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  • Join our DOUBLE LAUNCH PARTY: Fierce Festival 2026 x THIS IS DANCE Autumn Season

    Join our DOUBLE LAUNCH PARTY: Fierce Festival 2026 x THIS IS DANCE Autumn Season

    Thursday 23 July, 6-8pmHouse of Beorma104-106 Floodgate Street, Birmingham, B5 5SR In 3 weeks, we’ll be launching the Fierce Festival 2026 programme!  Your favourite festival’s favourite festival is back, running 14 – 18 October, bringing delicious international contemporary performance right to your doorstep. Are we bringing █████ █████’s seminal work █████ to Birmingham? Will █████…

  • Open Call: Fierce Board of Trustees

    Open Call: Fierce Board of Trustees

    We are now looking for up to three new Trustees to complement the skills and experienceof the current Board. Fierce Trustees are people who enjoy working as part of asupportive and rigorous team, who are passionate about the arts, and who believe that arthas the power to change lives. The new Trustees will work with…

  • Call for Birmingham Artists: Fierce Jams

    Call for Birmingham Artists: Fierce Jams

    Fierce Jams is a new, ongoing, and nomadic performance series that indulges in small-scale experiments in contemporary performance and live art. It is an excuse for Birmingham’s performance community to gather and to develop their practice in conversation with each other. Each edition features 4 local artists – selected through a mixture of invitations and…

  • Fierce would like to meet… a Festival Producer

    Fierce would like to meet… a Festival Producer

    We are looking for a freelance Festival Producer for Fierce Festival 2026! This is an incredible role for an experienced freelance producer to shape and lead the delivery of the longest-established live arts festival in the UK. This year’s iteration in October 2026 will bring bold new elements to the well-established and widely celebrated Fierce…

  • Fierce announce new Executive Director

    Fierce announce new Executive Director

    After a comprehensive recruitment process, Fierce are thrilled to be welcoming new Executive Director Ethan Hudson to the team beginning in September 2025. Ethan joins after Director (Operations) Catherine Groom and Director (Producing) Pippa Frith left earlier this summer to take on the roles of General Manager for Artsadmin and Executive Producer for Selina Thompson…

  • Fierce would like to meet… an Executive Director

    Fierce would like to meet… an Executive Director

    Fierce is very excited to begin the search for our Executive Director. This is an incredible role for a passionate arts leader to steer the organisation and collaborate with the Artistic Director to realise the Festival programme, to care for the artists and audiences we work with and continue to hold and embody Fierce’s values…

  • All Change

    All Change

    The magic of Fierce has always been in its agile nature. Being small, fleet of foot and flexible has always meant we can work reflexively and responsively to the ever-changing sector we sit within, allowing us to embrace change. So it is with this spirit we celebrate 2 of the Fierce leadership team, Catherine Groom…

  • It’s baaack! The Fierce Festive Gift Guide 2024

    Whatever your feelings about this upcoming season, we can probably all agree that if you’re spending your cash, better do it supporting ARTISTS than lining the already heaving pockets of SPAMAZON and the like. So without further ado, here’s what’s caught our eye of late from independent artists, makers and thinkers. Some of these are…

  • Fierce for FREE

    Fierce for FREE

    With less than 3 weeks to go until Fierce Festival 2024, tickets are flying out – we’ve already completely sold out of three shows. But even without spending a penny, there are loads of brilliant performances, workshops and gatherings that you can enjoy at this year’s edition of the festival – completely free and open…

  • Fierce new look. Same great taste.

    Fierce new look. Same great taste.

    We’re beyond excited to share that over the last couple of months – in preparation for this year’s festival – the Fierce brand has had a bit of a glow up! With the help of Monnet Design, our 2024 festival identity is here, and it’s fiercer than ever. So, what’s new? Let’s start with the…