Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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During August (and throughout the year), we work to partner up artists with communities and organisations around Edinburgh, including this visit The Black Blues Brothers made to the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People.

Find out more about our charity work and how to support us 👇

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Massive congratulations to alumni Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer), Will Smith (Slow Horses), Alan Cu***ng (The Traitors), John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) and Alex Edelman, all of whom were recognised at the 2024 🥳

Richard Gadd with his second of the night! 👏

We're already looking ahead to 2025, and keen to hear from artists, workers, street performers and arts industry on how we can make it even better.

If you have 10-15 minutes to spare, let us know your thoughts 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0cnQDz0

Is 2024 starting to fade from your memory? Head to https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ckXYj0 to bag a memento of this year's festival – with discounts of up to 50% 👕🛍️

Congratulations to Róisin McMullan, winner of the Young Writers Award at 2024 🥳

Róisin will receive one-to-one mentoring from arts writers at The Scotsman and paid work as part of the paper’s review team at Fringe 2025.

Find out more 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ckxKb0

Our festival family over at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival launched their 2024 programme today – go take a look 👀

📣 Our 2024 festival programme is out now!

Experience the magic of storytelling from 18-31 October with our ‘Bridges Between’ programme, featuring extraordinary storytellers from Scotland and across the world.

Check it out here 👇

https://www.sisf.org.uk/

📣 Scotland-based artists 📣

We’re piloting some changes for Made in Scotland 2025, including a simpler application process, three award amounts and an amended timeline.

Find out more and apply 👇

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Creative Scotland Federation of Scottish Theatre Scottish Music Centre

We keep track of all the awards handed out to shows on an annual basis – visit our website to see which comedy shows were recognised at this year's festival 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0c0gBL0

What does the Fringe mean to you?

We asked Ella McCready from '007 Voices of Bond' at theSpace, and this is what she had to say ♥️

We keep track of all the awards handed out to shows on an annual basis – visit our website to see which shows were recognised for their accessibility, diversity and inclusivity at this year's festival 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0c05Np0

We loved speaking with artists about their experiences at this year's festival! This quote is from Arsalan Akhavan, who was performing 'The Good Iranian' at Just the Tonic 💙

What does the Fringe mean to you?

We keep track of all the awards handed out to shows on an annual basis – visit our website to see which shows were recognised across a range of genres at this year's festival 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0c05Rz0

This year, we asked artists and audiences what the Fringe means to them.

We love this answer from Steffan Alun who was performing in 'Free Stand-up, but at What Cost?' with PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth ♥️

We keep track of all the awards handed out to shows on an annual basis – visit our website to see which theatre shows were recognised at this year's festival 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0c0Fv_0

What does the Fringe mean to you?

We've been asking artists and audiences this question throughout the month and this is one of our favourite responses, from Michael Johnson who was performing in Wish You Were Here at Greenside 💚

We're already looking ahead to 2025, and keen to hear from artists, workers, street performers and arts industry on how we can make it even better.

If you have 10 minutes to spare, please let us know your thoughts 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0b_7V10

🎭 And that's a wrap for our time at Edinburgh Festival Fringe Assembly Festival! Thank you to everyone who came along to see the show - we had a great time performing at the world's largest arts festival and can't wait to return again!

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 is complete! I performed in 71 shows and hosted 27 of those, beating my own personal record of shows per month.

A huge thank you to Majestic Fringe International for giving me this opportunity, and for supporting me over the last decade to be a better host and performer, I am forever grateful. 🙏

A thank you to my colleagues who continually inspire me to be the best I can, by sharing tips of the trade and lighting the fire under me of self improvement.

And of course the biggest thank you to everyone who was in the audience. I am thankful that I get to do this as my job, and I couldn’t do it without you.

ID: Backstage at The Caves about to go onstage wearing a purple and gold glittery headdress and satin purple dress.

Wow!!! Edinburgh Festival Fringe thank you so much for a special wonderful gig!! Being on stage with and just made the whole show a giant joyful hour on stage and off!! A beautiful room to play thanks to Joe on sound and for putting it in Thank you 🤩

A big thank you to everyone who came out to support our show "BANNED the Musical" at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We had such a fabulous time. There are so many talented performers at the festival and the Greenside Venue staff was great. Thank you again, until next time Edinburgh. 🎭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😀

We’ve been keeping a lil (or big) secret from our socials… What do ya think of our Jaffa?! 😅👨‍⚖️ We have been BLOWN AWAY by the response to A Jaffa Cake Musical at Pleasance Theatre and certainly didn’t expect to sell out EVERY SHOW since previews 🤯 We’ll do a proper round up of our time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe soon but for now all we can say is… THANK YOU! 🙌

📣 Attention artists 📣

Fancy bringing a show to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe?

Show registration is now open - find out more 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H06TbLh0

Show registration for 2024 opens this Monday – and, if you're interested in bringing a show, we're hosting an online info session at 15:00 GMT on Tuesday 09 January to answer any questions you might have.

Register to come along 👇

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H06RX0n0