The Edinburgh Free Fringe (also known as PBH's Free Fringe, after its founder, Peter Buckley Hill) is an organisation that promotes free shows parallel to the Edinburgh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, jointly the world's largest arts festival, held every August for a full four weeks. The nature of the Free Festival is that all events are free to enter, and events are usually held in spaces off bars, clubs and restaurants (hoping to receive a spin-off effect in bar sales). Several promoters are involved, inevitably (as with the entire Festival and Fringe) in competition with one another. Other promoters of the free events include Laughing Horse, Just the Tonic and Heroes. The Free Fringe is dominated by comedy events, but also includes spoken word, music, theatre, cabaret, scien