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Fringe of Colour is a multi-award-winning initiative dedicated to supporting Black people and People of Colour through its online arts festival, Fringe of Colour Films. Now in its second year, the 2021 festival is running from 1-15 August, with 23 unique productions across the two week period.
This year's festival includes filmmakers, performers and writers from over eight different countries (including Scotland, Egypt, Nigeria, England, Iceland, Norway, Belgium and Switzerland), with films in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Gaelic, Shona and British Sign Language. Its programme celebrates own voices, queerness and creativity across numerous genres, including sketch shows, documentary, animation, storytelling, moving image, poetry, music and theatre.
All of the films in the 2021 Fringe of Colour Films programme have English captions or subtitles, Audio Descriptions and British Sign Language interpretations. We welcome audiences from blind, vision impaired, D/deaf and hard of hearing communities to enjoy the wide variety of work in this year’s programme through these access tools.
Free festival Passes are available to Black people and People of Colour who need them, no justification required. If these are of interest, please get in touch with the festival’s organisers at jess@fringeofcolour.co.uk.
To view a full programme of this year’s festival and find tickets, visit Fringe of Colour’s website. You can watch their trailer here.