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.
If poets are meant to be good at comparison, why can bringing ideas together feel so difficult? In this workshop we'll play games, explore poems, and do writing exercises uniting even tangentially related thoughts.
A night of performances that remind us of pride's rebellious origins. Smashing boundaries & binaries, this will be an unforgettable night brining together queer performers & community!
Performance by Artist Hal Camplin, a form of healing ritual punctuated by the emergence of a badger spirit held in the imagination and movement…
“打毛衣” (“knitting sweaters”) references domestic labour in 1980s–90s China. 2 day live installation of continuous public knitting performances emphasising process, openness, and transformation.
“打毛衣” (“knitting sweaters”) references domestic labour in 1980s–90s China. 2 day live installation of continuous public knitting performances emphasising process, openness, and transformation.
Tombola Tombola turns a familiar game of chance into an absurdly generous ritual: every visitor wins an oil-painted raffle ticket, questioning why society accepts that only some people can succeed.
A night of patched circuits and projected light. Modules talking to modules. Signal becoming image. The room rebuilt in haze, lasers, and low-frequency air.
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE LAST UNICORN: you will see a unicorn wandering through the streets of Bath.
Bath Art Circle warmly invite you to the Private View for Elemental
Join the Artists, Curators and FaB team to celebrate the opening of Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2026 with a donations bar, plus performances, exhibitions & interventions and more.
Live rock music party with " DES Jet Man" and " Corvid. At The Hop Pole pub.
Free-for-All : Closing Event. Meet the Artists. Meet the Curators.
A fond Farewell to Free-for-All and FaB 2025 . Music, Merch’ and Merriment. All Welcome. Sat 7 June from 2pm.
A small family-friendly festival - for lovers of Bodypainting, henna, facepainting or creative makeup, this is a must.
This screening explores identity, boundaries, and migration through the lens of Queer theory and the Asian diaspora, critically engaging with colonial and postcolonial discourse.
Spoken word artists will share among the FaB exhibits.
There will be cake and tea/coffee with space to chat about our work. and slots for sharing.
Not a slam but a poetry cuddle.
Aimless Drift – A New Dawn is a sensory workshop blending tea, storytelling, and art to evoke calm and presence—inviting participants to slow down, reflect, and reconnect through mindful experience.
“Join us for an evening of poetry celebrating the the tender joys of queer love (platonic and romantic). We can't wait to see you there and show you how much love there is for a community that the government is trying to tear down.”
You’re invited to walk around a labyrinth painting - wander in and out of a path, to unlock creative energy through unusual movement, twists and turns. Art materials also available to use.
A puppet drama about snail racing and a family feud. Will Speedy become the world champion? Will the brothers ever resolve their argument ? Puppets. Storytelling. Songs.
Live Bûto dance performance. I had nowhere to go so I hid in the corners of the house, always for a time that I knew to be limited.
This intimate, public performance explores choice, nurture, and autonomy. It contrasts infants' fight for agency with the elderly's resistance to dependency, revealing our lifelong tension between independence and the need for care.
A communal tea ceremony inviting reflection, play, and mindfulness—encouraging sensory awareness, slowing down, and fostering connection through shared rituals of brewing, tasting, and being present together.
Untitled (In Font) explores consumption and power, linking land, goods, and the female body. Eating a cherry becomes a charged act—of entitlement or reclamation—under the gaze of others.
Join us for the ritual destruction of all our bad memories collected by Olga Ast during FAB this year.
We need you to drum and clap!
An invitation to witness a composition written by FollowTheSun, performed by Mr Christian Duckworth.
Performance exploring the contradictory nature of the restrictive and bewildering expectations often placed on women.
Live performance piece by artist Jennifer Ng.
The dastardly super-villain returns to Fringe Arts Bath improvising chaos and confusion with violin and syntheziser. Exploring sound space while feeling his way through a forest of memories.
Bath's monthly poetry night, featuring Aish Humphreys as well as our wonderful open mic (slots available on the door).
An afternoon of live art performance that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of false memory.
Awe inspiring performances by students from ‘University of the Circus Arts’, Bristol’s Circomedia
Join us across FaB venues to celebrate the opening of Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2024.
FaB is back with 2 weeks of free exhibitions, events and performances across the city of Bath and you’re all invited!