Join Motionhouse in Centenary Square in Birmingham this weekend for Wondrous Stories, a spectacular open-air show to kick off the Birmingham 2022 Festival. Featuring Motionhouse’s internationally renowned professional dance-circus company alongside a mass cast of hundreds from Critical Mass, Freewheelin Dance Company, Motionhouse Youth, Sampad and DanceXchange, expect large-scale immersive action and plenty of thrills as stories, a giant book and characters tumble out of the night sky!
Different Light, SKDC and Bourne Town Council present Bourne in Lights 2022, a mini Light Night event in and around North Street in Bourne tomorrow from 6pm-9pm. Installations will include the Marvellous Mechanical Musical Machine, interactive Digital Graffiti, the Shadow Stage, and a special illuminated installation made by local school children and artist Helen Graham, plus the always brilliant Illumaphonium.
On 23 Mar Hikapee & Huldufugl bring The Hidden People to Ffwrnes Llanelli, an exciting new show that combines Icelandic folklore, circus, aerial arts, performance and creative technology, to tell the story of a female architect who’s faced with the controversial task of building a hydroelectric dam in the Icelandic highlands.
Join Freedom Festival in Hull City Centre this weekend for The Awakening, an exciting new event celebrating the movement from Winter to Spring, Hull’s maritime identity, heritage, folklore and mythology, and our relationship to the environment. Stroll through the Fire Garden by Out There Arts in Queen’s Gardens, stop at the Rose Bowl to marvel at Dan Acher’s Borealis, experience Halo by Illumaphonium in Zebedee’s Yard, and much more!
FarGo Village presents Spring Up Festival, a weekend of magical outdoor theatre, music & poetry from 26-27 Mar in Coventry. Look forward to performances from locally and nationally renowned theatre companies, and workshops for all the family to get stuck into. See The Hare & The Moon by The Fabularium, Around the World in 80 Days by Rogue Play Theatre, The Whale by Talking Birds, The Ugly Bugs Wingding by Enter Edem, Bee-ology by Bumble Movement Arts, and The Wild Man of the Wood by Barry Patterson.
About Us, one of the ten UNBOXED projects, kicked off on 28 Feb, created by 59 Productions, The Poetry Society and Stemettes. About Us is a free open-air spectacular event using cutting-edge projection mapping, animation, music and poetry to celebrate our extraordinary connections to everything around us: past, present and future, and will visit Derry-Londonderry on 15-21 Mar, Caernarfon on 30 Mar-5 Apr, Luton on 14-12 Apr, and Hull from 30 Apr-6 May.
Join Wonder Arts in Earlestown on 19 Mar and St Helens Town Centre on 26 Mar for Wonderfest, a whole day of fun, creativity, inspiration and wonder for all the family. On 20 Mar see STRUT by MHz in Seedhill (Paisley), a night time outdoor performance and mobile projection parade featuring 5 local dance heroes who will perform in their own personal dance styles of Northern Soul, Hip Hop, Afro house and Contemporary.
London Remixed Festival returns 25-26 Mar with performances from over 25 cutting edge bands and DJs across five stages over two days, all in one vibrant venue in the heart of Shoreditch. The festival is a celebration of the best emerging musical talent and genres and will offer creativity, fun and madness, a buzzing atmosphere and music.
In Harrogate on 24-26 Mar be sure to check out the Fire & Light Experience, a trail of discovery that reimagines the natural world around us. Harrogate as a destination famed for it’s water will bring all the elements of nature alive; earth, air, water and fire in a spectacle of brilliance and blaze. Streets across Coventry and Warwickshire are once again lighting up their front windows and gardens to become beautiful night-time walking trails for Window Wanderland 2022, running until 25 Mar.
Spilsby Light Night will return to light up the streets of Spilsby on 26 Mar, with a range of projections, illuminations, performances, and things to do. Lumo Workshop will be creating more than 100 Houses of Light with local school children which will be displayed in St James churchyard, the Invisible Man will be wandering the streets, together with characters from the Earth Bound Misfits, Artizani will be bringing their amazing illuminated Bees, and Casson & Friends will be performing Preppers inside the Franklin Hall.
In Spain, Mostra Igualada runs 31 Mar- 3 Apr, a great showcase for the best shows for children and young audiences, which annually brings together around 30,000 spectators and more than 1,000 professionals to Igualada. In Worcester take all the family along to Atmosphere, a new outdoor Spring festival inspired by our environment and the natural world, taking place 9 & 10 Apr. Immerse yourself in a two-day programme of live performances, workshops, talks and activities designed to delight, inspire and captivate all ages, at Cathedral Square and Worcester Woods Country Park.
Brighton Open Air Theatre is back with a bumper 6-month summer season, kicking off on 8 Apr. There’s something for everyone with stand-up comedy, drag, music, family favourites, hard-hitting drama, laugh-out-loud comedies, improvisation, opera, dance, and a healthy dose of Shakespeare. On 22 Apr Autin Dance Theatre presents Out of the Deep Blue, on 1 Jun see The Gunpowder Plot by Three Inch Fools, Oddsocks Productions presents Hamlet (The Comedy) from 9-11 Jun, and much much more!
