7th Bath Fringe Art Fair

Once again, your opportunity to buy art direct from the artists. Paintings, prints, ceramics and all things creative displayed beneath this old station's vaulted glass roof. Work ranges from accessible to avant garde and we'll oil the wheels of this annual social occasion with a little light lunchtime live music & performance.

Green Park Station    10am - 5pm
Admission Free
Promoted by Fringe Art Fair Committee
Sponsored by Green Park Station

The Fringe Art Fair goes back as far as the current Fringe administration, to 1992, when it was known as the Alternative Art Fair - an alternative to the heavily-capitalised Contemporary Art Fair which would in those days settle in the Assembly Rooms, Green Park, or some other such prestige marketplace annually. The CAF was nationally-organised and utterly gallery-orientated, whereas the Fringe's event has
always been locally-run on the basis of artists selling direct to the public "to introduce the artists and the public to each other to break down mutual suspicion", says illustrator/painter Felicity Bowers, one of the original prime-movers. They've stuck with that philospophy and watched it become the vogue - artist-led initiatives are utterly de rigeur nowadays, darling, and once again Bath Fringe was in there early.

Although locally-organised there's nothing parochial about the Art Fair; it has always attracted artists from all round the country, artists attracted by the extremely high standard of work shown and sold, the social atmosphere among artists and visitors, the way it's arranged and the artfully-scattered music and performances between stalls. It is a competitive event, under half of the artists who enter are admitted (and there have been over a hundred of those this year) and priority is given to painters, 2D work and sculpture over the functional crafts which dominate other fairs. It's another annually-important event under the Fringe banner, of which we're extremely proud, and there's no better chance to see or even buy something utterly different but utterly beautiful, a million miles from chainstore design and unlimited-run prints. A one-off not to miss.

'Fabulous Creature' Rufus Dawson Could be yours at The Fringe Art Fair

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

Mike Moran Productions

Enter the eccentric world of Nobel Prize winner and bongo drummer Richard Feynman. With samba rhythms and exuberant storytelling, waves, particles and gravity explode on stage in laughter and tears. No knowledge of science required....big sense of humour useful. With drumming from Rick Bamford (Cauld Blast Orchestra) and Mat Clements (Edinburgh Samba School),

The Rondo Theatre     8pm
£5.00/£4.00 conc    <FAB24>.

Hoodoo Shimmy

Best new-to-us US-flavoured blues band we've heard in a very long time. A shimmy out of the ordinary.

The Bell    lunchtime
free

Baka Beyond

Celebrating the release of their 4th CD 'Journey Between' on Hannibal, BB are the original afro-celt fusionists: soaring instrumental work from Martin 'Outback' Cradick & French fiddle superstar Paddy Le Mercier laid on an intricate bed of pure African rhythm & sewn together by the vocal interplay of Su Hart & Kate Hardy. It's either sublimely restful or the best organic dance music you can find - depends on your mood - and you're welcome at Windows whichever...

Windows Art Centre
8pm £6/£4
Sponsored by Demuth's Vegetarian Restaurant.