The Corn Exchange Newbury’s Out of Doors festival continues this weekend. Today at Welford Park see the awesome Gandini Juggling’s Smashed2, featuring eighty oranges, seven watermelons, and nine performers! Tomorrow, try some Family Circus Skills in Victoria Park, and then on Sunday, you can see Future Cargo by Requardt & Rosenburg, as well as vintage song and dance duo the Mary-Lou Revue Cabaret.
The 15th Tunbridge Wells Mela Festival is set to return to Calverley Grounds on Sunday 12.30pm-6pm. Enjoy a fun-packed programme both on and off stage perfect for all the family. See The West Kent Keralites, Phase 5 Steel Band, Uzambezi, 4×4 Kings of Bhangra, the Paul Dunton Orchestra, and Midnight Soul Sisters. Offstage watch out for The Show Globe’s Enchanted Flower Garden.
On Saturday Certain Blacks Ensemble Festival presents an explosive mix of art and performance to the Royal Docks, 12pm-6pm. Artists include Jason Singh, Strong Lady Productions, Muntu Valdo, Abstract Benna, Simple Cypher, Emergency Arts, Joli Vyann and 2Faced Dance Company.
Young people aged 8-14 can get involved in Nature’s Secret Circus Workshops tomorrow in Achill, Mayo. They’ll be guided by an environmental scientist and two circus tutors to create acrobat shapes and movements in response to their local landscape, capturing the world around them through circus tricks.
In Eastbourne this weekend? Don’t miss Eastbourne’s Summer Sundae Weekender, with live performances including a mixture of interactive theatre, music, family-friendly comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and Human JukeBoxes! Catch Dizzy O’Dare, Enter Edem, Bootworks, Nearly There Yet, Frolicked, Smoking Apples and more.
Things are getting noisy at Hogarth’s House this weekend, as Pulp Rocket Theatre bring their family-friendly outdoor performance The Angry Musician to the Mulberry Garden, inspired by William Hogarth’s print The Enraged Musician.
For the final weekend of Swansea’s free outdoor dance festival, Taliesin goes ‘local’ as well as digital this year with Taliesin Dance Days. This weekend in Brynmill Park and Ravenhill Park see Mimbre, Just Us Dance Theatre Company, Leyton John and Splatch Arts, and f.a.b. – the detonators.
This weekend of IF: MK brings Jeanefer Jean-Charles’ Black Victorians, Requardt & Rosenberg’s Future Cargo to Milton Keynes, and you can see Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon, Anna Berry’s Breathing Room, Marco Barotti’s Woodpeckers, Kinetika’s silk flags and Yara+Divina’s Arrivals and Departures.
In Sale in Trafford, the weekend’s offerings from Waterside Arts’ Refract Festival includes Kapow, Upswing and Gravity & Levity. Next week you can see Safetycatch’s Doctor on Call from Thursday, as well as Kate Flatt’s Weather Machine and Hawk Dance Theatre’s And Then It Just Stopped at the weekend.
Join the Natural Theatre Company in Bath this weekend for Shakespeare Undone! an immersive experience that takes you on a theatrical journey around the cobbled streets of Venice* – where the best bits of Shakespeare come to life around you! (*occasionally also referred to as the City of Bath…). You can also catch the Naturals with their Shakespearian take as part of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival.
The Theatre on Kew Summer Season begins this weekend, bringing outdoor theatre to the beautiful Kew Gardens, starting tomorrow with The Wind in the Willows, and next week with A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In London, the Kensington and Chelsea Festival this weekend features outdoor work by Motionhouse (Captive). Strong Lady Productions (Strong Enough) and Candoco (A Graceful Act of Stupidity).
Head to Bexhill’s Devonshire Square and Road tomorrow for lots of Outdoor Arts fun in Streets of Bexhill 11am-3pm, including The Show Globe, Circo Rum Ba Ba, and Fair Play Comedy.
Also tomorrow, Spare Parts and Festival Oldham are bringing a fantastic lineup of live performances, artwork and participation to the town centre, with the theme of Heroes. Don’t miss Highly Sprung, Hikapee, Movema, and ThickSkin Theatre.
Head to Coventry Canal Basin tomorrow for a fun, informal afternoon of procession, storytelling and music presented by Walk the Plank and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. Creative Europe: Celebration is an outdoor performance that has been put together from scratch in a single week, from the imaginations of a group of international artists, together with local families, through the Creative Europe programme.
As always, let us know what you’re up to and have a great weekend.
