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Information for participants in the Chelsea Fringe 2016

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Thank you for your interest in the Chelsea Fringe, the alternative garden festival. This document contains some of the information you may need to take part in 2016.

Outline:

The Chelsea Fringe is held each year over three weeks in May and early June at the time of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Fringe complements this famous show and operates with the support and endorsement of the Royal Horticultural Society but the two organisations are entirely independent. 2016 will be the fifth edition of the festival.

The aim of the Fringe, as an alternative garden festival, is to celebrate and encourage a broad range of people to participate in the excitement around plants, flowers, gardens and gardening at this time of year. We have an open-access platform and our team of friendly volunteers will help facilitate and advise individuals and groups in the creation of exciting and innovative horticultural interventions, community initiatives, art happenings, walks, talks, exhibitions and other events. Participants are exciting, original, eclectic, inclusive and push the boundaries of what is usually considered appropriate in garden/landscape design.

The Process:

Once you have an idea for a project, please get in touch with us via info@chelseafringe.com

We can let you know whether it sounds right for the Chelsea Fringe. We’ll also help you with information and support from our central committee and put you in touch with your local group of volunteers.

The Chelsea Fringe will list all events through its website and via its media partners. In return for registration, participants will receive: official inclusion in the Chelsea Fringe website listing and on any printed map or brochure that is produced (subject to deadlines); Chelsea Fringe branding materials for display on site; potential benefit from the overall publicity campaign surrounding the Fringe, including television and social media; support provided by the Chelsea Fringe organisational hub.

The Chelsea Fringe itself is an umbrella organisation. We cannot provide the funding for or organise and solely market the project on your behalf. But again, we will help in any way we can and share knowledge and networks through which you can promote and progress your events.

We expect projects to have a particular venue (or start/end point). Some may have generally free access, with times for special events (talks etc) ticketed during the festival period. This aspect should be remembered in your registration submission. The Chelsea Fringe HQ cannot be held responsible for the safety of visitors or those working on site at events/projects held under the banner of the Fringe. It is the responsibility of the organisers/participants to evaluate and arrange relevant security, health and safety, accessibility, insurance, policing and local-authority permissions and notifications.

Formal registration of events and participation in the Chelsea Fringe will go live in January 2016; it will be necessary to register in order to be a part of the Fringe. Early registrations may benefit from longer visibility and early PR activity. There are several tiers of registration (the level will be at the discretion of the Chelsea Fringe):

Standard registration: £150
Larger charities rate: £100
Colleges, hospitals, museums, schools and other public institutions: £100
Small community gardening groups, run by volunteers: £25
Individual self-funded artists and designers: £25
Web-based projects: £20

There is an early-bird rate of 10% off until the end of March 2016.
Each organisation need only register once; any additional projects can be registered at a charge of £1 for each additional project.

The only other payment due – if applicable – to the Chelsea Fringe is a levy of 10% on tickets sold for events at the venue during the duration of the Fringe. In addition, it will be mandatory for Fringe participants to display the branding/logo of the Chelsea Fringe and its headline sponsor, using the branding materials provided. It is also mandatory to use the Fringe logo on any promotional materials, web-pages etc.

That’s it! We hope you feel inspired to get a project off the ground, and we look forward to working with you on the Chelsea Fringe Festival 2016.

If you have any further queries, you can get in touch with us via the email below

