This August, The Forest Arts Collective turns ten years old! To celebrate there is an un-stoppable amount of free theatre and events including the massive 10th Birthday Party on 14 August. If you are in Edinburgh in August, join the ForPub crew in drinking and dancing for the decade!
Here are some of our selected highlights which you’d be a fool to miss. Plus, don’t forget our legendary Forest Fringe Programme (www.forestfringe.co.uk) of new theatre!
Selected highlights for August 2010:
- Monday, 2nd. Tashweesh are a Palestinian group creating a collision between sound and video field recordings.
- Friday, 6th. Test Run, Curated a London arts collective called What they Could Do They Did. These are genius friends of ours. They bleed art.
+ downstairs test run “Quirk“, curated by Forest, feat: goto izume, rapskallion, plaster of plaster, pete wylde
- Saturday, 7th. Forest Festival Opening Party “voodoo kiss”. BIG. Feat: 7VWWVW, Foxgang, White Heath, Rapskallion, Bad Larry +more
- Sunday, 8th. Fashionista catwalk party curated by Glasgow-based Che Camille
- Monday, 9th. Forest Fringe Theatre program opens. Innovative and experimental, multi-award winning: http://www.forestfringe.blogspot.com/
- Wednesday, 11th. 7 till 8pm. 78 speed gramaphone records. Feat: the zoomerians, danny mullins
- Thursday, 12th. Arctic circle, Dan seizure, the hemulen
- Friday 13th. Jiggery Fuckery featuring: Sink, Dead on a live Wire, Rootmitten
- Saturday, 14th. Forest X, 10 years old birthday party. Featherface, Baptism tank, Granny flats, more bands than is possible to name. The insanity of this project is a closely guarded secret. Feat: Humphrey Wood, Fueldiva, Pigeon Pheutus, Silk, the hemulen, Tokamak, Maybe Murtle Turtle, Bristol Branch (Orchestra del sol, spin off), torn strings
- Sunday, 15th. Humelela sessions – African vybz
- Wednesday, 18th. Golden Hour. Spoken word and music. Curated by Forest Publishing, featuring many up and coming writers and poets. Feat. AL Kennedy!!!
- Saturday, 21st. Ultrachip! The first ever Scottish micro 8bit/chip music festival. Featuring many Scottish and UK artists who make music using gameboys or circuit bent equipment (keyboards, speak n spells etc..) See website for all band names.
- Saturday, 21st. Forest Fringe Theatre closing party. The last day of the amazing free theatre program, and their blow out party.
- Sunday, 22nd. Ultrachip! Day 2! See website for all band names.
- Monday, 23rd. Sarah and the snakes, The Leg, Pineapple chunks
- Tuesday, 24th. Foxgang, Outbox, Mobius loop, White Heath
- Wednesday, 25th. dead on a live wire curate.
- Thursday, 26th. Octopus Diamond versus the Bowery – Two now extinct legendary venues that sprung from the Forest, will lock horns in intense passion to bring a night of musical splendour.
+ Downstairs – Plastik fork – electro noise night.
- Friday, 27th. Ten Tracks curates the evening of bands on the edge.
- Saturday, 28th. The happening – spontaneous and impossible, Forest closing party, previously held in tunnels or in tents inside buildings, or even in gardens inside your head. In the past our parties have featured giant cakes, and buckets of paint (thrown at the audience), music made by geniuses and illegal dance offs. Naked bouncy castle and unauthorised street parties. The whole building has been covered silver, or in plants. There will also be art and food and workshops and screenprinting. All this stuff will be free.
And speaking of FREE
Forest Records has released a brand new 10-Year anniversary compilation featuring Golden Hour favourites like St. Jude’s Infirmary, Enfant Bastard, The Sea is Salt, Ryan Van Winkle and many many more!
Celebrating 10 years of the Forest. Dedicated to all our volunteers who made it happen August 2000 to August 2010… x
Features 22 tracks – brand new, unreleased or recent classics from members of the Forest Records Collective and a selection of special guests. 500 copies limited edition CD – buy your copy today at the Forest.
Press play, take off all your clothes and prepare to be touched intimately by the sounds of the Forest: http://forestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/forest-records-presents-x