Thursday 28 May (2)

Bath Children's Art Festival

See Wed.27 May

Royal Victoria Park, Bandstand Site 10.30am - 5pm
Ł2.50 children /Ł1.50 adults and under 5's (Olivers accepted)
Sponsored by B&NES, Sulis Arts, Buro Happold

Albany Artists Cabaret

A deliciously frivolous evening of fun and frolics. Albany Artists present a delectable selection of Bristol's spangliest starlets, cultivated in that extraordinarily fertile hothouse the Albany Centre. Will tickle yer fancy! Featuring: Acrobatic cocktail erotica exotica, tantalising tango, rubber glove slapping, ironing board surfing, music and fantastic fire - guaranteed giggles.

Royal Victoria Park, Bandstand Site,
Kaboodle Cabaret Marquee
7.30pm for 8pm
Ł3.00 <KAB28>

Paka & The Baghdaddies

Paka is from the artistic frontline, extending edge-lifestyle circus into places that even the most out-there performance artists haven't dreamed of, just starting to impact on the arts festival circuit. He brings Matilda his flame-spitting machine and The Baghdaddies, who cram ska, near-eastern music & trad. jazz into a potent party punch.

Window Art Centre 8pm
Ł6.00/Ł5.00 conc.

Folk Roots Knight

Song and dance from four very different bands: Tabs - Acoustic trio - if we're lucky!;

LYDIA'S CHEESE: Sax + accordion = bluesy moods;
PICARDIE - Fiddle, guitar and harmonies from heaven and earth;
ASYLUM SEEKERS: Jigs, reels and great songs from the bigger band.

Walcot Palais 8pm
Ł3.00/Ł2.00 adv/conc.
Promoted by D Angus

Fireraisers' Theatre Company

Andy and Edie

Inside Andy Warhol's Factory

See Wed.27

The Rondo Theatre 8pm
Ł5.00/Ł4.00 conc <FAB28>.

You can be famous for 15 minutes, surely, and you can also be Fringe for 15 minutes (or maybe two hours with an interval). Fireraisers Theatre are one of the companies stretching the envelope of what you can do with theatre in the post-modernist multimedia world, and it's only a matter of time (15 minutes?) before they join the select coterie of those who have taken their art from the Fringes to the mainstream. With a "maim to get a ticket" 5-star review from The Scotsman for the debut of this show at Edinburgh last year, they'll be on the South Bank before you can say "Complicité"

'Andy & Edie' is the auditors' report of what really went on in Andy Warhol's Factory. Andy might just have been the world's first post-modernist (or are the rest of them just post-Warhol?) and that makes Edie Sedgewick the first true contemporary Superstar - complete with the true blue pedigree, pre-Green Lib mink, limo, anorexia & amphetamine habit. You've heard the outside of the legend, you've heard about the parties where the Velvets played all night, didn't you always expect there was a lot more to be told? Your worst suspicions will come true in this show.

Instant Wit

The Quick-Fire Comedy Improvisation Show

'Instant Wit' - the completely improvised show that brings you sketches, gags, songs. bizarre physical positions, surreal situations, flying packets of Instant Whip and prizes!!! - all shaped entirely around audience suggestions.

The Fringe Club
10.30pm for 11pm
Ł3.00 (tickets on the door only)

Thursday 28 May