Looking back to plan ahead…

Here is our festival round-up for all of our 2023 listings. This is designed to be a tool to help our members look ahead and see where to approach, remind themselves of previous events and start planning next year. If we have missed something, please let us know…

JAN
Jan 13–Jan 29 Bread & Circus, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jan 18–Jan 28 Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival, London
Jan 19-Mar 5 Light Festival at Battersea Power Station, London
Jan 27–Jan 28 Gravesend Winter Lights Festival, Gravesend
Jan 27–Feb 19 Spectacle of Light- Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
Jan 28 Bexhill After Dark, Bexhill
FEB
Feb 3–Feb 26 Spectacle of Light- Haughley Park, Suffolk
Feb 3-Feb 12 Bristol Light Festival
Feb 8 UEL: After Dark, University Of East London
Feb 10–Feb 11 Medway Light Nights 2023, Chatham
Feb 10–Mar 5 Spectacle of Light- Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Feb 18 Illuminate Oldham, Oldham
Feb 22–Feb 23 Light Night Worcester, Worcester

 

MAR
Mar 3-Mar 4 STRTFSTVL Showcase 2023, Netherlands
Mar 10-Mar 13 WOMADelaide, Australia
Mar 11 Streets of Hailsham, Hailsham
Mar 12 St Patrick’s Festival, London
Mar 16-Mar 19 St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Mar 17-Mar 18 The Awakening (Freedom Festival), Hull
Mar 18 Streets of Uckfield, Uckfield
Mar 18 Imagine Bamboo at Keele University (Appetite), Keele
Mar 18 The Mash Up High Street Happening, Lincoln
Mar 19 Sharrow Lantern Carnival, Sheffield
Mar 25 Down The Rabbit Hole, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire
Mar 25 Tarner Glow Festival, Brighton and Hove
Mar 30-Apr 2 Mostra Igualada, Spain
APR
Apr 5-7 UPLIFT: Rotherham Skate & Art Festival, Rotherham
Apr 7-Apr 9 City of Wings/De Gevleugelde Stad Ieper, Ypres
Apr 7-10 Fremantle International Street Arts Festival, Australia
Apr 8 Wor Seahorse Spectacle Parade, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Apr 8-Apr 15 Newcastle Puppetry Festival, Newcastle
Apr 11-13 Gloworm Festival, Thoresby Park
Apr 13-16 The Circus Village Festival (NoFit State Circus), Swansea
Apr 22-23 Sandbach Transport Festival, Sandbach
Apr 28-May 1 Thrive Festival, Dartington
Apr 29-30 Stepping Out Festival, Bideford, East-The-Water, Northam Burrows
Apr 29-May 1 Festival of Fools, Belfast
Apr 29-30 Taste:BD, Bradford
MAY
May 1-8 Good Grief, Weston-super-Mare
May 1-14 Eurofest, Liverpool
May 4-7 Circaire, Mallorca, Spain
May 5-7 La Fira de Titelles: Puppet Fair, Lleida, Spain
May 6-28 Brighton Festival, Brighton
May 10-14 Les 3 éléphants, Laval, France
May 11-15 Fira Trapezi, Reus
May 11-Sep 11 At the Docks, Royal Docks, London
May 12-28 Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norfolk
May 13-Jun 4 Weekends of Wonder (Invisible Circus), Bristol
May 18-21 The Leioa Street Artists Fair, Leioa, Spain
May 18-21 Umore Azoka Leioa: Street Arts Festival, Spain
May 19-21 Peterborough Celebrates Festival, Nene Park, Peterborough
May-Nov Bell Square programme, Hounslow
May 24-28 Valladolid Festival, Spain
May 25-28 Imaginarius Festival, Portugal
May 26-29 Geronimo Festival, Northwich