www.chelseafringe.com
info@chelseafringe.com


Chelsea Fringe Key Facts

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  • The Chelsea Fringe is an alternative garden festival celebrating community growing initiatives, outdoor performance, botanical art, walks, talks and events during three weeks across late May and early June.
  • There were around 300 events in 2015, the fourth year of the Chelsea Fringe Festival
  • An estimated 200,000 people attended Fringe events over the three-week period
  • Projects ranged from community-garden events to avant-garde art installations, from walks, talk and performances, to workshops, dinners, demonstrations and on-street ‘happenings’. Nearly all the events were free
  • The Fringe, a community interest company (CIC), is un-sponsored, unfunded and volunteer-run.
  • The World Festival Network has called the Chelsea Fringe ‘the fastest-growing Fringe festival ever’
  • Around 1,000 individuals created the events, while the Chelsea Fringe itself was run by a team of approximately 50 volunteers
  • In 2015 there were 14 ‘satellite’ Chelsea Fringe Festivals in Bristol, Brighton, Kent, Henley-on-Thames, Cambridge, Ljubljana, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Melbourne and five cities in Italy – with more coming on board for 2016, including we hope Athens and Amiens
  • The Chelsea Fringe attracted national and international media coverage, including BBC and ITV television news, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio London, as well as articles/listings in all the major broadsheet newspapers. The Fringe has been particularly well supported by The Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday, the Evening Standard and The Guardian
  • The Chelsea Fringe is a true Fringe festival in that
    •  it operates on the Fringe of an established event or festival [in this case, Chelsea Flower Show], and
    •  it works on an ‘open-access principle’, in that if it’s interesting, legal and on the topic of plants, gardens or landscape, it’s in
  • Anyone can enter a project in the Chelsea Fringe; most projects pay £25 (volunteer/community rate)
  • There is an increasing national and international component to the Fringe. In its first year a number of international artists participated, and the intention has always been to spread the Fringe ideal more widely.
  • The Chelsea Fringe operates with the blessing of the Royal Horticultural Society, organisers of Chelsea Flower Show
  • The Fringe does not last for just three weeks. We continue to encourage the spread of ‘fringe gardening’ (as we like to call it) all year round
  • The Fringe was an original idea by founder-director Tim Richardson, a garden writer and historian
  • Preparations for Chelsea Fringe 2016 are well under way, with the Fringe’s project co-ordinators working to make ideas come to life

For more information, please see: www.chelseafringe.com or contact us on: info@chelseafringe.com

Chelsea Fringe: Call for Submissions

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The Chelsea Fringe has set the date for 2016, its fifth year, and is now open for submissions. The festival runs from May 21 to June 12: that’s 23 days, four weekends and one Bank Holiday Monday to fill with exciting gardening projects and events.

The 2015 Fringe was a huge success, with some 300 community gardening activities, garden/art installations and happenings, walks, talks, food events, open days, exhibitions and performances across London and beyond. There was excellent coverage in the national media – newspapers, magazines, radio and television. We also maintained our successful broadcast partnership with BBC Radio London (the Robert Elms show), which is to continue in 2016.

At this stage we are inviting individuals and organisations, first-timers and Fringe veterans, to register their interest and to discuss what they might like to do. Please get in touch with us via email (info@chelseafringe.com) if you would like to be involved and do forward this on to anyone else who you think might be interested.

The Chelsea Fringe is volunteer-run and unfunded, operating as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company [CIC].

It’s our Fifth Birthday!

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Mud at the Oasis Nature Garden – photographer Jess Thom

2016 Festival Dates Announced

The Chelsea Fringe is back for its fifth birthday in 2016 when we will reach our 1000th event! It will run from 21 May to 12 June, which is 23 days, four weekends and one Bank Holiday Monday to fill with exciting gardening projects and events.

We’re Open for Submissions Already

If you already know what you would like to do, Chelsea Fringe, the alternative gardening festival has set the date for 2016 and is now open for submissions.

Register your Interest

On the other hand, if you are not sure what you would like to do, we are inviting individuals and organisations, first-timers and Fringe veterans, to register their interest and start discussing what they might like to do for the Chelsea Fringe 2016. Please get in touch with us via email – info@chelseafringe.com  if you would like to be involved.

Registration will Open in January 2016

Before that date arrives we recommend that you read this first: Everything you wanted to know about putting on a Fringe event but were too afraid to ask…

Calling all Volunteers

If you’d like to join our friendly team of volunteer project co-ordinators, please have a look here, and then contact alex@chelseafringe.com now.

Become a Friend

No time to volunteer? Then why not become a Friend of Chelsea Fringe? You’ll enjoy advanced information on events, insider trails and more – plus the satisfaction of supporting a grass-roots festival that’s bringing plants and gardening to unexpected corners of towns and cities around the globe.

Want to Know More before Deciding?

Click here to read Frequently Asked Questions.

About Us

The 2015 Fringe was a huge success,  with some 350 community gardening activities, garden/art installations and happenings, walks, talks, food events, open days, exhibitions and performances across London and far beyond. There was excellent coverage in the national media – newspapers, magazines, radio and television here. We also renewed our broadcast partnership with BBC Radio London (the Robert Elms show) and that will continue in 2016.

The Chelsea Fringe is volunteer-run and unfunded, operating as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company [CIC].

