It’s the last weekend of Hull’s Freedom Festival, and there’s lots to see and do including Rider Spoke by Blast Theory, Arrivals + Departures by Yara + Davina, POWER by 2Faced Dance Company, The Visionary by Jon Hicks, League & Legend by 15ft6, and much more.
The year-long Hull Vigil continues. Every day for the year, at sunrise and sunset, a vigil keeps watch over Hull from a bespoke structure located on top of the Hull College building. On Saturday, the sunset vigil will be OAUK’s Director, Angus MacKechnie, keeping a careful eye on the city from 18:43-19:43, as the festival takes place below. If you’re there, look up…
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival continues in London this weekend. Each evening at 8.30pm the spectacular light installation Borealis will shine out echoing the awe-inspiring brilliance of the Northern Lights. Tonight and tomorrow see Future Cargo by Requardt & Rosenberg, a contemporary sci-fi dance show enhanced with 360 sound on personal headsets. Next week sees De Roovers’ production of Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills in the wastelands of Thamesmead.
Head to Canary Wharf on Saturday and Sunday for GDIF’s Dancing City. There’s the chance to see: A Doorstep Duet by New Adventures, Candoco Dance Company’s A Graceful Act of Stupidity, Bonded by Alleyne Dance, Born to Protest by Joseph Toonga, Just Us Dance Theatre, Ofir Yudilevitch’s Gravitas, LIFE by Gandini Juggling, Joli Vyann’s Lance Moi en l’Air, Mayfly by Kapow, WILD by Motionhouse, and Doubles by Joe Garbett Dance.
Coming up next in Coventry City of Culture’s programme of events is Godiva Festival 2021 this weekend, a three-day event in the city’s historic War Memorial Park, offering great live music, family entertainment, a specially commissioned Bollywood Spectacular on the Main Stage, international food and drink, craft village and children’s funfair!
Head to Royal Victoria Dock tomorrow for Music of the Spheres, a dazzling show that will see performers in huge transparent globes move through the audience and float on the water of the docks, with musicians, aerial performers, lights and smoke inside them.
For the Scottish Highlands annual celebration of literature, art, music, drama and film, check out the Nairn Book and Arts Festival, running until 12 Sep. On Saturday there’s the High Street Takeover, with live music, street art, installations, immersive theatre and spoken word.
Theatre Orchard and Culture Weston invite you to Party in the Park tomorrow in Weston-super-Mare, a free afternoon of outdoor arts, dance and music for all the family, including a stunning circus double bill presented by Crying Out Loud’s Circus Around & About. Marvel at one-woman trapeze artist Tilly Lee-Kronick and her outstanding aerial show Ripe, be amazed by Roll Up, Roll Up as Simple Cypher perform dynamic tricks within a large, spinning ‘Cyr Wheel’, then join a circus skills workshop.
Something exciting is coming to The Wilds at Barking Riverside this weekend. See Luke Jerram’s giant planet Earth installation Gaia floating in three dimensions on Saturday and Sunday.
Opera Anywhere’s Gilbert & Sullivan Festival presents 4 classics; The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Patience in one weekend at Brighton Open Air Theatre. Join Mole, Ratty, Mr Toad and Badger in Calf2Cow’s outdoor production of Wind in the Willows; this weekend sees them venture to the Holburne Museum, Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury, and Penlee Park Open Air Theatre in Penzance.
Heartbreak Productions are spanning the country with The Great Gatsby in Hampshire and Leamington Spa, and Mr Stink in Sutton Coldfield, Warrington, and Enfield this weekend. See Scoot Theatre’s outdoor, family-friendly, sixty-minute productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors this evening at Chessington Cricket Club, tomorrow at Blackheath Cricket Club, and Sunday at Farnham Cricket Club.
On Saturday there’s a fun-packed family fun day in Pemberton Town Centre with rides, stalls, and attractions for the whole family, part of Wigan Council’s Our Town LIVE.
Highest Point Festival runs this weekend in Lancaster, with The Big Family Day Out on Sunday. Join the Grand Parade of the Weird & Wonderful lead by Fat Cat Brass Band on stilts for a walk around the park, think bubbles, confetti and dancing! Plus learn new skills with Circus & Aerial Workshops, and make some noise with the Samba Drumming Workshops.
This weekend Burn the Curtain welcomes you to The Imaginarium of Us, a creative celebration of Exeter’s green spaces. Part exhibit, part performance, the ethereal ‘Curiositors’ will guide you on a magical walk through participatory exhibits, strange machines, ghostly voices and bizarre objects in Riverside Valley Park.
Looking ahead into September, be sure to get the dates in your diaries for Whirligig Festival of Outdoor Arts (10-12 Sep), Out There Festival (17-19 Sep), Kapow Festival (18 Sep), Inside Out Dorset (17-26 Sep), Derby Festé (24-25 Sep), Festival of Thrift (25-26 Sep).
As always, let us know what you’re up to and have a great weekend.
