It’s not quite as alarming as it sounds, but Scott Jerram / Maple Leaf Theatre‘s show of that name has been cancelled.
If you had advance tickets, see The Rondo website.
The only other cancellation on the diary at the moment is Anu Vaidyanathan‘s show Blimp at The Rondo [June 7th]
The event on Friday 2nd in the Bell Back Bar got messed up by an inadvertent double booking, but the end result is that you get MORE BANDS, so no problems we hope. Here’s the new running order:
7:00 – 7:30 – Hedge
7:40 – 8:10 – Underbliss
8:25 – 8:55 – The Perfect Days
9:10 – 9:40 – Mighty Magic Animal
9:50 – 10:20 – Laura’s Dream
10:30 – 11.00 – Stanchions
Today’s Show [May 31st] by The Rabbits at Chapel Arts is CANCELLED, sorry. Contact the venue for refunds.
The only other cancellation on the diary at the moment is Anu Vaidyanathan‘s show Blimp at The Rondo [June 7th]
There was a problem withg the Punk show at The Bell Back Bar on Friday [2nd June], but we think we have that solved at the moment…
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.
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.
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.
This site should now be displaying the 2023 Bath Fringe festival programme.
Click HERE for the full festival lineup [or ‘What’s On’ on the main menu].
We think it’s a significant step up from last year, more artists are being more ambitious, we were all a bit still under the cloud of the pandemic in Summer ’22…
Some events are still gaining their final configuration, and also there are likely to be some mistakes, at least for the first few days until we’ve noticed them all: spot something that doesn’t make sense or doesn’t work? EMail or message us!
To get your event included in Bath Fringe 2023, start by EMailing wendy@bathfringe.co.uk; she will provide you with a log-in to our submission process – you write your own listing [if necessary we edit for length or to avoid confusion].
The process will be online from
Applications close at midnight on Monday March 6
You can update your event until 6pm on Friday March 17 [or later in ‘emergencies’]
The Fringe runs from Friday May 26 to Sunday June 11, though if you have an event in the week before or after that we are generally glad to include that in our programmes.
There is a charge of £50 per event: this sum has not been increased since 1066, and gets you in both our print and online programmes. There are reductions for repeat performances, series, etc., and you can add display advertising in the programme brochure.
For general information about putting a show into Bath Fringe see our website, this page www.bathfringe.co.uk/about-the-fringe/putting-a-show-into-bath-fringe/
For a more detailed checklist of what you need to do, a more comprehensive guide for artists is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gsOVFjNf9n7uIK5Hzbw40GKsuI55vW0zphzvdbfHXbU/edit?usp=sharing
If you’re a new Fringe venue, there’s a similar guide for you here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15k9s3vTCRsG0kN2pGyrvTBvK-3CMaBMKrfMXaMhY-X4/edit?usp=sharing
Both of these will be updated as appropriate.
If your show doesn’t yet have a venue, there are still suitable spaces for hire, although some of the traditionally ‘best’ venues are already booked [in some cases months ago]. See our comprehensive list here www.bathfringe.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/BATH-FRINGE-VENUES-LIST-2023-in-progress.pdf
or via the Fringe Website ‘Links & Downloads’ page.
Our 2023 artwork will shortly be announced. It’s great.
If what you do fits better with Visual/Plastic/Conceptual/Live/Digital/Video Arts, you might like to check out the application process to our friends Fringe Arts Bath, whose festival runs concurrently. There is no need to be in both programmes. www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/
There is now also information online for use when planning an event for the festival.
There is a general guide for artists here.
And general info for Venues [quite similar] here.
Timeline here.
Other useful information & resources may be downloadable from this very site, see www.bathfringe.co.uk/about-the-fringe/links/
EMail us on admin<at>bathfringe.co.uk