Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2026
Bath's annual festival of contemporary visual arts, with free exhibitions, events and interventions across the city.
Many more events to come, watch this space for updates
Bath's annual festival of contemporary visual arts, with free exhibitions, events and interventions across the city.
‘The most profound things are inexpressible’, Jenny Holzer, Truisms. A curated film screening that reflects the intersection of the personal and political in thoughtful and thought-provoking ways.
Doors open 6.30pm, film starts 7pm.
Industrial Biker Western set in Severn Beach? You’re ON!
A film about the migration toads make each winter, the dangers they face along the way, and the life saving work of the Charlcombe Toad Patrol.
A return to Bath Fringe Festivals’ annual survey of made-in-Bath film: this year’s, recent, and historic [well, pre-video, anyway]. We so much enjoyed this last year we’re scouring the archives and our contacts for more of the same, hoping you’ll enjoy it too.
This screening explores identity, boundaries, and migration through the lens of Queer theory and the Asian diaspora, critically engaging with colonial and postcolonial discourse.
We are excited to announce a night of short films by visual artists and filmmakers from across the Southwest. Free.
This screening + Q&A with the filmmakers shines a light on how artist-filmmakers explore the universal theme of loss in deeply personal films that are boldly expressive and richly nuanced.
This screening + Q&A with the filmmakers shines a light on how artist-filmmakers explore the universal theme of loss in deeply personal films that are boldly expressive and richly nuanced.
A selection of new & vintage films by local film-makers.
FaB is back with 2 weeks of free exhibitions, events and performances across the city of Bath and you’re all invited!
True indie film on VHS! Film screening + Q&A with GRIPE Curator Joseph Simons
Karen Wallis’ work from an Artist’s Residency at the Ness of Brodgar excavations on Orkney will be dispayed, alongside her film that combines drawings, paintings and sound, and focuses on the Archaeologists’ everyday process.
An evening of music, a horror film and some tasty discussion with performance by Finglebone, followed by Rewilding - the UK's first ever folk horror anthology, shot on location around Bath.
Space: A screening of Artists’ short films
A curated selection of Artists' films that explore personal and shared experiences of space, whether domestic or public, solitary or communal, against a backdrop of an ever-changing world.
Free, no need to book.
Join us for the screening of two films plus a Q&A with the film-makers John Potter and Phil Shepherd.
MAKE IT A FAIR COP, GLASGOW “we used our senior railcards to take the train to Glasgow to find out more (…) Jeff Bezos had an invitation but not Greta Thunberg. Not a great start.”
ON THE WILD SIDE: Botanist Dave Green reveals plants we ignore at our peril.
Free, no need to book.
An evening of dance in Walcot Chapel both live performance and video work from locally-based dancers & choreographers.
Singing Vessels by Natalie Austin
Mirage by Divija Melally
Invisible Lines by Divija Melally in collaboration with Edwina Pereira, Ella Swannell and Erin Green.
Free, no need to book
The listening session, on the first of Tipping Point’s two day event, will be held in the Walcot Mortuary Chapel, a sacred space and art venue with links to the plagues that decimated the region in earlier centuries.
Free, no need to book
A selection of seven films by Rebecca Hilton, from 2019-2020. The screening includes three films that haven’t been exhibited before, ‘Joy’; ‘Holding’ (in collaboration with Pauline Raybaud) and ‘The Birthday’ (documented by Katherine Plumb).
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A virtual installation made up of over 50 video clips and images – all created during lockdown. Creativity 4 Wellbeing invited regular creative group participants and artists who’ve worked with with them on the Holburne Museum’s Pathways to Wellbeing programme to ‘Show us their Spoons’.
Tonight we share with you the collaborative piece that has emerged from the kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms of our creative community.
View live events @fringeartsbath on fbook / insta / youtube and fringeartsbath.co.uk/2020-now
A virtual installation made up of over 50 video clips and images – all created during lockdown. Creativity 4 Wellbeing invited regular creative group participants and artists who’ve worked with with them on the Holburne Museum’s Pathways to Wellbeing programme to ‘Show us their Spoons’.
Tonight we share with you the collaborative piece that has emerged from the kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms of our creative community.
View live events @fringeartsbath on fbook / insta / youtube and fringeartsbath.co.uk/2020-now
Sandy Creighton brings his tiny pop up cinema to The ICE. One of the shortest films in the world in one of the smallest cinemas in the world.
Immerse yourself in an eclectic programme of pop-up talks, art demos, installations, performances, DJ-sets and cocktails.
FLOATING is an ambient video piece, part of ‘Up Late’ at the Holburne Museum
Celebrating 100 years since the formation of the Bauhaus movement.
Sandy Creighton brings his tiny pop up cinema to The ICE. One of the shortest films in the world in one of the smallest cinemas in the world.
Radical voices from near and far