May 26- Jun 11 Bath Fringe Festival, Bath
May 26-28 Our Future Starts Here, Grimsby
May 26-28 Whitley Bay Carnival, Whitley Bay
May 26-Jul 2 Street Art Fest, Grenoble Alpes, France
May 27 Altered Streets – The Big Book Bonanza, Derby
May 27-28 Weekend Without Walls, Brighton
May 27-28 International Street Festival, Devizes
May 28 Luton International Festival, Luton
May 30-Jun 4 La Fête du Cirque, Château de Gromesnil, France
May 31 ABC Art & Biodiversity Festival, Newcastle

 

JUN
Jun 1 – Sep 1 Summer in the City, London Bridge
Jun 2-4 Green Hustle 2023, Nottingham
Jun 3-4 Riverside Festival, Leicester
Jun 4 Cardiff Mela, Roald Dahl Pass, Cardiff Bay
Jun 4 Eid Community Mela (Cohesion Plus), Gravesend
Jun 4 Radstock Fayre (Natural Theatre Company), Bath
Jun 5-10 Chap’erlipopette Festival, Haute-Loire, France
Jun 6-11 Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham
Jun 7-11 Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow
Jun 8-11 Eden Festival, Lockerbie
Jun 8-11 MOMI – International Physical Theater Festival, Faro, Portugal
Jun 8-11 Circada, Seville, Spain
Jun 9-25 Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Wandsworth
Jun 10 WOW Rotherham, Rotherham
Jun 10 Warton Carnival, Warton
Jun 10 Unwrapped Festival, Eastleigh
Jun 10 The Big Green Get Together, Thornton
Jun 10 Sorcas Circus Village, Achill Island
Jun 10 Northampton Carnival, Northampton
Jun 10 Festival of Chichester, Chichester
Jun 11 Farm Yard Circus, Salisbury International Arts Festival
Jun 12 Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork
Jun 16 SO Festival, Mablethorpe & Skegness
Jun 16 Summer Sessions Skate Jam & Urban Playground Team, Greenwich Park
Jun 16 Ashbourne Festival, Derbyshire Dales
Jun 17 Preston City Mela, Moor Park, Preston
Jun 17 Astley’s Homecoming (Appetite), Newcastle-under-Lyme
Jun 17 Get Creative Outdoors (The Velcro Collective), Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
Jun 17 Nigerian Festival UK, Vauxhall, London
Jun 17-18 First Light Festival, Lowestoft
Jun 17-18 River Festival, Coventry
Jun 17-18 Africa Oyé Festival, Sefton Park, Liverpool
Jun 17-18 Ay-UpMarket, Old Market Square, Nottingham
Jun 17-18 Holmfirth Arts Festival Weekend
Jun 17-Sep 9 Spin Out Events (Worthing Theatres & Musuems)
Jun 18 Picnic in the Park, Devizes
Jun 21-25 Glastonbury Festival, Somerset
Jun 16-Jul 21 Summer Skate Series (Greenwich Dance)
Jun 23-Jul 5 BST Open House, Hyde Park, London
Jun 23-Jul 9 Basingstoke Festival, Basingstoke
Jun 23-25 Viva Cité, Sotteville, France
Jun 23-Jul 2 Bradford Literature Festival
Jun 23-Jul 2 Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania
Jun 23-Jul 9 Festival des 7 Collines, Saint-Etienne, France
Jun 24 Arnold Summer Fair, Nottingham
Jun 25 Glasgow Mela, Kelvingrove Park
Jun 25-Jul 21 Summer in the Park (Greenwich Dance)
Jun 28-Jul 2 Ports Fest, Portsmouth
Jun 28-Jul 2 What Shall We Build Here, London
Jun 29-Jul 16 Manchester International Festival, Manchester
Jun 30 Summer Sessions Skate Jam & Osian Meilir’s Qwerin, Greenwich Park
Jun 30-Jul 1 Hat Fair, Winchester
Jun 30-Jul 2 Godiva Festival, Coventry
Jun 30-Jul 2 Cheadle Carnival, Cheadle

