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Tag: JON Morgan

Fringe rebuilding begins with search for new chief

THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe will today finally begin moves to hire a new head as part of a massive shake-up of the way the event is run. An international recruitment drive for the first chief executive in the event’s 62-year history has been unveiled – five months after the festival was taken to the brink [...]

January 12, 2009 | 0 Comments More
£250,000 bail-out to avert Festival Fringe collapse

£250,000 bail-out to avert Festival Fringe collapse

THE Festival Fringe is to receive an emergency bail-out of £250,000 of public money to avoid slipping into administration. Edinburgh city council, the Scottish Government and Scottish Arts Council have agreed to step in to rescue the world’s biggest arts festival after it was brought to the brink of collapse by a series of box-office [...]

December 12, 2008 | 0 Comments More