Stockton | Enjoy four amazing days of world-class shows and free family entertainment at Stockton International Riverside Festival this weekend. There are loads of brilliant outdoor arts shows including The Whalley Range All Stars, The Desperate Men, Altered States, TIN Arts, Whippet Up, Frolicked, Curious Arts, Joli Vyann, Just More Productions, Matthew Harrison, Damae Dance, Circus Raj, Fully Booked, Theatre Illumiere, Yorkshire Life Aquatic, A Bird in the Hand Theatre, Bash Street Theatre, Dulce Duca, Upper Level, Gobbledegook Theatre, Miss High Leg Kick, Strong Lady Productions, Daryl & Co and Mimbre, Theatre Témoin, Artemis, Kapow Dance Circus Theatre, Urban Playground, Glass House Dance, Madame Zucchini and many more! The big finale on Sunday is ‘Mobil’ by Transe Express.
London | A whole summer season of amazing live performances and arts is underway at Kensington + Chelsea Festival, running until 31 Aug. This weekend see Julius Ceaser by Shakespeare’s Globe on tour, Circus Flavours by Upswing, and Seed by Pif-Paf.
Birmingham | TILT Festival runs until 12 Aug with high-quality teaching and performance from national and international circus artists, catering for beginners to professionals. Tomorrow don’t miss Family Day at the West Midlands Creation Centre.
Oxfordshire | At Wilderness Festival this weekend check out Autin Dance Theatre’s Out of the Deep Blue. Through dance and masterful puppeteering, Out of the Deep Blue dives into the themes of the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis in an outdoor spectacle featuring a 13-foot-tall Puppet.
Liverpool | Liverpool’s Brazilica Festival is back! Celebrate all things Brazil at this sensational summer event, with the parade tomorrow starting at Abercromby Square 7-30pm.
Leicester | Tomorrow head to the Leicester Caribbean Carnival at Victoria Park for the Opening Ceremony at 12noon, four live music stages, Carnival Day Parade, and a funfair.
Cornwall | Wildworks’ new open-air promenade production I Am Kevin, directed by Mydd Pharo and created with the communities of Cornwall, comes to Carlyon Beach from 6-20 Aug. Experience this fantastical journey discovering the light amidst the darkness and take a deep dive into the depths of your consciousness to rewrite the stories that try to define us.
Newbury | Le G. Bistaki, one of France’s most inventive performance companies, return to Newbury tomorrow with their show Bel Horizon. Bel Horizon, which alludes to both a beautiful view and a beautiful future, is a unique travelling performance across Greenham Common which will beguile and bewitch.
Nottingham | Head to Highfields Park from tomorrow until 14 Aug for the Nottingham premiere of the new Architects of Air luminarium. Dodecalis cleverly draws visitors through its labyrinthine shapes and three domes where they’ll enjoy stunning, neon-like, vibrant colours.
Reading | This Sunday celebrate the music, art and culture of South Asia at Reading Mela in Palmer Park. Enjoy performances, live singing, fun rides, free kids shows, a shopping village, and the world food corner.
Hampshire | Boomtown Fair returns 10-14 Aug, starting with a clean slate and a world of new wonders to discover in Chapter One: The Gathering. Actors and characters will flood the streets more than ever before, huge parades will weave their way through the districts with buskers and pop-up sound systems on every street corner.
London | In King’s Cross from 10-20 Aug? Be sure to catch Future Cargo, the latest outdoor show by Requardt & Rosenberg in Lewis Cubitt Square. Combining large-scale spectacle with surprising intimacy, this dance phenomenon is performed in a 40ft haulage truck under the stars. Grab some headphones and connect to the strange world.
Crawley | Aura is a 5m high puppet created by Animated Objects Theatre Company who is visiting Crawley in August as part of Aura’s Odyssey in the UK. Crawley will welcome her with open arms, sharing stories, music, dance and art with her as she travels around the town from 11-14 Aug as part of the Enliven: You’re Welcome season.
Leicester | Journeys Festival International, produced by Artreach, runs 12-14 Aug, bringing together artists and communities to explore big ideas and create experiences that will excite and entertain. Expect to see some of the best international outdoor arts including Southpaw Dance presenting Rush, Aalborg Karneval with young Danish graffiti artist Frida Still Vium and Mandinga Arts, working with Spice Queen Productions. Look out for Oakleaf Streetshow’s Liberty Angels, Pif-Paf Theatre, Stopgap Dance Company, Highly Sprung Performance Company, Strong Lady Productions, Ockham’s Razor, Talawa Theatre Company, Simple Cypher and many more.
Hounslow | Head to Hounslow High Street and Bell Square on 13 Aug for ANHAD, a new and exciting outdoor multi-arts festival of exceptional, cutting-edge contemporary work by South Asian artists based in the UK, directed by Mira Kaushik OBE. Artists include Beeja, Balbir Singh Dance Company, Anando Mukerjee, Nadia Javed, Zayn Mohammed Trio, Anvi Prabhu, Shyam Dattani, Balbir Singh Dance Company, Odissi Ensemble, Srishti, Kirti Kala Mandir and the Bollywood Dance School
Kent | Celebrate Gravesham Pride on 13 Aug with the Pride March, live entertainment, Kids Zone, Life and Wellbeing Zone, food and bar, stalls, and BYO Picnic.
Highlands | Green Space Dark Skies, led by Walk the Plank, heads to the Cairngorms National Park on 13 Jul. 20,000 people will become Lumenators, each carrying a low-impact light into the landscape, making patterns on mountains, lakes and moorland.
