Belly Dance Flames at Fringe Sunday 2019. Photo by David Upcott
Performers and creatives can present a physical or online show at the festival which runs from July 7 to 25.
Entries so far include outside attractions such as Stone and Water’s children’s activities in the Pavilion Fardens, Buxton Pride Picnic and acoustic music in the Serpentine Community Garden.
The Green Man Gallery will host writers from Buxton Spoken Words, northern comedy with Whine, Women and Throng, comic poetry from Andy Gilbert, piano and songs from award-winning Egriega and Omrod and an evening of jazz vocals from Annette Gregory.
Following last year’s trail-blazing mainly online Fringe, it also looks as if web-based entertainment is here to stay with Chesterfield’s Ashgate Heritage Arts offering their Crooked Spire Murder Mystery Musical and Writers in the Peak presenting monologues, poetry and music.
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Last year was one of cancellations, postponements and digital reinventions, but this summer many arts festivals are hoping to go ahead. Most are planning an adaptable, hybrid format, with socially-distanced live shows alongside online content. Tickets are often sold with Covid-proof guarantees of refund or rollover, but check before you buy.
Brighton festival and fringe
Artwork, part of Brightonâs pier-to-pier sound installation
Interactive art in the Pavilion Gardens, dancing in the streets and a pier-to-pier sound installation will span 14 miles of pebbly beachfront from Brighton to Worthing. Brightonâs month-long live arts festival is followed by its fringe programme. The festival offers distanced lunchtime concerts at Brighton Dome, an otherworldly night-walk around Shoreham port and a lantern-lit trail with choral music and light sculptures through Stanmer woods at dusk. This yearâs guest director, the poet Lemn Sissa