The Annual Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival is just around the corner and we have a gallery of the highlights from last year and this year.

There will be an array of delights- 140 events across 65 venues- for the whole family on offer from May 5-21, from theatre and music shows to film screenings to the borough’s own Carnival.

And what can make these events even better? When you don’t have to pay! Here’s a list of some of the free events Wandsworth Arts Fringe has to offer.

Clapham Chorus & Friends

“Clapham Chorus is an ever evolving a cappella (unaccompanied) choir; singing gospel, folk, world, jazz and modern pieces.

“We sing for the joy of it, and to share beautiful vocal harmonies. We invite you to join us and to celebrate all voices.”

London Sustainability Exchange Pollinator Paths

“Join us to learn about biodiversity in your area, create urban habitat for your home, do workshops in upcycling & making bee homes.”

Louis Morel, Melody of Madness

“I'm Louis Morel. I suffer from severe sensory processing problems.

“It hurts like hell to go to any new places or see any new people, so instead I go to new places and meet new people in my head and that's where my drawings come from.”

Pump House Pavilion, Mixed messages

“Families are invited to playful experiment with how gestures, sounds and words influence our visualization and representation of objects.

“The workshop will involve games, word-play, using our bodies to communicate and lots of noises.”

Battersea Artists & Makers, BAMJam

“Just turn up with your instrument or voice and we'll find you a slot. Young performers are especially welcome.

“Battersea Artists & Makers (BAM) is an emerging artists and makers collective in South West London. This is our first event; please join us and bring your instrument, voice, family and energy.”

Deborah Burnstone video installation

“Throughout the Fringe, at St Mary’s, artist Deborah Burnstone will be screening video work made especially for the festival.

“The work explores the tidal rhythm of the river and the sights, sounds and voices of the borough.”

ActionSpace, Watch This Space

“ActionSpace artists Pardip Kapil, Nnena Kalu, Linda Bell, Mark Lawrence, Mary Ogunleye, Claudia Williams and Robin Smith take up residency, transforming an empty shop unit with their unique art works and site specific installations.”

Secret Platform Theatre, Everything Stops for Tea

“Daphne & Phyllis have just moved in. Join them for tea, biscuits & a cosy sharing of stories.

“Part real, part imaginary... Secret Platform Theatre’s intimate, immersive theatrical experience is a joyful celebration of the Great British love of tea.

“Audiences say: “It's like being led by the hand through Auntie's front room. Original...Quirky...Delightful...Fun!”

Chocolate Films, The Biggest Animation

“You will craft fabulously fantastical backdrops to bounce through space, transform into your siblings or parents, and maybe even fly with a flock of birds made by you. Pixilation is a fun and physical method of filmmaking that gives the impression of a body moving as if it is an animation.”

VINCI St Modwen (VSM) & New Covent, Garden Market, London’s Vegetable Orchestra

“Come down to Edible Avenue SW8 and learn how make your own veg-strument before joining in our celebratory musical performance along Thessaly Road with London's Vegetable Orchestra. The orchestra will be accompanied by our newly formed Battersea Veg-cellent Community Band.”

Pump House Pavilion, The New Union Flag Project

“The New Union Flag re-imagines the Union Jack, challenging imagined fixed identities and celebrating diversity. It reflects the UK’s colonial past and contemporary multicultural society.

“From 2015, thousands of people have participated in the project and now you can too.”

Puppets with Guts, Rampaging Rhinoceros- an interactive big puppet mass movement spectacle

“Come and create your very own magnificent cardboard rhino head in our Puppet Making Enclosure and be a part of the pandemonium.

“Drop-in anytime and join the biggest cardboard rhino stampede in Wandsworth at 4pm.”

OperaUpClose, Opera Pick ‘n Mix

“Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose debut in Wandsworth with the tale of a messy love-triangle, weaving together some of opera’s best loved tunes into a moving and entertaining stage show.”

Amelia Critchlow, Spectral Paradigms- Contemporary Art Exhibition

“Spectral Paradigms is a contemporary art exhibition that includes a diverse group of contemporary/new media artists working with a mixture of digital, sound, installation, video, and mixed media techniques.”

Konrad Dobschuetz, The Open Exhibition

“For the first time German self-taught artist and writer Konrad Dobschutz is going to show some of his artworks in the UK. It is an open air exhibition.”

Yvette Vanson, Disappearing Worlds

“Yvette Vanson's fifth National exhibition features paintings of places of beauty, remote and near.

“Endangered habitats, species and communities are testimony to nature's extraordinary resilience despite the devastation wrought by human recklessness.”

The Bicycle Ballet Co, Blazing Saddles

“A visually stunning and joyful, outdoor promenade dance performance & cycle-about celebrating women and cycling and fashion; a wry look at pink, evolving cultural taboos, modern women and bikes.”

Check out the full list and times here.