Who we are

'Welcome to the Fringe Palestine' is a festival bringing Palestinian art to the Edinburgh Fringe. We want to platform their voices and celebrate Palestinian art and culture, with freedom and without censorship.

We are an independent group of Scottish based writers, dancers, theatre-makers, publishers and producers who have worked regularly in Palestine and the wider Middle East over many decades.

We have gained enormously from this cultural exchange and we think Scotland and Scottish audiences have benefited from it too. Now is the time to reciprocate, however we can.

We embrace the lessons in hospitality, culture and liberation that we have learnt from our Palestinian friends and colleagues and want to bring that spirit to the Festival. And we want you to come and share in their work. There will be art and politics, as well as laughter, music, food, drink, stories, jokes and conversation.


You can contact us on welcometothefringe@gmail.com 


Acknowledgments

 

The core group of organisers behind this project are: Henry Bell, Catrin Evans, Leonor Estrada, David Greig, Ben Harrison, Farah Saleh, Sara Shaarawi, with support from Independent Arts Projects and Workers Theatre Cooperative.  

There are a number volunteers working on this project who we are all so grateful to. We will include a full list here shortly.  

We would like to wish the most enormous and heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our supporters, including Creative Scotland, and all the wonderful individuals and organisations who contributed to our Crowdfunder (sometimes more than once). We have received over 433 donations so far from 430 supporters with donations ranging from £3 to £3,500. 

 

