Fringe of Colour Responses
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Edinburgh Fringe 2025
From starting The Database in 2018 to preserving its legacy today, Fringe of Colour founder and director Jess Brough looks back to where it all began and celebrates another beautiful summer with Artists of Colour at the Edinburgh festivals.
Recent Topics
COMEDY
In diagnosis limbo, ADHD stories bring a joyful ache
by Shivam Chowdhary | 22 August 2025
DISABILITY
Aaron Pang proves that truth is sexier than tropes
by Haneul Lee | 13 August 2025
ENVIRONMENT
Embodying the climate crisis and reckoning with the body
by Alycia Pirmohamed | 16 August 2024
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
History repeats itself at the Edinburgh Fringe
by Katie Goh | 10 August 2024
MIGRATION AND MOVEMENT
To fall and find a country in the home of your body
by Anahit Behrooz | 06 August 2024
QUEERNESS
Finding the story in anticipation
by Eilidh Akilade | 14 August 2024
Meditations on Art
Embodying the climate crisis and reckoning with the body
by ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED
To fall and find a country in the home of your body
by ANAHIT BEHROOZ
History repeats itself at the Edinburgh Fringe
by KATIE GOH
Longing for a child and waiting for a moment
by EILIDH AKILADE
Guest Editorials
Editorial: We see each other
by ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED
Editorial: Creating work in good company
by CALEB AZUMAH NELSON
Notes on Community
The taste of a mother tongue
by NASIM REBECCA ASL
Editorial: Fringe of Colour returns with a new (and old) mission
by JESS BROUGH
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Rho Chung interviews theatremakers Diana Feng from Don’t Call Me China Doll and Sierra Sevilla from For the Love of Spam about their Edinburgh Fringe shows, unpacking racial stereotypes, tropes, and the histories that have maintained them.
Essays to shape our thinking
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Home is the horizon
Hayley Wu (胡禧怡) responds to In the place where we left and arrived by Samuel Zhang, in which the contradictions of home and belonging underlie an autobiographical and documentary-style exploration of the queer Chinese diaspora.
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Speaking back to silence
Deborah Chu responds to Mourad Kourbaj’s striking tale of a family escaping the horrors of the Argentine dictatorship and 'La Junta Militar' in Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth.
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Golden hour fantasies
Katie Goh reponds to We Are Nature, a film by Jaha Browne & Olivia Martin McGuire with outdoor activists discussing their experiences of working with their communities to foster a sense of connection and belonging to the natural world.
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Finding sacrality in the city
Radha Patel responds to Cecilia Lim’s audiovisual poem, Pagpapa(-)alam: To Wish You Well, So You Know where, throughout the borough of Queens, New York, Women and Femmes of Colour practice reciprocity in support of their communities.
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On oil, Drexciya and building pressure
Eilidh Akilade responds to Black Gold by Ashanti Harris, a filmic poem that moves through layers of thoughts, memories, visions and histories in a stream of consciousness of movements and sounds - a Fringe of Colour 2023 Commission.
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What is left and what follows after displacement
Anahit Behrooz responds to Yuluu by Fatima Kried, which, through a beautifully stripped back animation style, looks back at the story of a young woman stranded in Beirut during the abrupt start of the 2006 war.
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