Finlay Robertson)From 5pm every afternoon Forest Fringe will once again have the kind of brilliantly diverse line-up of works-in-progress and unusual...
View ArticleForest Fringe 2010 Part 3: A Festival of Adventures
(James Baker, 30 Days to Space)We like the unlikely places in which live performance can make a home for itself. The strange encounters you might discover in tiny rooms or on park benches, in grand...
View ArticleForest Fringe 2010 Part 4: A Festival of Experiences
(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...
View ArticleMaking Days and Manifestos
(Melanie Wilson at the Forest Fringe Microfestival at BAC, image by Ludovic Des Cognets)This is a call for all the artists and actors and makers and doers who are thinking of heading to Edinburgh this...
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