Sing your heart out with The Diggers

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Dear Chelsea Fringe participant or supporter

Can you sing? Is this how you remember it? Well, why not try again?

Some of us have set up a new gardeners’ choir called The Diggers, open to anyone involved with community gardening or who supports it. The aim is to rehearse – initially on a monthly basis (Wednesdays) – to establish a repertoire of songs that we can sing together, usually at outdoor locations, in support of gardening initiatives (or occasionally by way of protest, too). And of course we intend to sing as part of Chelsea Fringe 2016.

We’ve had a few rehearsals which were great fun and now we need to get serious!  Please help us boost our numbers and if you’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, please join us at the next one on Wednesday 10th February from 5.30pm  to 6.30pm.  Also same time, same place on these Wednesdays, 9th March, 13th April and 4th May. Watch this space for future dates. Also posted on Project Dirt

It’s at the very large church opposite Borough tube station – here’s the address and map St George the Martyr Church, Borough High Street, London SE1 1JA

Please do come along to try it out, with no obligation to keep coming. It’s an ‘open-to-all’ initiative (provided you can sing in tune!) so don’t worry about how rusty you are. And please do spread the word as everyone is welcome.

Please respond to choir leader Wendy

Roll up, Roll up! Registration is now open

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ChelseaFringeLogo2016 signatureYou’re too late to be the first to register your project for the Chelsea Fringe 2016! But you could be in the First Eleven!

If you’ve already been in contact with us at info@chelseafringe.com then let us know your final details so that we can give you the password that allows you to begin registration (see Get Involved).

If you have an idea for a project but haven’t yet contacted the Chelsea Fringe please email us at info@chelseafringe.com  and we’ll discuss your idea with you.

For details of our registration rates, click on Get Involved.

NB There’s an Early Bird discount of 10% for all registrations made by 31 March.

So many wonderful projects – jump on board now to get the early bird discount!

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We’d love your project to be part of the Chelsea Fringe. You can be an individual, an organisation, a first-timer or a Fringe veteran – send us an email with your idea and we’ll go from there – info@chelseafringe.com.

The Chelsea Fringe is all about the gardeners and not the gardens-we want to hear from you!

Apply by 31st March & you’ll get a discount! Want more info? This is a must read: Everything you wanted to know about putting on a Fringe event but were too afraid to ask…

It’s the Fringe’s fifth birthday this year and we’ll reach our 1000th event! The Fringe runs from 21 May to 12 June – with less than 2 months to go, it’s already looking very exciting. We’ve got the festival covered by the BBC radio London Robert Elms show  and so far floral flotillas and dogs, cocktails, music, guided walks and desert island plants are starting to weave the fabric of the festival.  

Keep checking the what’s on part of the website as we put up new events up all the time. Hopefully your project will feature there too!

Lots of green fingered love from the Chelsea Fringe team.

What do you get when you mix a knitted landscape, a performing vegetable and an edible avenue together?

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…..The Chelsea Fringe Festival!

Learn how to knit a miniature tree, scoff down dinner as vegetables perform to you and then learn to forage for your own food.

The only problem is, you might have to call in ‘sick’ to work from 21 May to 12 June so you can do all of this twice! Or if you’d prefer to keep your job, there’s plenty of weekend and evening events at the festival to thrill, tantalise or relax a busy mind- find them all here.

So we hope to see you on a woodland walk, spotting a bat, admiring a floating garden or discovering how to make perfume. Just remember to book in early, loads of events are free but have limited places.

And there’s still time to sign up if you’d like to be part of this year’s Fringe. Find out more here.


Chop chop! Get those dates in your diary – it starts next week…

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We can’t believe how quickly it’s come round – there’s tonnes of events to choose from – from Topiary on the Thames to Edible Trees in Tower Hamlets Cemetery park. Something for everyone and a bit more to boot – find all the events here.

Stuck for words? Learn the language of flowers or ‘Floriography’ at the Dalston Eastern curve garden – very popular with the Victorians – say ‘I think I’m falling in love’ through flowers. Or say it in a different way by making your very own wire sculpture.

You could learn how to convert a basketball court into a growing space or find out what makes a five-star Bee Hotel.

Need to put your feet up? Discover a bar like no other, watch ‘The not quite Royal Variety Show’ in a Community Kitchen Garden or enjoy a day of art and music under a 500 year old cedar tree

We’re blooming chuffed to be hosting such an array of wonderful events – meet you by the tree.