We are so grateful to: Fiona Ferguson, Anonymous, Sean Biggerstaff, Jock Strap, Anonymous, Christine De Luca, josie long, Duncan McLean, Kathrine Sowerby, Kenny MacAskill, Katy Hastie, Caitlin Skinner, Julie Rose Bower, Gregory Metcalfe, Alistair Bohm, Andrew Rubens, Ryan Vance, Eoin McKenzie, Sarah Dinwoodie, Chlobo Massimo, Rosie Hopkins, David Cook, Cook Creative Ltd, Josh Goodman, Deborah Hahn, Lucy Suggate, Douglas Greenshields, Helen McIntosh, chazgay, Sarah Hopfinger, Tam Dean Burn, Laura Gillespie, Marie Klimis, Scott Ramage, Janette Foggo, Annie Macaulay, Jamie Stewart, Hannah, Liz Niven, Suzanne Butler, Morag Wells, Nicholas Bell, Brian McGowan, Mamoru Iriguchi, Elena Silverstein, Mhari Robinson, Pamela Ann Walker, Niroshini Thambar, Tiff Kane, Jillian Franklin, Morven Macbeth, Maria Falconer & Paul Hill, Serena Naismith, Jenifer Evans, Zoe Wicomb, Hannah Mackay, Lesley Hart, Deborah Ritchie, Jackie Crichton, Jimmy Reid, Danni Glover, Rachel Hodge, Calum Rodger, Jennifer Dafedjaiye, Richard Rohde, Fatima Uygun, Stephen Metcalfe, Hannah Khalil, Mary Fisher-Adams, Graham Bryce, Jade Yong, Teresa Bailey, Chris Mitchell, Astrid Allen, Anita Clark, Martine McIntosh, Jan-Bert van den Berg, Anna Broomfield, Sara Davies, Clare Mc Cann, Rachel McCrum, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Dr Catherine Mangan, Anne Marie Woods, Clive Jackson, Rania, Uri Horesh, Lauren Hall-Lew, Jemima Levick, Juliet wrightson, Liane Alghusain, Gill Chadwick, Antony Clark Brown, Rona, Claire Duquesne, Danny Alderslowe, Catriona Fraser, Eva Doherty, Joanne Thomson, Scott Duguid, Austin Yuill, Joe Jackson, Sergul Fibi Halil, Nelly Kelly, Douglas Cruickshank, Steve Kettley, Guri Le Riche, Dave Stone, Alison Waugh, Evangelia Karydi, Ellen Renton, Molly Taylor, Zack Price, Sandra Horne, Meredith Brook Young, Pamela Evans, Leah Miller-Biot, Kelly, Croob1990, Marion Bourbouze, Imaginate Una Fraser, Take Me Somewhere, The Work Room, Lewis Hetherington, Christopher Silver, Karine Hay, Lou Brodie, Paula Hastie, Kate Headland, Sadie Ryan, Mike Cowley, Micky Kelly, Rahul-Jai Sharma, NUJ Edinburgh & District Branch, Margaret Thomas, Lucy Sinclair, Jim McGrother, Nabil Hayat, Zarak Khan, Mohammed Shaheen, Eddie Majnemer, Burhan Dar, Joseph Bearer, Adam Rothstein, Hazim El-Haddad, Jennifer McKeown, Kieran Sheedy, Anna Breathnach, Julie Hart, Tabitha Brower, Sam Connolly, Aeron Premo, Jeremy Mitchell, Sylvia Crick, Roderick Shippin, Jez MacDonald, Cybele Knowles, Andrée Dignon, Laura Landry, Aziz Khiyami, Nadia Jones, Ingólfur Gíslason, Jackie Walker, Fouad Dakwar, William Bird, Kirstin McQuillan, Monika Hartmann, Salwa Jones, ASeriousTom, Nadia Tighe, Jordan Baggley, Andrew Davidson, Lorenzo Mele, Pierino Cuschera, Ewa Jasiewicz, Eman El-Bahnassawy, Desert Saffron, Katie Nelson, Rebecca Bolthouse, Alexandra Elliott, Michelle, Martina Bianchi, Perveen Hussain, Sanna Laitinen, Stephen Donovan, Claire Chalmers, Alison M Phelps, Ken Hare, Florence Campbell-Gray, Lotta, MancunianIan, Richard Thanki, Peter Knight, mattkebbell, Ambre Mehenni, Maja Grings, Persephone Lock, Chlobo Massimo, Cress, Fionn Ó Loingsigh, Angela Walsh, Linda Heap, Hussein Mitha, Catherine Hutchinson, Lesley Anne Roach, Teresa Galligan, Joey McCarthy, Catriona MacLean, Cora Bissett, Arthur Radley, Mary Gapinski, Jack O'Neill, Grace Richards, Tahiya Kamal, Melissa Lee-Litowitz, Nick Sims, Susannah Armitage, Tom Bramwell, Alexander McCall Smith, Samantha McCarty, Val McDermid, Janet Sixsmith, Richard Sixsmith, Johanna Hartley, Beth Frieden, Adam Ward, Carey Blackburn, Anthony Weber, Kirsty SR, Adam King, Maryam Hamidi, John Naples-Campbell, Robert Macmillan, Alex, Laura Fisher, Jane Cunningham, Ewan Downie, Kathlyn Gadd, Laika Dajani, Paddy Higson, Lisa Kapur, Carol McKay, Ben Bonnema, Graham Checkley / Unite Retired Trade Union Branch, Dave Maric, Neil Still, Jen Collins, Michael Howrie, Ingrid gubbay, Steven McNally, David Johnson, Marian Grimes, Claire McDonald, Annesha Sil, Adam Fitzpatrick, Govanhill Baths Community Trust, Betty Gordon, Katharine Reid, Owen O'Leary, Reyahn King, Hannah Kirby, Sally chalmes, Heather Chalkley, Anna Mikelsone, Gabby815, Maria Kandasamy, Leyla, Alice Nelson, Jenny Hoy, Helen Scott, Danny Cepok, Jenny Slangen, Stephen B Davis, Hannah Knox, Crawford McInally, Lee Brown, Alistair Sim, Lesley Sutherland, Briana Pegado, Joe Murray, Chris McKinnell, Rosie Holleran, Homaira Khan, Alison Murphy, Nicky Sanderson, Cathal Mcbride, Shona Macnaughton, Mai-anh Peterson, Kat Heath, Clary Binns, Mason Pew, Shelley Dickerson, Anonymous, Anonymous, Oisín Kealy, Sanne Jehoul, Scott Lyons, Nezar Alderazi, Rima Armstrong, Linda Stuart, Neil Metcalfe, Joshua Lohr, Koenraad Augustijnen, Conner Milliken, Fiona Ferguson, Louise Stephens, Kirstin Innes, Nicholas Bone, Magnetic North, Independent Arts Projects, Curious Seed, Arika, All or Nothing, Deirdre Heddon, Kareem Nasif, Linda McLean, Uma Nada-Rajah, Aisling Gallagher, Ellie Moore, MancunianIan, Fishbel, Sawsan AL-Areeqe, Ann Henderson, Eve Christie, Karine Hay, Claire Chalmers, Kirsty SR, Fran, Miriam Nelken, Heather Bradshaw, Samantha A Bennett, Kenny McIntosh, Nancy Holt, Angela Clarke, Helen Scott, Ruth Crocket, Fiona Shea, Laurence Motherwell, Jonathan Ridge, Susy Barreau, Christine Devaney, Karine Hay, Claire Chalmers, Ali Maclaurin, Rosie Holleran, Karine Hay, Tessa Cook, Simon Omiotek & Tessa Cook, Claire Chalmers, Beth Frieden, Catherine Eschle, Amy Golding, Deborah Crewe, Carrie Morris and all those who wished to remain anonymous. 

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