South London | 20 – 25 Mar | Lust, Lies and Live Music – Dangerous Games is an immersive theatre show inspired by the scandalous classic Dangerous Liaisons. Join the punk band ‘The Maze’ for a secret gig that bursts out onto the streets and takes audiences to places they don’t normally get to be after dark.
Dagenham | 23 – 25 Mar | Challenge your friends and family in four different fun-filled activities at Light Games. See the retro-inspired games fill the grounds of Valence House with colour, light and the sounds of laughter and fun. Completely FREE.
Slough | 24 Mar | Book FREE tickets for Follow Me – parkour and playful acrobatics transforming public squares and open spaces into stages. Shops and town squares provide the scenery while you, the audience, will also need to play your part as you follow this incredible performance through the town.
Staffordshire | 25 Mar | Experience Harecastle Tunnel coming to life as the backdrop of Down The Rabbit Hole, a magical sound and light projection. Illuminos has worked with students from The Kings Church of England Academy to create this stunning projection for Kidsgrove.
Brighton and Hove | 25 Mar | Tarner Glow Festival is a community festival afternoon based on the theme of glow/light/fire – the end of winter ‘coming into the light out of the dark’. Led by children & young people working with local artists to showcase their work.
Belfast | 25 Mar | Belfast Equinox is an immersive, cross-cultural storytelling experience developed with citizens from across the city to celebrate age-old mythology surrounding the Spring Equinox. Join the journey to celebrate mythology and tales from around the world re-told through music, dance, procession, lighting and fire.
Longton | 26 Mar | Longton Carnival & Pig Walk Parade will start from the Longton Exchange, expect a riot of flowers, music and dance to Longton town centre. The day will feature an artisan market, music and dance performances, fairground rides and street food, along with the amazing Pig Walk Parade!
Weymouth | 29 Mar – 2 Apr | Lust, Lies and Live Music – Dangerous Games is an immersive theatre show inspired by the scandalous classic Dangerous Liaisons. Join the punk band ‘The Maze’ for a secret gig that bursts out onto the streets and takes audiences to places they don’t normally get to be after dark.
London | 29 Mar & 2 Apr | Amal Returns to London – the 3.5m puppet of a refugee Syrian child who is recognised globally as a symbol of human rights returns to London for a festival of welcome, celebration and friendship.
- 29 Mar Amal Returns to London (City of London) Major businesses join Amal and Choose Love for a day to raise urgently needed funds for displaced children across the world.
- 2 Apr Amal Returns to London (Camden) As Easter, Passover and Ramadan coincide, Amal leads an interfaith celebration with London Borough of Camden, JW3, Ramadan Tent Project and Dishoom.
Spain | 30 Mar – 2 Apr | Mostra Igualada is the landmark festival for performing arts for all audiences in Catalonia. The event is a great gathering of the best performances for children and young people, offers a space for meeting, exchanging information and making contacts between the different agents operating in the sector of performing arts for all audiences.
Barking | 1 – 2 Apr | Book FREE tickets for Follow Me – parkour and playful acrobatics transforming public squares and open spaces into stages. Shops and town squares provide the scenery while you, the audience, will also need to play your part as you follow this incredible performance through the town.
Todmorden | 1 – 30 Apr | IOU’s Two Rivers sculptural sound installation will be exhibited at 9a Projects, Robinwood Mill, Todmorden. The installation fuses woodcuts, sculpture, technology, spoken word, and sound art to explore themes of evolution, heritage, legacy – the circle of life, the passage of time, the cycles of nature.
Portreath | 5 – 15 Apr | Wild Spring Hare has a brand-new adventure called Wild Awake: pass through the bluebell woodland; into a story world of wonder as the wild awakes. You are invited along a path of wild magick and awakening beauty, as the story world weaves around you and leads to the heart of the woods.
Rotheram | 5 – 7 Apr | UPLIFT: Rotherham Skate & Art Festival returns to Rotherham for its second year, transforming the town centre into an urban playground. Offering 3 days packed with activities including skateboarding, BMX, demos, roller-skating, live music, art, dance, The Teenage Market, workshops, and street-food; come along and explore this amazing free event!
Belgium | 7 – 9 Apr | ‘The City of Wings Ypres’ is an international promotion festival for street arts: circus, theatre, music, dance, puppet theatre, installations, fire etc. Belgian and foreign artists (both professionals, semi-professionals and amateurs) promote new shows to organisers & promoters – and it’s free and accessible to all other spectators!
Australia | 7 – 10 Apr | Fremantle bursts to life during Fremantle International Street Arts Festival as performers transform the city into a world stage. The streets of Fremantle become an open-air theatre of the amazing, weird and wacky, while Fremantle’s famous alfresco dining steps up a notch, with pop-up bars and eateries extending into the streets.
Touring | 12 Feb – 30 Sep | Out of the Deep Blue is a mid-scale outdoor performance featuring a 13-foot Sea Giant Puppet and a contemporary dancer, inspired by the themes of the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis.
Touring | 18 Mar – 7 May | Mosey on down to Adrenalism’s free outdoor performances of The Good, The Bad and The Poultry, fit for the whole family – no fowl language here! Touring around Scotland
Touring | 6 Apr – 1 Oct | Gifford Circus are touring this summer with their most lavish show yet! With romance at its heart, the show’s narrative will provide a playful context for some of the most intriguing, exciting and beautiful acts ever to appear at Giffords.
