Category: Dead Important

The Update List

Steve

There is still confusion after the Fringe: the Carmina Trio event listed in our print programme for Sunday 14th June, has had to be postponed, by the band. But they will be now doing a larger and more exciting lineup to celebrate their new CD on Sunday October 11th at The Bell as part of Bath Folk Festival. Something similar has happened to the Dragonsfly gig [June 10], which has moved to September 23rd. I’m not suggesting a pattern here…

In all cases this website is obviously more up-to-date than the print and is always worth checking for late details.

Programme Out NOW!

Steve

Our printed programmes have arrived and will be all round the city shortly if not already: if you want to find one for sure, try The Bell. This website is being updated but we seenm to have a problem with some of the ‘search’ facility: the style links on the search page are working, however

Programme here there and everywhere!

Steve

Not only is the 2025 programme visible here on the website, but it’s also avilable in its full printed glory at many locations in Bath [try Harvest or The Bell if you want to be 100% certain of finding one] – and some outside the city too in the coming days. If you think of a place where they ought to be and aren’t, you could even let us know…
If you want us to send you one in the post, send us an A4 self-addressed envelope with a ‘large letter’ stamp on it.
There’s one to download on the downloads page [under ‘About The Fringe’, above] or through this link.
It’s great reading!!

Bath Fringe 2025 Registration Open Now

Steve

It’s time to put thoughts into action if you want to be in Bath Fringe 2025. Our registration process will shortly go online, to start off you need to EMail wendy[at]bathfringe.co.uk and she will make it work for you.

There is a brief guide to putting a show or act into the festival if you look under ‘get involved’ on the menu at the top of the page.
Anything more difficult, we’re happy to advise, EMail us !

Like the bigger Fringes in Edinburgh & Brighton, Bath Fringe does not currently run events itself; we work with promoters and venues, and the classic style of event comes from artists hiring venues – sometimes unusual ones – to put themselves on.

Bath Fringe 2025 runs from Friday May 23 to Sunday June 8

Our website is in the process of being updated
We have the 2025 artwork to announce imminently
…it’s all happening!

Bath Fringe 2025 starts here – OPEN MEETING

Steve

The time has come round again to launch next year’s festival!
Our first announcement is as always our Open Meeting.
This will be held at 6pm on Monday January 13th
at Burdall’s Yard, 7A Anglo Terrace, Bath BA1 5NH,
or “beginning of the London Road just after the Cleveland Place traffic lights”.

Who is the meeting for?
• Anyone who wants to come and find out about the Fringe
• It would be particularly useful if you haven’t done an event in Bath Fringe [or any Fringe at all] before.
• Or if you are thinking about an event that feels like it needs input or sharing from another group / artist / show.
• Any venue considering joining the Fringe for the first time, or in search of performers.

Who is the meeting not for?
• People who have done it with confidence before – but it would always be nice to see you!
• Visual Artists: although someone from Fringe Arts Bath [FaB] visual arts festival usually comes to the Open Meeting, their application process is different, please see www.fringeartsbath.co.uk.

What if I can’t come?
That’s fine, we can send you all the information you need and answer any questions by EMail.
What if I want to start RIGHT NOW?
Go and look at the stuff there is on this site, start with “Putting a show into Bath Fringe” under ‘Get Involved’ above

We will be reminding you about this again in January, and publishing the key dates: all you need to know right now is that we intend to have the application process running from around the beginning of February, and the main deadline will be in early March. The venues list will be updated for the meeting; the 2024 one can still be downloaded from <About The Fringe / Links and downloads> above.

Print Programme updates

Steve

The print programmes have appeared, and along with them a fresh crop of corrections: sometimes things change after we go to press, sometimes things should have been changed before we went to press. Generally the most up-to-date and correct info is here on the website.

Here are a couple of issues about which reality is non-congruent with what it says in the print programme:
Ma Bessie, Chapel Arts, Saturday 27th, tickets are £15 in advance & £17 on the door.
Luke De-Scisio, Chapel Arts, Thursday 8th, tickets are £12 in advance & £14 on the door, not the other way round.

CANCELLED SHOW: Anu Vaidyanathan

Steve

We are sorry to report that Anu Vaidyanathan‘s show Blimp at The Rondo [June 7th] has been cancelled. This is down to a variety of factors, one of which being that Anu had a very attractive offer for some film work that was rendering her trip here uneconomic. Oh the life of the freelance artist. We wish her the best.
Whilst on the topic, the Brujas Flamenco show at The Bell on June 12 has also been pulled, unavailability of backing musicians being the problem; it will be rescheduled – but it was only ever an ‘after the fringe’ date anyway…

In general we will be keeping a running account of cancellations and major changes here on the website news section, and indicating in the listings when a show is cancelled. I’d say “watch this space” but I’m hoping we won’t have too much to report.

More FaB things

Steve

We’ve added some more of the FaB Fringe Arts Bath events and performances to our calendar too!

On Wednesday 31 May, regular Fab Fringe Visitors Ron Hutt & Anna Novakov present Experiments in Olfactory and Musical Composition from 4pm in 44AD. We’ve seen R&A in action before, and can assure you that tho’ it might be strange, it’s never uninteresting or unmoving. They’re pretty darn unique and we’re lucky they keep on coming here.
On the same day [you can see both, no problem] local Folk-Horror film anthology REWILDING has a showing at 7pm in Newark Works. The Guardian bless ’em thinks it’s ‘outsider cinema’ so let’s take that as a compliment, ey? The event also includes Finglebone playing atmospherics, drones and field recordings along with relevant visuals.
Karen Wallis is another regular FaB contributor and local arts figure. She’s been lucky enough to be Artist in Residence at the excavations of the amazing Ness of Brodgar on Orkney, and on 3rd June at Newark Works she will be showing work and a film, with particular reference to the Archaeologists’ own everyday process.
On June 5th at 8pm at Newark Works, two text based performances about Gender and The Body. Both pieces seen as work-in-progress at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory as part of SPARK,  a curated series of pieces by outstanding early career artists.
GRIPE brings international video to Newark Works every day 11am-6pm. ‘Bath’s Tiny LoFi Indie Film Show’ is what it says, and as a description that’s a good start… For programming look here.