Jun 30-Jul 9 Sway Carnival: Up & Beyond, Hampshire
JUL
Jul 1 Duckie Summer Fete, City of London
Jul 1 Fleet & District Carnival, Fleet
Jul 1 St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol
Jul 1 Eastham Carnival, Eastham
Jul 1 The Great Get Together, East London
Jul 1-2 Hedge End Carnival, Hedge End
Jul 1-Aug 31 Kensington & Chelsea Festival, London
Jul 2 Chelmsford Carnival
Jul 2 Camden Mela, Coram’s Fields, London
Jul 5-9 Henley Festival, Henley-on-Thames
Jul 6-8 Cratère Surfaces, Alès, France
Jul 6-9 Playable Cities Sandbox (Watershed), Bristol
Jul 6-9 Mouth of the Tyne Festival, Tynemouth
Jul 6-9 Tall Ships Festival, Hartlepool
Jul 6-9 The Wells Theatre Festival, Wells
Jul 7-9 Timber Festival, the National Forest, Leicestershire
Jul 7-9 Deventer op Stelten, The Netherlands
Jul 8 Bath Carnival
Jul 8 Bridgwater Quayside Festival, Somerset
Jul 8 Summer in the Park: Gallions Park Picnic, Thamesmead
Jul 8 Isle of Wight Mardi Gras (New Carnival Co.), Ryde
Jul 8-9 The National Festival of Making, Blackburn
Jul 8-9 Bradford Eid Festival, Bradford Moor Park
Jul 9 Streets Alive, Chelmsford
Jul 9 Turner Sims Family Summer Day, Southampton
Jul 9 Willenhall Sucha Mela, Willenhall Memorial Park
Jul 10-16 TILT Festival, Birmingham
Jul 11-Aug 22 Festival Place aux Mômes, Guilvinec, France
Jul 13-16 Open Space 70, Hebden Bridge
Jul 14-15 Bromsgrove Carnival
Jul 14-16 Barnsley’s Big Weekend, Barnsley
Jul 14-18 Miramiro Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Jul 15 Festival of the Sea, Grimsby
Jul 15 Southampton Mela Festival (Art Asia)
Jul 15-16 Bristol Harbour Festival
Jul 15-16 Summer Streets, Sunderland
Jul 15-22 Sonic Arts Week, Middlesbrough
Jul 15 Southampton Mela Festival (Art Asia), Southampton
Jul 16 Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Family Day, Liverpool
Jul 16 Derby Caribbean Carnival
Jul 16 Fleetwood Festival of Transport
Jul 16 Mauritius Open Air Festival, Barnet
Jul 16 Andover Carnival, Andover
Jul 19-22 Vaudeville Rendez Vous Festival, Portugal
Jul 19-23 Chalon dans la Rue, France
Jul 19-22 Pluralies, Luxeuil-les-Bains, France
Jul 19-22 Vaudeville Rendez Vous Festival, Barcelos & Guimarães, Portugal
Jul 20-30 Liverpool Theatre Festival, St Luke’s Bombed-Out Church
Jul 20-23 Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Jul 21-23 Ensemble Festival (Certain Blacks), Royal Docks
Jul 21-23 An Indian Summer (Inspirate), Leicester
Jul 21-30 IF: Milton Keynes International Festival
Jul 21-Aug 5 Garden Theatre Festival, Bath
Jul 22-23 Journeys Festival International, Leicester
Jul 22-23 In a Field by a Bridge, London Bridge
Jul 22-23 Birmingham Mela, Victoria Park, Smethwick
Jul 23-Aug 31 The Didcot Garden Party, Didcot
Jul 23 Tunbridge Wells Mela Festival (Cohesion Plus), Calverley Grounds
Jul 23 Eastleigh Mela, Eastleigh
Jul 27-30 Kendal Calling, Cumbria
Jul 27-30 Camp Bestival: Dorset, Lulworth Castle
Jul 28-29 BD:Festival, Bradford
Jul 28-31 Exmouth Festival
Jul 29 Sandown Carnival
Jul 29 Manchester Day – On Holiday (Walk the Plank), Manchester
Jul 29-30 Watchet Carnival
AUG
Aug 1 Hull International Carnival
Aug 3-6 Stockton International Riverside Festival