Your London weekend at the Fringe Sat 21st-Sun 22nd May

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The first weekend of the Fringe is packed to the brim with hidden community gems, new skills for you to learn and mouthwatering offerings. Events are listed by area & alphabetically below-happy planning!

Sat 21st May – see full saturday listings around the world here

PopFarm-Brixton

Free training session today from 10am-1pm. Visit the community garden which has ornamental and edible areas. Free training sessions run during the Fringe, on Thurs and Sat from 10-1.

Brixton Living wall

7:00 am – 5:00 pm – free. Brixton Living Wall was made from salvaged and recycled materials and planted as a solution to greening a derelict back yard space in Brixton on a low budget. See how to green up an awkward space for very little cost.

Camden Town Weed and Plant Identification Walk

11:00 am – 12:00 pm – free, please register. Learn to identify the tiniest seedlings and thus encourage the plants you want and stop those you’re not so keen on from becoming a nuisance.

Common Thread – A Knitted Landscape-Hackney

Common Thread have knitted a model of their beloved Common-on permanent display in Stoke Newington Library. Workshop today: Knitting the Common 2pm – 4pm, Stoke Newington Library – on how they set about designing and making the Common

The molecular cube: a hidden garden-Hackney

11:00 am – 5:00 pm-free. Drs Eva Galante and Christian Capelli present a “molecular” garden-combining art and science. Every Sat morning from 11 am till 1 pm during the Fringe Eva will be there to present the work and answer your questions.

What’s the buzz?-Hackney
From 12-5pm. Workshops running all day or just drop in, free. Lauriston School’s award winning vegetable garden hosts a range of art, craft and gardening workshops inspired by bees and other pollinators.

A Spring Clean-Hackney

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm-£13 – £16. Find out how servants used to clean the home in springtime, then create your own natural cleaning products using herbs and other ingredients.  Inspired by Geffrye Museum’s free exhibition.

Damselflies in spring-Hackney

May 21 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm-free. Escape the hustle and bustle of Chatsworth Road Market, enter through the charming walled-in yard to see mini installations, artefacts and original artists’ prints of all things floral.

‘Floriography: The Bureau of the Unsaid’-Hackney

1-5pm. ‘The Bureau of the Unsaid’ revives the Victorian tradition of expressing your deepest feelings with a bouquet. Visit  this pop-up florist’s office, filled with flowers entirely made from paper and make your own coded bouquet.

Topiary on the Thames-Hammersmith and Fulham

Today 10:00 am – 12:30 pm join Jake Hobson, expert topiarist, for a demonstration day at Fulham Riverside, where he will be hosting a master class. Free event, but booking is essential as numbers are limited.  Refreshments will be served.

Imagining The Wharf Garden: Guided tour-Islington

A ‘Guided Tour’ by foot and by boat of The Wharf Garden, a new 40 metre planting scheme located along the Regents Canal. Each tour will last approximately 30mins and spaces are limited, please register.

Heath Robinson Exhibition at Harrods-Kensington and Chelsea

12:00 pm – 9:00 pm – free.  Harrods hosts a month-long Heath Robinson exhibition, showcasing the works of an innovative artist, cartoonist and social historian. With a wide range of illustrations, the exhibition honours the idea of the British eccentric.

New commission by Rachael Champion-Lambeth

10:00 am – 5:00 pm – artist Rachael Champion has created an artwork for a disused railway arch using materials commonly found on major construction sites and development projects- contrasting these with ecological matter.

Greenhouse Effect-Lambeth

11:00 am – 5:00 pm. Visit Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall and its SpaceShip Earth garden- a laboratory and hot house for emerging visual artists. With roof garden made entirely from upcycled materials and voluntary labour.

Telegraph Hill Open Gardens Trail-Lewisham

10:00 am – 2:00 pm – voluntary donations welcome for local charity This Trail will give you an opportunity to explore local gardens and community gardening projects around Telegraph Hill. In addition, there will be a Plant Fair at St Catherine’s Church from 1-4pm

Jardiniere-Newham

11:00 am – 4:00 pm – free. An interior scene displaying slate sculpture and vessels incorporating planting and floral arrangements; recreating a Fin de Siecle bohemian setting for printed textiles and original watercolours in the historic House Mill.

