MK Fringe

26/07/2025

It’s the final weekend!!

24/07/2025

Tickets remaining for the Sensory Tour taking place this weekend!

Don’t miss out. Book now: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/mk-fringe-festival/sensory-tour/e-ykroak

23/07/2025

23/07/2025

17/07/2025

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

A group show presenting work by artists who are either from or who are connected to the city in some way.

The exhibition takes its title from the closing line of the iconic The Story of the Red Balloon advertisement, created to promote Milton Keynes as a model for a new kind of city.

Wouldn’t It Be Nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes?

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, 11 – 27 July 2025
12-4pm, Thursday – Sunday
The Old Bus Station, no wheelchair access

17/07/2025

Join artist Richard Harrison this Sunday 20 July, 4pm – 6pm for a community picnic in celebration of his work, Show Them Where To Go, installed in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes.

When: Sunday 20 July 2025, 4pm ​- 6pm
Location: Campbell Park (https://maps.app.goo.gl/TKwyXZDDXr4YhABt9)

About the work
Show Them Where To Go, installation by Richard Harrison consists of five bird boxes designed to reflect principles of automotive fabrication and aesthetics.

Free, tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/mk-fringe-festival/show-them-where-to-go-community-picnic/e-mojovk

16/07/2025

Tickets available for this weekends Henna Workshop with Nuzhat Fatima: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/mk-fringe-festival

Saturday 19 July and Sunday 20 July, 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Location: Stall 187, Milton Keynes Open Market (opposite Primark, next to H&M Home)
Free, suitable for ages 10years and over

Nuzhat Fatima is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reimagines the traditional art of mehndi (henna) through contemporary lenses. Rooted in the rich visual language of the plant, her work transcends conventional applications by fluidly moving across mediums,painting, photography, politics and fashion.

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16/07/2025

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16/07/2025

Introducing artist Signe Eliza Pook (b.1992, Bauska, Latvia); a visual artist with primary interests in installation, drawing and printmaking.

Her multi-disciplinary practice works with investigating ideas and relationships between surface and space, which central to are images, visual observations and structures of understanding visual coding that intersect with everyday living.

Wouldn’t it be nice presents work by artists who are either from or who are connected to the city in some way.

Set within the transitional space of Milton Keynes’ Grade II-listed former bus station, the exhibition mirrors the themes of change, disuse, and renewal in a city perpetually shifting.

The exhibition takes its title from the closing line of the iconic The Story of the Red Balloon advertisement, created to promote Milton Keynes as a model for a new kind of city. Wouldn’t It Be Nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes?

Wouldn’t it be nice, 11 – 27 July 2025
Opening times 12-4pm, Thursday – Sunday
The Old Bus Station, no wheelchair access

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Thanks to Culture MK and Arts Council England for supporting MK Fringe Festival 2025

15/07/2025

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

A group show, bringing together the work of 21 artists with disciplines ranging from installation and sculpture, to drawing, painting and photography as well as some audio/ visual digital works. Wouldn’t it be nice presents work by artists who are either from or who are connected to the city in some way.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice is an exhibition exploring the nuances of collaboration—pairing, communication, conversation, and the formation of connection. It considers the moment of encounter: what happens between two solid things? What emerges at the edge of one form meeting another?

This exhibition brings together a mix of established and emerging artists to examine how place influences practice.

Set within the transitional space of Milton Keynes’ Grade II-listed former bus station, the exhibition mirrors the themes of change, disuse, and renewal in a city perpetually shifting. The architecture itself—weathered and storied—serves as a living backdrop, its material traces echoing the past while housing visions of what might come next. These works inhabit the liminal, offering reflections on time passing, of a city aging.

The exhibition takes its title from the closing line of the iconic The Story of the Red Balloon advertisement, created to promote Milton Keynes as a model for a new kind of city. Wouldn’t It Be Nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes?

Wouldn’t it be nice invokes the arcadian spirit that once propelled its creation—an idealism that still lingers in its infrastructure, now half-forgotten or reimagined. It reflects the energy behind the dream of a hopeful utopia- that same energy which is still reverberating around the city's many disused buildings almost 60 years on.

FREE
Visit Thursday – Sunday until 27 July, 12pm–4pm
The Old Bus Station https://what3words.com/performs.noble.producers

Culture MK

15/07/2025