Aug 3-6 Wilderness Festival, Cornbury Park, Charlbury
Aug 4-6 Spraoi Festival, Waterford, Ireland
Aug 4-6 Bula Festival UK, Aldershot
Aug 4-25 Four Fun Fridays, Andover
Aug 5 Brazilica, Liverpool
Aug 5 Ewhurst Carnival, Ewhurst
Aug 5 Leicester Caribbean Carnival
Aug 5-6 Art in the Park, Leamington Spa
Aug 9-13 Boomtown, Winchester, Hampshire
Aug 9-20 Summer Sounds, Kings Cross, London
Aug 11-13 Gloworm Festival, Thoresby Park
Aug 11-13 Surge Festival, Glasgow
Aug 11-13 Serious Nonsense Festival, Prescot
Aug 11-13 Novum Summer Festival, Newcastle Civic Centre
Aug 12 Thamesmead Festival
Aug 12 Anhad, Bell Square, Hounslow
Aug 12-13 Middlesborough Mela, Albert Park, Middlesbrough
Aug 12-13 Manchester Caribbean Carnival, Alexandra Park
Aug 15-Sep 3 Festival of the Moon, Newbury
Aug 17-20 Camp Bestival: Shropshire, Weston Park
Aug 17-20 Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons National Park
Aug 18-20 Just So Festival, Rode Hall, Cheshire
Aug 19-27 Belfast Mela, Belfast
Aug 20 Leicester Belgrave Mela Festival, Leicester
Aug 20 Nottingham Carnival, Nottingham
Aug 23-26 Aurillac Festival International de Théâtre de Rue, France
Aug 24-28 Shambala, Northamptonshire
Aug 24-27 Greenbelt Festival, Boughton House, Kettering
Aug 25-27 Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Aug 25-26 The Big Feast (Appetite), Stoke on Trent
Aug 25-Aug 28 Bay Lines: Beach of Dreams (Kinetika), Morecambe Bay
Aug 25-Sep 10 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Greenwich, London
Aug 26 Exeter Street Arts Festival, Exeter
Aug 26 Newcastle Mela in the City, Grey’s Monument, Newcastle
Aug 26-Aug 26 Victorian Vauxhall, London
Aug 26-Aug 26 Greenwich Fair, GDIF at Greenwich Park
Aug 26-27 bOing! Festival, Kent
Aug 26-27 Re/action Festival, Leicester
Aug 26-Aug 27 Birmingham Weekender (Hippodrome), Birmingham
Aug 26-Aug 27 Between the Tides, Redcar Town Centre
Aug 26-Aug 27 Out of the Ordinary Festival, Cambridge
Aug 26-Sep 3 DiGGfest, Oslo, Norway
Aug 27 Nepali Mela, Sunbury-on-Thames
Aug 27-28 Notting Hill Carnival, London
Aug 27-28 Newcastle Mela, Exhibition Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Aug 28 Leeds West Indian Carnival, Leeds
Aug 30-Sep 3 Freedom Festival, Hull
Aug 31-Sep 3 Nairn Book & Arts Festival, Nairn
Aug 31-Sep 16 Bartholomew Fair, City of London
SEP
Sep 1-3 Liberty Festival, Croydon
Sep 1-30 Totally Thames, London
Sep 2 The Devizes Carnival Procession (DOCA), Devizes
Sep 2 The Full Shebang, Mansfield
Sep 2 Black on the Square, London
Sep 2-3 Vintage By The Sea, Morecambe
Sep 2-3 Desi Fest, Luton
Sep 7 Ugly Bugs Wingding (Enter Edem), Botanic Garden, University of Leicester
Sep 7-10 FiraTàrrega, Spain
Sep 7-10 b-side Arts Festival, Portland
Sep 8 You Are Here (SproutSpoken), Cornwall, Par
Sep 8-10 Grim Falfest, Grimsby
Sep 9 Cotton Carnival, Stalybridge
Sep 9 Hi! Street Fest (EEA), Stalybridge
Sep 9 Weave, Stalybridge
Sep 9-10 Middlesborough Mela (rescheduled), Albert Park
Sep 9-10 Arts on the Beach, Watergate Bay, Cornwall
Sep 9-10 Whirligig Festival of Outdoors Arts, Weston-super-Mare
Sep 9-10 Our City Moves (2FacedDance), Hereford
Sep 9-10 Dancing City, GDIF at Canary Wharf
