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Fringe 2011
Barring disasters (and we can usually manage to find our way through those too) Bath Fringe 2011 will run from Friday May 27 to Sunday June 12 2011

Great Festival!
Thanks to all the volunteers, artists and especially to you the audiences!
We'll keep this site up as an easy guide to what it is we do: people on our mailing list will also get occasional updates on matters of importance - or fun. If you want that, click under Contact Us over on the left of the page. We may even make announcements here. Not for a while, tho' - some rest would be a good thing, and some of us have other festivals to work on and go to...

Bath's Dark Past
Donwood & Jerrom, ir-responsible for some memorable events in Fringe & Fringe LitFest (Wiffle), and some extremely questionable history & fiction, have done it again.
The Misery of Crowds is an MP3 tour, downloadable from their website - but only when the Fringe is running. Click on 'The Misery of Crowds' under Bedlam Fair to the left, or www.miseryofcrowds.com
Yes it's up NOW!

Friends of Tinariwen and the Sahara - They need your help!
We were sent this message, and we know that those of you who saw Tinariwen back in 2002 won't forget them, and might want to know:

A severe drought is devastating pastures and animal stocks in the Adagh region of northeastern Mali, home to well known Touareg bands Tinariwen, Terakaft and Tamekrist.
Animals, on which the pastoral Touareg nomads depend for their livelihoods, are dying in their hundreds. Fights are breaking out around the few wells that are still providing water, leaving a number of wounded. Some are even saying that the drought is as bad as the one that laid waste to the region between 1973 and 1975, and brought about tragic and irreversible changes to Touareg nomad life.

There is an appeal and much more information: click through to http://www.tamasheq.net/northern-mali-drought-appeal.html

Volunteer Here...
If you would like to volunteer, or be be involved in some other capacity, be in touch on admin@bathfringe.co.uk.
There's always plenty to do: and we particularly need people experienced in stewarding at events, with First Aid qualifications, etc.

Welcome to Bath Fringe Festival 2010

Bath Fringe is a 17-Day festival of all the artforms we can find (and some that don't have names yet) in the Beautiful City of Bath, and with the collaboration of many of its Beautiful & Talented population.


Another vintage year for the Fringe, with some of our oldest favourites coming back, some of our newest regulars doing new shows, and, as every year, a little innovation. This year's festival has one of our best-ever Spiegeltent programmes and some of the strongest-ever contributions from Bath-based venues and artists, and all this despite the doom & gloom general financial situation nationally, in Bath and in B&NES. Or maybe because of it?

Everything on this website is as up-to-date as we can make it. If you want to be alerted when important things change, sign onto our EMailing list (see ‘contact us’, left) or sign up to our pages on Facebook or Myspace.

If you want to know more about the Fringe in general, peruse the menus to the left, or dip around under 'history'. Those years were great but this one's just as good.

Like what you see? Don't like? Like something more?? Want to comment on anything you saw this year? Come talk to us on Facebook or Myspace

If you want to know more about the Fringe's Visual Art programme click through to their site here.