10:58 Mar 13, 2009 

Of course they are referring to events outside both the physical site of the Expo and the Expo itself. We call them "manifestazioni di contorno" hence the proposals for "fringe". I would take it less literally and call them off-site events, which would cover nicely the meanings, just as you said yourself.

09:15 Mar 13, 2009 

Yeah, I know about "Fuori Salone", but I wasn't convinced that they were making a specific reference to it here, if only becasue the term was not given with capitals (thouth to be sure a lot of documents I translate use capitals, and then don't use them, in a very haphazard and arbitrary way).