Sep 10 Fresh Air Festival, Brightlingsea
Sep 10 Arts Fresco, Market Harborough
Sep 11-24 Pitch’d Circus & Street Arts Festival, Cork
Sep 15-Oct 1 Charlotte International Arts Festival, North Carolina, USA
Sep 15-17 Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth
Sep 15-17 Promenade Weekender, Weston super Mare
Sep 15-17 Lancashire Encounter, Preston
Sep 15-24 Inside Out, Dorset
Sep 16 Super Saturday, Yeovil
Sep 22 Hi! Street Fest Finale (EEA), Woolwich
Sep 22-23 Derby Festé, Derby
Sep 22-24 Journeys Festival of Dance, Newhaven, Hailsham and Bexhill
Sep 23-24 Festival of Thrift, Billingham
Sep 23 Barnsley Garden Party, Barnsley
Sep 23 Kendal Torchlight, Cumbria
Sep 23 Deep Sea Disco, Redruth
Sep 24 Houghton Regis Hullabaloo, Houghton
Sep 29-Oct 1 Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, Bournemouth
Sep 29-Oct 1 The Sound of the Streets Festival 2023, Taunton
OCT
Oct 1-22 Circus City: The Outsider Edition, Bristol
Oct 4-7 The City of Code and Light Festival, Milton Keynes
Oct 5-8 Fira Mediterrània, Manresa
Oct 6-8 Fun Palaces Weekend, UK-wide
Oct 12-13 Light Night Leeds, Leeds
Oct 13-28 Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow
Oct 13-29 SPILL Festival, Ipswich
Oct 13-22 Bloomsbury Festival, London
Oct 14-22 Hastings Storytelling Festival, Hastings & St Leonards
Oct 20-Oct 28 Lightpool Festival, Blackpool
Oct 20-30 Galoshans Festival, Inverclyde
Oct 21-Feb 25 Land of Lights South, Milton Keynes
Oct 21-Nov 4 Canterbury Festival, Canterbury
Oct 26-28 Paisley Halloween Festival, Paisley
Oct 27 Lister Park Lantern Parade, Bradford
Oct 27-29 Electric Medway Festival
Oct 27-Nov 5 River of Light, Liverpool Waterfront
Oct 28 The Winter Droving, Penrith
Oct 28 Southend Halloween Parade
NOV
Nov 2-4 Light Up Lancaster, Lancaster
Nov 3-4 BD:Is LiT, Bradford
Nov 4 Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Illuminated Carnival, Somerset
Nov 4-18 Somerset Illuminated Carnival Season, Somerset
Nov 11 The Lord Mayor’s Show, London
Nov 11-Feb 25 Land of Lights North, Warrington
Nov 11-Dec 24 Luminate Sandringham, Sandringham Estate, Norfolk
Nov 15 Shepton Mallet Carnival, Shepton Mallet
Nov 15-Dec 30 Glow at RHS Garden Bridgewater, Greater Manchester
Nov 16-19 Lumiere, Durham
Nov 17-26 Light Up Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Nov 17-Dec 31 Lanterns and Light, Chester Zoo
Nov 22-Dec 31 Luminate Wales, Margam Country Park, Wales
Nov 24-25 Barnsley Bright Nights, Barnsley
Nov 24-26 Wintertide Festival, Hartlepool
Nov 24-Dec 23 Yuletide (Wild Rumpus), Knutsford
Nov 24-Jan 2 Luminate Coombe, Coombe Abbey Park, Coventry
Nov 25 Dundee Hooley, Dundee City Square
Nov 25 Carnival of the Baubles, Ashford
Nov 25-Jan 2 Luminate Birmingham, Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Nov 29-Dec 3 Nightfall, Middlesbrough
Nov 29-Dec 24 Luminate National Botanic Garden of Wales, Middleton Hall, Llanarthne
Nov 30-Dec 24 Luminate Cheshire, Walton Gardens

Nov 30-Dec 31 Light Up Trails, Romsey, Hampshire
DEC
Dec 1-Jan 1 Saltaire Living Advent Calendar, Saltaire
Dec 7-10 Lightwaves, Salford Quays
Dec 10 Festival of Light 2023, Newbury
Dec 14-23 The Brighton Lights, Brighton