Author: 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 3^rd 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’re very pleased to announce that we’ve probably got the première of new Bath film ‘Bladud’ – well we have as long as they’ve finished the edit. Failing that it will be an exclusive pre-release version! We’re hoping Jamie Hughes or one of his crew will say a few words – and the same for the other directors whose work we are showing tonight. We loved the pre-shooting fundraiser, and we’re excited to see where it’ll end up.
We got the inspiration for a made-in-Bath film night last year when Ric Rawlins showed ‘Rewilding’, and we’re pleased to show our Walcot roots with his short documentary ‘The Yellow Shop’.
Ric introduced us to Cara Bamford and her affecting Bath written & crewed short ‘Talia’, with Kirris Riviere, whom we’ve always known was an actor as well as a blues singer, and here he proves it.
Plus, a late addition: Vicky Vatcher‘s ‘Maybe‘ is a light comedy about a freshers’ week make and break up, filmed at the YMCA and Devonshire tunnel.
And finally, for those who haven’t had enough, we will end the evening with a showing of the legendary Nasher‘s best-known film, ‘Gordon, The Movie’, [55min approx.]
With thanks to FaB and Arran for doing all the complicated stuff.
Full listing here.

Un-positive message from Black Dog Productions:
“Due to unfortunate circumstances beyond our control we are having to postpone ‘Lets Unpack that’” [Rondo, 7^th June]
It is expected you’ll be able to see the show rescheduled to 1^st November 2024

Note also below the previously announced cancellation of ‘Souvenir’ – and the entirely new arrival of “A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain“

PJ Vickers’ ‘Souvenir’ on Tuesday 28 May is CANCELLED
Oh the travails of Fringe Theatre: a crucial acting talent has accepted some paid rather than voluntary work – the obvious choice given the state of grassroots arts – and is not longer available. We wish Peter & company the best for the performing season and hope to see them again another year.

We are proud and just a little excited to say that the 2024 Bath Fringe print programme is hitting the streets – at least the streets of Bath – as you read this. Swathed in Tanya Miles’ explosive artwork, it is accompanied by a 6-page overview of the FaB Fringe Arts Bath visual arts festival. Everything there is here on the website too, of course, but we’re of the old-fashioned opinion that print is easier to browse and flick around in.

All changes & updates that we are informed about will be corrected on the online listings and flagged up here in the Latest News slot; this includes if a show sells out, but you don’t want to miss out, do you? Better get browsing and buying your tickets, then!

Our event registration process is now in operation, and it starts by you EMailing Wendy in the Fringe Office, wendy[at]bathfringe.co.uk; do that as soon as you can and we’ll all be on our way to the festival.
If you’re not quite at that point, getting you over that line, turning an idea into actuality, is what we in the office are here for, mail us and we’ll see how we can help.
Registration process starts February 5th and finishes March 4th [corrections deadline March 15th]

Website being updated and will soon feature 2024 artwork.

We’ve arranged our annual OPEN MEETING for January, Wednesday the 17th, UPSTAIRS at THE GRAPES, Westgate Street, Bath BA1 1EQ, at 6pm.
The Open Meeting is for talking about the Fringe in general, for advice, to talk to other artists and maybe some venues [representatives from some venues have promised to come]. Many people find this the best format for talking possibilities and finding out information, that’s why we do it, but it’s not essential to come: if you already know what to do, just check details on our website and we’ll get you wired in to the system…
Some venues are already booking up: The Mission Theatre doesn’t have many slots left, so be quick, and Chapel Arts is generally already booked out by now too.
There is more information elsewhere on this website, which is all still being updated, some pages still show the 2023 dates, sorry for any confusion.
Provisional start date for the submission process is February 5th and Deadline March 4th, see this website for definitive details after the Open Meeting.