We can’t wait for Out There Festival in Great Yarmouth this weekend. There’s loads to see and do, with a jam-packed programme of breath-taking Outdoor Arts, quirky comedy, family-friendly shows, and seaside silliness! Featuring 15feet6 with League and Legend, Amoukanama’s Duo Limaniya, Bureau of Silly Ideas with Big Foot Michael, Duo Masawa’s V.O.G.O.T, Circo Rum Ba Ba with Box, Dizzy O’ Dare’s Falconry Dismay, Unity by Gorilla Circus, Hocus Pocus Theatre with Sideshow Roadshow, Jon Hicks’ The Visionary, Born To Protest by Joseph Toonga, If I Can’t See You by Living Room Circus, Mark Mark with Team BGee, The Lips by Puppets with Guts, Ramshaklicious with The GloryBox, D.O.C by Safety Catch Theatre, Strong Enough by Strong Lady Productions, Whalley Range All Stars with Glock & Beretta and Godzillatown, and many many more!
For a day of free art, music, dance, and workshops, look no further than Kapow Festival tomorrow at Rogue Studios, Gorton. See Kapow’s brilliant shows Adrift, Grow, and Mayfly, and catch Old Green Time Machine by Coalesce Dance Theatre. Throughout the day you can also get involved in Seedbomb Workshops with Manchester Urban Diggers, Family Dance Workshops and Art in the Yard by Heather Alderson.
Experience extraordinary events taking place across Dorset this weekend as Inside Out Dorset returns for 2021, running until 26 September. The extensive festival features Luke Jerram’s Gaia, Gobbledegook Theatre’s Geophonic, Catch Me by Upswing, Lifted by Mimbre, Seed by Pif-Paf, The Gallycrows by Angel Exit Theatre, Drake Music’s Planted Symphony, Rodadoras by Becky Namgauds, Sense of Unity by Dundu and Worldbeaters and much more!
Today marks the beginning of Lancashire Encounter in Preston City Centre, with music, theatre and exhibitions, new venues and commissions and great fun for all. Running until 2 October, see performances including Routes by Theatre Témoin, On Edge by Justice in Motion, D.O.C by Safety Catch Theatre, and Out of the Deep Blue by Autin Dance Theatre.
In Coventry this weekend? Experience Theatre of Wandering, a new production co-created and inspired by Coventry residents, with OiBokkeShi and Entelechy Arts. This walk-about theatrical experience through Coventry City Centre blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, exploring the different ways in which people experience and live with dementia.
Feeling a bit fancy? Dig out your frocks and suits and head to Henley Festival this weekend, the exclusive boutique black-tie festival celebrating the best of UK and International music and arts. Don’t miss Family Sunday, featuring The Open Air Drawing Room, Creature Feature The Gorillas, Rubbish Shakespeare Company, Pang On, and Carlos Airhead.
Nestled in the Holme Valley, surrounded by the glorious Pennine Hills of West Yorkshire, Holmfirth Arts Festival runs this weekend. Catch The Whale by Circo Rum Ba Ba, Kit & Kaboodle by Thingumajig Theatre, Urban Astronaut by Highly Sprung, Garden of Delights by Urban Angels Circus, and much more!
Join Worthing Theatres and Museum in celebrating Worthing Pride with Miss High Leg Kick and her team of live artists tomorrow on the Pavilion Promenade. Learn some classic dance moves, make your own fabulous plumage headdress at the museum, and celebrate the ‘freedom to dance’ of the early UK rave scene. Part of WTM’s Spin-Out Summer Season of free shows.
Carnival is back in Eastbourne this weekend! With the theme Fun and Games, be dazzled by the Eastbourne Sunshine Carnival tomorrow at 2pm from Western Lawns to Princes Park. It’s a weekend of Carnivals, as Long Eaton Carnival also returns tomorrow with the Grand Parade through town, and activities throughout the weekend on the West Park Showground.
Take a walk into nature and tune into the stories the landscape holds, in Murmurations this weekend at National Trust Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, and next weekend at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen Nature Reserve. A headphone promenade show created by Steve Water and Tangled Feet, Murmurations explores what we need from nature and what nature needs from us in a world recovering from sickness, through live scenes and songs, poetry and physical theatre, comedy and tragedy.
Visit The Ogham Grove this weekend in Writers’ Square, a vast structural, lighting and sound show featuring two monumental sculptures with themes drawn from Ireland’s ancestral heritage and culture, presented by Culture Night Belfast. Vision Redbridge and Circulate London bring Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon to the beautiful grounds of Valentines Mansion across the weekend. Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface.
HowTheLightGetsIn London 2021 festival returns to the glorious grounds of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath this weekend. Take part in the world’s largest festival of philosophy and music, with over 100 events bringing together the world’s leading thinkers, comedians, musicians, performers, and artists.
Head to Brighton Open Air Theatre this weekend for Quandary Collective’s Richard II , and Legends of Swing with Down For The Count Swing Orchestra. Join The HandleBards all-female troupe at The Church Field in Witley and The Phoenix Theatre and Arts Centre this weekend for their bicycle-powered, farcical production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Three Inch Fools are visiting Hardwick Hall, RSPB Dearne Valley, and Great Barn Festival at Great Coxwell Barn this weekend with their productions of Robin Hood and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Catch Bash Street Theatre’s The Cameraman at Five Islands Academy, St Mary’s and Sea Garden Lawn, Tresco this weekend.
It’s the last weekend of Saltaire Festival, featuring the Continental Market and Fair, street theatre, live music, Picnic in the Park, and lots more. Two weeks of live music, art workshops and outdoor events are in full swing for Bicester Festival. This year’s theme of Sea Change/See Change reflects on all the big environmental and social changes being witnessed today and how we express that shared experience.
Tomorrow is Wigan Community Day, part of Wigan Council’s Our Town LIVE events, bringing entertainment and activities for all the family to the town centre. New Mills Festival continues this weekend with the return of the Festival Art Trail, which will see over a hundred and fifty artists from across the UK and abroad displaying their work across the town until 26 Sep.
Visit Delights of the Garden in Eastbourne this weekend, a unique opportunity to explore the seven allotments managed by Gather Collective and discover the art trail with a range of works from members of Compass Community Arts, children from Blackberry Buzzard, Amberstone Artists and individual artists. Works include painting, drawing, prints, sculpture and temporary interventions inspired by the allotments and the natural environment.
