Scarborough will have a fringe festival this summer.
The new Fringe Festival in June will bring "contemporary art and entertainment" to the Yorkshire Coast.
The festival is part of the wider Scarborough Fair initiative which aims to deliver year round events in the town, the first of which, December's Scarborough Lights event saw 300,000 people visit the resort according to the festival director..
Julian Caddy says the Scarborough lights festival in December was visited by both local people and out of area visitors.
The Light Festival saw 15 events take place across the town including a drone display at Scarborough Castle and a winter lights trail in Peasholm park.
The Light Festival was the first event as part of the Scarborough Fair cultural initiative, which is being funded by £1.2 million from the Government’s Towns Fund programme.
The fair, which was last held in the 18th century, is being revived as a year-round programme of arts, heritage, music and sports events and is expected to run until 2026.
The overarching strategy of the Scarborough Fair project is to bring significant economic benefits to the coast with better quality jobs and training as well as involving communities to help tackle social deprivation.
It is also hoped that the events will help create a year-round visitor economy for the county, which is a major ambition of North Yorkshire Council.
As part of the Fair programme festival director, Julian Caddy, says that Scarborough is to have a Fringe festival this summer which will be part of a wider programme of activity starting in May.
Established under Royal Charter in 1253, the original Scarborough Fair drew merchants from as far away as the Ottoman Empire to ‘sell goods of true worth’ to hundreds of visitors each August and September. The fair survived for 430 years, taking place for the last time in 1788.
Over 230 years later, The Scarborough Fair is set to return, reimagined as a year-round programme of distinctive arts, heritage and sporting events at venues across the town. Made possible with investment from the UK government’s Town Centre Fund, The Scarborough Fair is a project of North Yorkshire Council, working in partnership with the public and private sectors and initiated following extensive consultation with local residents, businesses and community organisations.
The Scarborough Fair has six strategic ambitions:
- To use cultural activity to maximise on and lend narrative to Scarborough’s rich and impressive heritage and to ensure the area is seen as a contemporary, year-round destination.
- To address social exclusion and enhance opportunities for people who are disadvantaged and to improve prospects for our areas of multiple deprivation.
- To contribute towards economic regeneration and targeted sector support for the creative and cultural industries including art, design, film, retail, tourism and hospitality.
- To contribute to the levelling up agenda by enhancing employment opportunities, increasing community pride and engaging with people through creative learning programmes.
- To use Scarborough’s cultural capital to refresh the town’s image, attract more skilled people to its workforce, promote inward investment and improve ecological sustainability.
- To incorporate every aspect of culture and provide a space for music, visual art, performance, sport and food to take centre stage and promote the best that Scarborough has to offer.
There is more information at https://scarboroughfair.uk/
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