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...
View ArticleNic 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...
View ArticleStepping 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...
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 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 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 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...
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 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...
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