Join us at the world-famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024!
Whether you are a parent or carer taking a show to Edinburgh, an existing PiPA Foundations or Charter Partner, part of our wider community, or maybe you've only just heard about PiPA for the first time – we would love to see you this August.
Check out our list of events to be enjoyed at the festival this year.
Sunday 11 August, 12.30 - 4pm 
PiPA at the Fringe Fair
Location: Fringe Central (Grassmarket)
If you are curious about PiPA, who we are and what we do, or would just like to meet us, come and find us at the Fringe Fair. The Fair is an opportunity for creatives to meet key organisations such as funders, agencies, training providers, membership and support organisations . Our Relationship Managers, Matt and Lindsey, will be there and would love to meet you, hear about your work, and talk about what we do at PiPA.
Sunday 11 August, 4.20pm
June Carter Cash: The Women, Her Music and Me
Location: Summerhall
PiPA's Charter Partners, National Theatre of Scotland and Grid Iron, are co-producing this production in which friend of PiPA, Charlene Boyd, explores her own relationship with her musical heroine June Carter Cash, and their shared experience as performers and working mothers. It’s bound to be a great show!
Join us for a post-show talk, discussing the experiences of being an artist and a working parent.
To book, visit National Theatre of Scotland website.
Wednesday 14 August, 10.30 - 11.30am & 11.30am - 12.30pm
PiPA's Fringe Community Day
Location: Fringe Central (Grassmarket)
Are you a parent or carer performing, directing, producing, designing, or touring at the Fringe? Come along to connect with others with similar experiences, sharing the challenges, frustrations, and joys. We want to provide a space to celebrate being a parent or carer working in theatre, dance, music, and/or opera, as well as safe environment to talk about the struggles of balancing work with caring, sharing what organisations are doing to support.
This event is open to all Fringe artists, freelancers, backstage workers, festival workers, funders, and industry professionals interested in connecting with shared experiences of being a parent or carer, and finding solutions to not only continue with your career in the arts, but to thrive.
Kids are, of course, welcome!
Thursday 15 August, 10.30 - 11.30am (with refreshments provided after the class until 12.30pm)
Workshop: Little People / Big People
Location: Dance Base, Studio 2
This class is for adults and children - together.
Treat yourself to a free workshop with dance artist, Neil Callaghan, in partnership with PiPA and Dance Base, designed for adults and children together, and join us afterwards for refreshments and space to reflect on the challenges and rewards of being a parent or carer with a career in the arts. No previous dance experience necessary!
Find a moment of artistic release during the busyness of the Fringe by gently developing your awareness of yourself and your child in relation to others. Neil brings his whole dance history and therapeutic training to these classes. The focus is on leaning into fun, so that we might leave inhabiting our bodies a little differently to when we arrived.
Book your free tickets here: www.dancebase.co.uk/classes/little-people-big-people
Get in touch with us and let us know if you are planning to come! For any questions or further enquiries email MattRoe@pipacampaign.com