The Swansea Fringe Festival
Various venues, Swansea
Thurs 3-Sun 6 Oct
The annual Swansea Fringe Festival is a recent, three-year-old addition to Swansea International Festival, created with the intention to close the long-running event. Swansea Fringe is a festival for everyone; some events will be family-friendly and directed towards children where as some will also be, well, a little more adult, with both kinds of event featuring ticketed and free entries in abundance. Embracing the arts via a range of performances in various venues (including, but by no means limited to, Sin City and Mission Gallery), comedy, music and literature are to be expected at this weekend-long event. It will also kick off with a launch party on the first evening with a performance from Afro Cluster, a favourite from the first year of Swansea Fringe.
Swansea Fringe Festival aims to help artists – a number of whom are born and bred in Swansea – break through into competitive industries by giving them a platform to perform in such quick succession of the International Festival. It’s a great opportunity for festivalgoers to expose themselves to the work of local artists and show their support for the potential up-and-comings. The festival has been positively received in its previous years by journalists and attendees alike, setting expectations high for the 2019 version of this event that’s still only just starting out.
Tickets: £25 weekend/£12.50 per day. Info: www.theswanseafringe.com (GE)