More than 120 volunteers and 90 different artists and companies took part with 250 performances across eight stages.
The fourth ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappFringe Festival, with its distinctive stretch-tent marquee and mobile box office on Palace Green, has drawn to a close with record visitor numbers and record ticket sales. With our support as a key partner, the ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappFringe brought a programme of arts and culture to ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappin the City's biggest arts festival. This included the festival’s first-ever dedicated dance hub in the Fonteyn Ballroom, Dunelm House.
Performers travelled from as far afield as the United States and Western Australia to be part of ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappFringe with several sell-out shows.
The diverse programme included everything from children climbing magic spirals into the air accompanied by a Cheshire cat, to AI projection augmented dance, new musicals, stand up, sketch reviews, magic shows, song and spoken word. The range of talent on show was amazing and acts received fantastic receptions from their audiences.
This included productions by six of our talented student performing arts groups:
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Many of the student groups who performed at this year's ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappFringe will be taking their productions to the internationally-renowned Edinburgh Fringe in August. Read on for a full line-up of ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappstudent productions and come along!
There will also be a number of ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappalumni-related productions, amongst which:
Images by Richard Eyers photography
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