There’s a busy Outdoor Arts weekend ahead! Here’s your roundup of some exciting things going on. Enjoy…
Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2021 starts today, running until 11 July. This year WAF returns with a hybrid arts festival, presenting both digital and live events. If you’re out and about in Wandsworth park, get involved in The Great Pebble Dash. Visual clues will be posted at 8am each day on Facebook.
Basingstoke Festival also starts this weekend! A jam-packed programme of free outdoor performances and events throughout Basingstoke town centre and beyond into the borough returns today, running until 11 July.
Tmesis Theatre’s international physical theatre festival, Physical Fest also starts today! Celebrating exciting new contemporary physical theatre, supporting emerging and female artists, and including Tmesis Theatre’s own site-specific piece, Memoria, Physical Fest runs until 2 July.
The Puddings and Pathways Festival continues this weekend in Rye. To celebrate the regeneration of the 31 mile 1066 Country Walk from Pevensey to Rye, 18 Hours have launched the Puddings and Pathways Festival, luring peckish walkers to eateries along the path, with specially created 1066 puddings and fabulous free street theatre. Tomorrow see Circo Rum BaBa with The Whizzer Chefs, Fair Play with Fairly Fresh Fish Co, and Swank with Pearl and Deanie.
Tomorrow take part in A Life in a Day: Bridge Takeover in Halton! As part of Halton’s Year of Culture celebrations and in partnership with ArtReach, Walk the Plank are inviting people to make the crossing across Jubilee Bridge with friends, family or as part of a group, to celebrate sixty years of connection across the Mersey.
In London tomorrow? Pop along to Bell Square in Hounslow to see TRIBE//’s new outdoor work for four female dancers, RISE. A bold, punchy dance inspired by Maya Angelou’s famous poem Still I Rise.
Kinetika’s epic journey to discover the hidden gems of the East Coast of England, Beach of Dreams, begins this weekend. An installation of 500 pennants will mark the beginning of the walk on Sunday at sunrise on the beach at Lowestoft, during the First Light Summer Solstice. The route then follows the coast, taking in stunning scenery, wild landscapes and seaside towns. Installations and events will be taking place along the way including Harwich Festival on 10 July and the finale at Tilbury Fort on 1 Aug.
If you’re in Manchester this weekend be sure to take the family along to Geronimo Festival in Heaton Park! A fun-packed family festival with stage shows, arena demonstrations, live music on the main stage, craft marquees, monster truck shows, a funfair and the world’s biggest bouncy castle!
Here’s another one for all the family- this weekend at the Piece Hall in Halifax is the Summer Daze Weekend, a jam-packed weekend of outdoor family entertainment, with street theatre, slapstick comedy, and circus. Don’t miss Artizani, Madame Zucchini, Curious Cargo, Frolicked, Skylight Circus, Manyard Flip Flap and Mike Hancock.
Bath Fringe Festival’s Bedlam Fair also runs this weekend! Highlights include Bureau of Silly Ideas and Mufti Games.
On Sunday head to Shaw House in Newbury for Black Victorians by Jeanefer Jean-Charles. Inspired by nineteenth century studio photographs of black men, women and children, Black Victorians explores a complex, but often forgotten, black presence in pre-Windrush Britain.
As always, let us know what you’re up to and have a great weekend.
