Here’s our weekely round-up of some of the outdoor arts activity taking place this weekend. Hope you get out and about and stay safe.
Head down to Tile Hill in Coventry tomorrow for Party on the Green, a free neighbourhood celebration by Coventry UK City of Culture for all the family, featuring a dazzling performance from Cirque Bijou, as well as walkabout performances including blue mime artists and Coventry-based Talking Birds.
On Saturday there’s a sheep herding show like no other in the grounds at Salisbury Arts Centre. See Flock by Swish Boing (the artists formally known as Mufti Games) at 11am, 1pm & 3pm and help Patch the Sheepdog and his diligent Shepherd claim the winning trophy.
The Little Big Festival in Ashburton is tomorrow – this new family-friendly event combines the very best of an arts festival with the eccentricity of an English country fayre. Enjoy music, film, circus, literature, art, workshops for adults and children, and talks that range from guitars to gardening.
Tiny Wild Fox presents Seed and Stories with Fairy Peaseblossom this weekend at Fellfoot, Windermere, part of A Summer of Stories. Fairy Peaseblossom’s Garden Party will lead you to the Theatre Lawn where you will watch Pif Paf Theatre’s Seed, and then finish your session with Gary “Gacko” Bridgens for some Garden Stories.
A week of exciting events and activities for all the family begins this weekend at Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Week! Don’t miss the torchlight procession tomorrow, Tano Taiko Drummers, The Great Lyme Regis Mural, live music, and more.
The Corn Exchange Newbury’s Out of Doors Festival continues this weekend. This afternoon Morgan & West present a fun-for all-the-family retelling of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, and on Sunday Motionhouse present the daring dance-circus production WILD at Shaw House.
Leicester Caribbean Carnival 2021 returns tomorrow with a virtual online carnival day coming to you via YouTube. There’s a jam-packed schedule with activities online from 11am until 9:30pm, including the Official Opening Ceremony and Carnival Day Parade, live performances by Leicester based artists, dancers, and acrobats, and interviews, discussions, and music with Leicester’s very own Contrast Steel Band and Sambando.
Bridge has appeared at ‘The Rezzy’ in Liverpool this weekend and is the setting for a programme of free pop-up events and happenings, ending in an exhilarating live performance tonight and tomorrow, produced by Imagineer Productions.
Over in Ireland, a month of Spraoi arts and entertainment began this week with A Summer Spraoi. This weekend there are performers in the city for City Spraoi, including Baubo Company’s Cabinet of Curatrocities, Lifted by Mimbre, Cikada Circus, Damae Dance’s IRMA-Sister, Inverted Theatre’s Box, A Handful of Dreams by Fidget Feet, and more!
Scoot Theatre began their 2021 Summer Tour yesterday featuring outdoor, family-friendly, sixty-minute productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors. Catch them this evening at Esher Cricket Club, tomorrow at The Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, and on Sunday at Leatherhead Cricket Club.
Wigan’s Our Town LIVE continues with events in Shevington and Tyldesley this weekend. Take all the family along for a day of entertainment, activities, fairground amusements, live music, and street performers.
Southpaw Dance Company’s REACH is being performed at 3 metro stations this week, catch it today at Haymarket Metro Station in Newcastle at 2pm, 4pm & 6pm. Through the medium of dance, REACH brings home a sense of reconnecting and of hope through adversity after the pandemic.
For an exciting day of stilt walkers, samba, steel pan, a giant elephant and bhangra dancing, head to Memorial Gardens, Queens Square and the High Street for the first-ever Crawley Fusion Street Festival tomorrow 11am-2.30pm, produced by Cohesion Plus.
You can visit Gaia by Luke Jerram this weekend in Ulverston as part of Late Summer at The Coro, which also includes Enter Edem, MEarth MOthers and C-O-N-T-A-C-T.
Royal Leamington Spa’s Art in the Park Festival runs this weekend, with performance, music, and workshops across Sat and Sun. There are loads of Outdoor Arts to see including Heartbreak Productions with Mr Stink by David Walliams, Captive by Motionhouse, Frock by Stopgap Dance Company, Topiary Trauma by Kitsch & Sync, Vamos Theatre’s Crimplene Crusaders and the High Voltage Stilt Walkers.
See Strong Lady Productions outside the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing on the promenade tomorrow with the brilliant show Strong Enough, a powerful celebration of finding strength in unexpected places, part of the Spin-Out Summer Season of free shows. Charmaine gets about… you can also see Strong Enough on Sunday outside the New Wolsey Theatre in Ispwich.
Explore a magical trail through the beautiful woods, flora, fauna, and lakes of Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens this weekend, with music, theatrical performance, and spectacular visual and sound installations, all part of Magnetic Events’ Enchanted Leonardslee, with Murmuration Arts and Puppets with Guts.
The weekend’s offerings from Kensington + Chelsea Festival are BONDED by Alleyne Dance and The Whale – Plastic Ocean by Circo Rum Ba Ba.
Join Gobbledegook Theatre at the Dorset Museum on Sunday for Cloudscapes, a duologue for performers and clouds in an outdoor auditorium – a cloud-gazing area. Whilst a performer tells stories of her relationship with the troposphere, audiences are encouraged to look up and contemplate the mutability of clouds, as well as the mutability of humanity.
As always, let us know what you’re up to and have a great weekend.
