The first annual Liftshare Festival Fringe Award has now closed for entries, but we do have one more entry for you to take a peek at before our Judges start reviewing and picking their winner! Kitten Killers, who are on all this week at the Underbelly in George Square, carshared their 9 hour journey to Edinburgh with their…

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We’re just a day away from the close date of our first Liftshare Festival Fringe Award, and we’ve got another entry spotlight for you to check out. The aim of this award was to invite comedians and performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to send in videos of themselves talking about their green views, what they do to reduce their…

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It’s the last week of our Liftshare Festival Fringe Award, but we still have some great entries from comedians and performers to share with you. If you’ve only just encountered our award, it’s essentially a new accolade we’ve opened up to acts at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which invites them to send us a video of themselves sharing their…

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is well underway, and acts from all over the city’s venues are sending in their entries for the new annual Liftshare Fringe Award, which focuses on green and sustainable travel in the capital throughout August. It’s all part of our attempts to help raise awareness of green matters in Edinburgh during this busy month. The…

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Edinburgh is a beautiful city, filled with beautiful things and in August; a whole lot of beautiful people. Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, bringing flocks of people from all over the globe to check out a dizzying number of live stand-up, theatre and musical performances. All these people, however beautiful, create a significant amount…

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The 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is well underway, and acts of all types from across the festival are entering to win the first Annual Liftshare Festival Fringe Award. This entails them using their talents – whether it be comedy, dance, acting, or poetry – to help promote sustainable travel and keeping the Scottish capital ‘green’ throughout the month. You…

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Today, Edinburgh Festival Fringe springs into action, commencing a three and half week marathon arts festival that will shift in the region of 2 million tickets. Those of you who regularly frequent our blog will have seen that Liftshare recently launched the Festival Fringe Liftshare Award aiming to use the gifts of comedy to make those 2 million ticket…

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Last week, you no doubt will have seen that Liftshare launched a brand new comedy award for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We’ve invited comedians, poets, and variety acts from the festival to tell us their views about green and sustainability issues, or do something funny to get people thinking about environmental matters. Daphna Baram is our latest entry, and she explains…

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Nick Revell’s show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is called “Feminist Porno Jihadi”. It’s an 18+ rated gig, so no kids allowed to listen to this Perrier Award nominated comedian’s satire. You’ll be able to catch Nick Revell at the Festival this year at the Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, that’s Venue 319. Where is that? That’s down…

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This week, Liftshare launched a brand new comedy award for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which invites comedians from across the world to tell us their views about green and sustainability issues, or do something funny to get people thinking about environmental matters. Why? Because last year Fringe acts sold over 2 million show tickets, and the Scottish capital…

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