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Bedfringe Clanger – the best of this year’s festival

Roll up, roll up, the 19th Bedford Festival Fringe (Bedfringe to its friends) is back, with over 100 fabulous events at The Quarry Theatre and Place Theatre for your entertainment and enjoyment...
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The Bedford Clanger at 15: Celebrating a decade and a half of local art, culture, shopping and more

Back in May 2011, if you’d told me the magazine we were about to launch would still be going strong 15 years later, I would have laughed you out of the room. But here we are, celebrating the...
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The Quarry Theatre is the location for much of the Bedfringe programme. It is pictured with lots of bright pink Bedringe posters on its railings.

Welcome to Bedfringe 2025, back for its 18th year

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Raising the Profile of the Town (Team) The John Bunyan Boat crew with James Pharaoh of The Quarry Theatre (l)

Tell us which Everyday Heroes raise the profile of Bedford Borough

Nominations are now open for the Bedford Independent Everyday Heroes Awards 2024, in partnership with The Harpur Trust, celebrating the people who make Bedford Borough a better place to live, work, and thrive...
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The Quarry is host to a record-breaking number of shows during this year's Bedfringe festival. Image: Bedfringe

Bedfringe is back, bringing 150 events to Bedford over 11 days

This July, the Quarry Theatre will host the 17th International Bedford Festival Fringe, bringing a record-breaking 150 events to the town over 11 days. From Thursday 18 until Sunday 28 July the theatre will be a...
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Kapow Everyday Heroes Awards

Everyday Heroes Awards: Who is helping Bedford punch above its weight?

The nominations for this year's Bedford Independent Everyday Heroes Award, in partnership with The Harpur Trust, are in full swing, helping you to recognise people who have made a difference...
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Bedfringe 2023: Over 140 events in Bedford over 11 days

This month, the Quarry Theatre will host the 16th International Bedford Festival Fringe, bringing over 140 events - old and new - to the town. From Thursday 20 until Sunday 30 July a carefully selected...
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Laura Pottinger

Bedford’s creative community pays tribute to Laura Pottinger

The creative community in Bedford has paid tribute to Laura Pottinger who tragically lost her life at Kemspton Weir on Sunday, 16 April, alongside her great friend, Sarah Waller...
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Raising the Profile of the Town winner Gareth Barber with James Pharaoh from The Quarry Theatre at St Lukes

Everyday Heroes Awards 2022: Nominate someone who helps raise the profile of the town

Now in its third year, the Bedford Independent Everyday Heroes Award, in partnership with The Harpur Trust, recognise people who have made a difference to our Borough...
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Exteriour shot of the Quarry Theatre in Bedford. Image: Bedford School

“I thought it was a hoax” says Bedfringe founder on news of his MBE

The founder of Bedford's annual fringe festival has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List - but thought he'd been pranked when he first received...
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