Sponsoring Organizations
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Fringe University is an organization that works with multiple universities and organizations to create an international learning experience utilizing international fringe festivals (particularly the Edinburgh Festival Fringe). To create and offer the best experiences for our students, it is crucial that we work with the best organizations related to the fields in which we work.
Demarco European Arts Foundation
Fringe University works closely with the Demarco European Art Foundation. Our connection with this foundation allows our students access to the best archive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as, all the other aspects of the archive. In addition, through the foundation, we have access to not only a number of historically and artistically amazing guest speakers, but Richard Demarco has graciously given us access to himself. (His bio is posted below.) Richard Demarco (born in Edinburgh, 1930) is an artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. He has been one of Scotland’s most influential advocates for contemporary art through his work at the Richard Demarco Gallery and the Demarco European Art Foundation, as well as his professorship at Kingston University in London. His contributions to contemporary art internationally have been recognised on numerous occasions, receiving thePolish Gold Order of Merit, the Cavaliere della Republica d’Italia, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres de France and theOrder of the British Empire. He was co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963. Three years later he and other organisers of the gallery space left the Traverse to establish what became the Richard Demarco Gallery. For many years, the Gallery promoted cross-cultural links, both in terms of presenting artists such as Marina Abramovic within Scotland and in establishing outgoing connections for Scottish artists across Europe. His involvement with Joseph Beuys led to various presentations, from Strategy Get Arts in 1970 to Beuys' hunger strike during the Jimmy Boyle Days in 1980. Also particularly notable were the presentations by Tadeusz Kantor's Cricot 2 group during the 1970s and 1980s. An unofficial performance of The Water Hen at the former Edinburgh poorhouse during the Edinburgh Festival in 1972 was a notable success. Cricot 2 returned to Edinburgh in later years. Demarco introduced Beuys and Kantor to one another and in one performance of Lovelies and Dowdies Beuys performed under Kantor's direction. Since the early 1990s, Richard Demarco's activity has been through the Demarco European Art Foundation. Richard Demarco has attended every Edinburgh Festival. He has attended or been extensively involved with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, since its inception. |
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Summerhall
Fringe University has worked closely with Summerhall since its debut year.
From August 2012, Summerhall will be open to the public all year round and will host events in all the City’s major festivals. But it’s far more than Edinburgh’s newest and biggest arts venue. Visitors will find theatre and gallery spaces, libraries and small museums, educational and research programmes, studios, workshops and the seven storey Tech Cube.
It’s a new kind of community: a cross cultural village where arts and sciences talk to each other, where high tech rubs shoulders with all the arts including film and television and a craft brewer has revived a three hundred year old tradition of brewing on the site. Our Bar/Café is suitably named The Royal Dick, a nod to our building’s famous veterinary history.
Summerhall has a unique atmosphere. It has already become a favourite location for making films, four alone since we started work in January 2012
Most importantly Summerhall is a work in progress – as more space is developed more ideas emerge. Here the possibilities are endless, “everyone is an artist”.
From August 2012, Summerhall will be open to the public all year round and will host events in all the City’s major festivals. But it’s far more than Edinburgh’s newest and biggest arts venue. Visitors will find theatre and gallery spaces, libraries and small museums, educational and research programmes, studios, workshops and the seven storey Tech Cube.
It’s a new kind of community: a cross cultural village where arts and sciences talk to each other, where high tech rubs shoulders with all the arts including film and television and a craft brewer has revived a three hundred year old tradition of brewing on the site. Our Bar/Café is suitably named The Royal Dick, a nod to our building’s famous veterinary history.
Summerhall has a unique atmosphere. It has already become a favourite location for making films, four alone since we started work in January 2012
Most importantly Summerhall is a work in progress – as more space is developed more ideas emerge. Here the possibilities are endless, “everyone is an artist”.