Floating Garden in Burgess Park-Southwark

11:00 am – 3:00 pm – Free. Join Artists at Art in the Park to make a floating garden on the lake in Burgess Park. You can contribute to a large flower or make a small flower. The floating garden will be launched on the lake on Sunday 22nd May between 11am – 2pm.

The Potting Shed – Tower Hamlets

Botanical-themed clay workshops in the courtyard gallery to celebrate the joy of early summer flowers. Make unique floral decorated plates-numbers are limited so booking is required.

Plants and People: Dyeing Workshop-Tower Hamlets

10:00 am – 3:30 pm – £45.00. Hands-on workshop including a walk around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, to forage for the bountiful supply of wild plants and flowers. create your own beautifully dyed textiles, using natural materials and sustainable processes.

Plants and People: Wild Food-Tower Hamlets

1.30pm – 3.30pm-£8-please book. Walk a foraging trail and learn basic plant identification techniques and how to sustainably harvest at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Nibble on leaves, berries and roots and make your own wild salad.

Roundabout Refresh-Wandsworth

Enjoy the beautiful new landscape design for Queen Circus roundabout by Churchman Landscape Architects. Open for duration of festival-all welcome to enjoy, no booking needed!

Behind the Wall-Wandsworth

From 7am – 8.30am today, free tour of the New Covent Garden Flower Market. Only 20 places available on each tour so book now to avoid disappointment. Tour runs on Weds 1st June too.

Flowering of the Maidens by Red, Eden & Olive-Wandsworth

9.30am-4.00pm, drop in anytime.  Free, no booking required. Get involved with a floral adornment of the garden statues at Brunswick House or browse an array of reclaimed and salvaged stock.

Fragment by Anna Flemming-Wandsworth
Today and tomorrow 11am – 5pm – platform 1 Gallery host an exhibition of recent works by Anna Flemming who is influenced by the practice of constructing artificial ruins as garden ornamentation. Part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe.

Edible Avenue – Pot it up!-Wandsworth

11:00 am – 2:00 pm – free. The Edible Bus Stop are holding a potting up event and are presenting their designs for the area for a community consultation. Plant up herb plants and nurture at home-replant into the scheme once the planters are built in June – or keep them!

A Very British HMQ90 at The Connaught-City of Westminster

8:00 am – 6:00 pm – free. The Connaught Hotel and Indoor Garden Design, RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winner, have created a “very British garden” at the entrance to the hotel in Carlos Place in celebration of the Queen’s 90th birthday.


 

Sunday 22nd May – see full sunday listings around the world here

Freedom Street Opening-Belgravia

5-6pm-free. Orange Square in Pimlico transformed into ‘Freedom Street’- decorated with colourful, floriferous planters. To celebrate our freedom and call for the same for Britain’s victims of modern slavery. Come along to enjoy the flowers, choir and sing-a-long.

PopFarm-Brixton – see saturday above

Brixton Living wall – see saturday above

Camden Town Weed and Plant Identification Walk – see saturday above

Common Thread – A Knitted Landscape-Hackney – see saturday above

The molecular cube: a hidden garden-Hackney – see saturday above

Damselflies in spring-Hackney – see saturday above

‘Floriography: The Bureau of the Unsaid’-Hackney – see saturday above

Blooming Bees-Hounslow

11:00 am – 3:00 pm-free. Come and find out about growing plants for bees, how bees are cared for and taste some honey. Pot up your own bee friendly plant to take away-garden trails for children will also be on offer.  

Heath Robinson Exhibition at Harrods-Kensington and Chelsea – see saturday above

New commission by Rachael Champion-Lambeth  – see saturday above

Greenhouse Effect-Lambeth – see saturday above

Fete and film – Lambeth

2-9pm. See some rarer herbarium specimens and books on display, at this botanical garden. At 9.00pm, they’ll be an outdoor botanically themed film, ‘Silent Running’- free.

Jardiniere-Newham – see saturday above

Floating Garden in Burgess Park-Southwark – see saturday above

Get Tied-Up – Temple

11:00 am – 3:00 pm Flower arranging with home grown blooms through free drop-in workshops taught by Andrea Brunsendorf, the Head Gardener at the Inner Temple. Take part in a workshop or just visit to enjoy the 3 acres of the garden.

Diggers-Temple

Singing at get Tied-up Temple today (see event above)-a gardeners’ choir-open to all they sing to support gardening initiatives or, occasionally, to protest. All welcome to come and sing-along to some well-known ‘garden’ songs.

