Fresh Coastal Currents 07 Sat 15 Sep 2006, from 12noon, FREE
Fresh! atCoastal Currents
Hastings town centre

Coastal Currents welcomes the return of some familiar faces from 2006 with new works from: Katie Etheridge ('Hollow Lady' 2006), who returns with Shed Lives, Jenny Edbrooke with Sexy Part III ‘The Hole Story’ and ending our festival on 23 September with Rajni Shah with 'Dinner with America'.

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Sounds Verbal Tues 24 July, 8pm doors, £8 (£6)
Sounds Verbal at the
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
London

Live art, electronics, performance poetry and contemporary classical music communing with the spit and sawdust in the super chic squalor of the illustrious Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. An intimate encounter with some of the world's finest performance artists hailing from Australia, Canada and the UK. Live and for one night only!

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marcia farquhar Sat 28 April, from 12noon, £10
Fresh! at South Street, Reading


22 of the UK’s most exciting artists descend on South Street for another fabulous Fresh. The exquisite line up includes a new performance from the inimitable Marcia Farquhar, superb visual theatre from Al Seed & Ben Faulks and another enigmatic intervention by Fresh-favourite Eitan Buchalter

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Brian Catling Sat 27 Jan, from 12noon, £10 (£8, £5)
Fresh! at South Hill Park, Bracknell

The most beautiful, bizarre and brilliant in new live work and video from 37 of the UK’s most exciting artists.  The programme includes a special performance from internationally renowned artist Brian Catling, William Hunt’s Call John the Boatman, a new work by Fresh-favourite Eitan Buchalter and Gordon McKenna’s film, monkey.

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Sat 23 Sep 2006, from 11am
Fresh! atCoastal Currents
Hastings, FREE (+ £5 cabaret)

The biggest Fresh event to date with performances taking place throughout Hastings' Old Town. Featuring Curious, Rajni Shah, Katie Etheridge, Ben Faulks, Anna-Helena McLean (Gardzienice)'s new company BangzeD, The Las Vegas Mermaids and many many more. It's going to be amazing!

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Sat 22 July, from 11am, FREE
Fresh! at Southampton Live!

A new event for Southampton, this one day free festival takes place beside the Civic Centre.

Expect a vibrant array of street arts, music, comedy, readings and circus as well as some very special performances from the Fresh programme.


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Sat 1 July, from 11am, FREE
Fresh! at Big Day Out
South Hill Park, Bracknell

Big Day Out is one of South Hill Park's biggest events, this one day free festival takes place in the arts centre's grounds and mansion house.

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Sat 29 April, from 11am, £1
Fresh! at the Maltings Festival
The Farnham Maltings

As part of the Maltings Festival, Fresh artists will be performing back to back in the Long Kiln Room. A whole day's programme of performances from eleven of the region's most promising artists.

Curated by the Maltings creative producer, Rajni Shah, this Fresh event features poetry readings, live art, and a performance in an old Vauxhal astra!

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Sat 22 April, from 2pm, £10 (£8)
Fresh! at South Street, Reading

Brilliant performances will be tucked into every nook and cranny of South Street arts centre to provide an eye-popping day of brilliant new work from the UKs most exciting emerging artists!

Headlining the day will be Al Seed with his blistering new solo show The Factory.

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Wed 8 Feb - Wed 8 Mar
Fresh! at South Hill Park, Bracknell

With the success of the festival, Fresh is running a whole season of fantastic new work from the UK's most exciting emerging artists. Featuring brilliant new theatre and life affirming cabaret nights!

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Sat 28 Jan, from 12noon, £8 (£6)
Fresh! at South Hill Park, Bracknell

Following the runaway success of the first Fresh festival in May, this vibrant cross-platform festival is expanding in 2006. Kicking off with an exhilarating one-day, all-day launch extravaganza,

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Fri 27 & Sat 28 May, £10
Fresh! at South Hill Park, Bracknell

South Hill Park opens its doors to over 20 new and emerging artists for the first ever Fresh festival; a platform for in-progress performance work curated by Richard Kingdom of Demonstrate, the arts centre's resident theatre company. The enthusiasm of South Hill Park's Chief Executive, Ron McAllister, and all the arts centre's staff made this brilliant new event possible and to all of them we owe a huge debt of gratitude; thank you!

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