Big Green Gathering - The Movie

Discover another universe just 40 minutes from your door! Highlights of 1997's friendliest festival on the outdoor circuit, sensitively filmed by Spirit Earth Productions. Public Premiere! BGG Director Anne Waterhouse answers your questions afterwards. Discount tickets for this year's Gathering (29 July - 2 August) available only at this show.

Bath Society Meeting Rooms, Green Park Station    <J3>
7.30pm - 10.30pm
£5.00/£4.00 adv. before 22 May (from Festival Box Office only)
Promoted by Jenterprises Limited
Sponsored by The Green Stationery Company

Quinteto America

This year's Fringe festival is pleased to host a concert of the very best in Latin American acoustic music performed by five musicians from Columbia, Cuba & Bolivia. Their repertoire gathers rhythms from some of the most musically influential countries in the Americas, such as Mexico and Cuba. The unique depth and variety of Latin music is explored on a variety of string instruments including the Venezuelan cuatro, Cuban requinto and violin, and accompanied by percussion and vocals.

Ustinov Studio    8pm
£7.00/£6.00 conc.
Promoted by Ruben Cordero of Latin Massive

Pride Of Bath

Jazz Cruise

See Wed.27 May

Pride of Bath, North Parade Bridge
8pm - 11pm    £8.50    <POB3>

The Flash Company with Rosie Upton

Transported Women

Transported Women is a presentation which reveals through words and music the fate of the many thousands of women who were unjustly transported as convicts. Those that survived the voyage were subsequently condemned to hard labour and slavery as prostitutes. This show is a poignant testimony to their lives.

Window Art Centre Auditorium
8pm    £5.00/£4.00 conc.

Cabaret at the H & F

See Wed.27 May

Hat & Feather Pub (upstairs)
8pm until late
Admission: price of a pint £2

Leikin Loppu Dance Theatre

After 8, Before 9.

After 8 - Everything you wanted to do in a restaurant but never dared !Two diners interact to the music of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, accompanied by a feast of sausage casserole and plate smashing, followed by after dinner mints and cigars.
Before 9 - the morning after...This young and dynamic company, producing compelling and funny work, are influenced by the imagery from silent films and cartoons. "Surprise, slapstick, quirky and surreal elements all blend to create a truly theatrical performance." Total Theatre

The Rondo Theatre     8pm
£5.00/£4.00 conc.    <FAB3>

Acoustic Network

Bath Acoustic Music Club incorporating The Acoustic Network

The Acoustic Network was formed 7 years ago in North London and aims to unite all types of traditional music across the UK. Now based in Bath, Mary English, founder member, organises local events promoting singer/songwriters and acoustic musicians by performance tape, video and by gathering sympathetic creative people from east to west.

Window Arts Centre Café‚     8.30pm
£3.50 on the door only

Mr Phats Funk Emporium presents

Skabop

plus special guests Snatch

Glastonbury 10 piece playing the dance music that rocked Jamaica in the early sixties and laid the foundations of reggae, rocksteady and ragga. Out-and-out dance music with a big brass section and solid rhythms. On stage at 10pm.

Moles Club
Doors open at 9pm
£2.00 members/£2.50 conc./£3.00 guests

Inter-Ference

High culture - just how low can it go? The Godfather of performance poetry embarks on a polyrhythmic rollercoaster of metafizzical funk. Ferenc the possessed stage beast brings hope for the terminally stupid and intermittent transmissions from strange and sinister satellite broadcasts for appreciative intelligentsia. "Check Out" NME.

Green Park Brasserie
10.45pm until late
£2.00/ free to Big Green Gathering movie ticket holders
Promoted by Jenterprises Limited
Sponsored by Green Park Station

Mo Nazam

Polycultural electric jazz from screamingly good Indo/Euro guitarist and hefty London band.

The Bell    9pm
Free

Sweet Soul Sisters

Acapella harmonies

Walcot Palais
9pm    £3.50