The Potting Shed – Tower Hamlets – see saturday above

Plants and People: Folklore-Tower Hamlets

1.30-3.30pm-Free, but booking essential. Learn about the plants in the Cemetery Park and hear the folklore associated with them. Including herbal remedies, riddles and legends concerning plants and much more.

Roundabout Refresh-Wandsworth – see saturday above

Fragment by Anna Flemming-Wandsworth – see saturday above

A Very British HMQ90 at The Connaught-City of Westminster – see saturday above

The Fringe is open-off we go!

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From guerrilla gardens through to well pruned topiary – we’ve got it all!

Check out a run down of this week’s events in London here and for full UK and global listings search by date here.

I was lucky enough to meet some of the people involved with the events in the Fringe this week so here’s some snapshots of why a few of them want to share their projects with us-what a wonderful bunch.

Rebecca Wells talked about the What’s the buzz event – which is in the school playground of her children’s school in Hackney. She told me it was wonderful to have a calm and contemplative place as part of the school which the children are so proud of. Get down there tomorrow to enjoy crafting, chickens and maybe a glass of Pimms – from midday.

Seb talked to me about the PopFarm in Brixton which he said was such a delight of a place for him because of its multicultural feel- it’s an enjoyable and exciting place in the middle of buzzing Brixton where you can watch things grow from seeds to edible forms. Sound like your cup of tea? They’re running a training session from 10-1pm tomorrow or just pop along to see what it’s all about.

Dr Eva Galante presented me with a picture in black and white – ‘what is it?’ she asked – ‘A tree!’ I replied- it turned out to be the blood vessels in a kidney, of course! Expect surprises like this and more at The molecular cube: a hidden garden in Dalston – where science is made beautiful and accessible to all.

Happy Fringe to you all – enjoy exploring and chatting. Please share your conversations with us via social media – links at the bottom of the page.

One week left of summer fringe joy

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As soon as we stepped into the craft fair a friendly voice asked us – ‘want to  make something?’ and the whole day was like that at the summer fair at Tower Hamlets cemetery park – people sharing skills, knowledge or their voices- if it was The Diggers singing. I left the day with a wonderfully crooked bird house weaved with willow and very relaxed indeed-I’ll let you know if anything decides to live in my bird house…

The weekend also included a trip to the wonderful Common Thread – A Knitted Landscape-Hackney and the fascinating molecular cube: a hidden garden– in Dalston Eastern Curve Gaden- both a must see – on until the 12th June.

If you’re looking for an evening event to tickle the brain cells this week you could try Organic food growing for real beginners– on Thursday in Newham or finding out what’s living in Burgess park on Tuesday eve.

Fancy a knees up on Friday? How about Campfire club in Southwark on Friday, Barbara Hepworth Summer Garden Party or Folk and flowers?
Whatever you do this week – make sure you get down to a fringe event and enjoy one of these delightfully green pockets of summer joy.

Your last weekend of the fringe-will it be wire sculptures, folk music or a campfire…?

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Don’t worry, you can do all three this weekend!

Pop down to Folk and Flowers to soothe your ears on Friday then skip down to  Campfire club in Southwark to excite your eyes. On Sunday, stroll down to Camden to make a wire sculpture to remember the weekend by.

And what to do for the rest of the weekend? I hear you cry! Don’t worry, it’s absolutely jam packed. Go to a picnic at Priory Common Orchard in Haringey, visit a unique pothole tribute to Bowie, follow an Orchard poetry tour in Lambeth and wander around a magic garden…

You can chuckle away at The not quite Royal Variety Show in Kensington Olympia  or decorate a cupcake Beneath the Willow in Hackney.

And this isn’t even the half of it. See a full list of London events or all events across the UK here (search by date).

London has turned in to a patchwork of magical, green, community events – I know I don’t want the Fringe to end. Let’s make this final weekend the sizzling celebration it should be – enjoy!

 

Dates for 2017 are 20th May to 4th June

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The Chelsea Fringe Festival of 2017 will be slightly shorter, but more concentrated!  It will be from 20th May to 4th June.

You can still contact us at info@chelseafringe.com with ideas for Chelsea Fringe 2017 and although you may not get an immediate response we’ll pick it up at some point

Also see Get Involved.

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