Arts Fresco Lite, Market Harborough
Sep 7, 2024

​The annual Arts Fresco Festival will be returning to Market Harborough this September in a much-reduced form – Arts Fresco Lite. The event will take place from 11.00 am to 2.30pm on Saturday 7 September 2024 and will feature three major acts.

Due to financial limitations, Arts Fresco Lite is a reduced version of the annual day-long Arts Fresco Festival. The acts at this year’s Arts Fresco Lite are:

  • ​MarkMark productions – an Arts Fresco favourite and one of Britain’s leading festival and street theatre companies
  • Bedlam Oz with a Market Harborough favourite ‘Big Mob’ – a pair of giant Slinkies bring their bewitching world to the streets of town
  • The Felicity Footloose Show – watch Felicity as she juggles, dances and performs daredevil acrobatics, all set to a fabulous 80s soundtrack

Felicity Footloose’s show will be performed in the square. Slinkies and MarkMark will perform in the area around the old Grammar School, Adam and Eve Street, St Mary’s Place and the square for their walk-about acts. Arts Fresco Lite will run in conjunction with the Fringe event where singer songwriters will perform in local shops and cafes.

Arts Fresco regularly showcases some of the best street theatre performers in the UK and Europe. The annual event first ran in 2002 and is one of the largest, free street theatre festivals in the UK.

Arts Fresco is organised by a dedicated team of local business professionals who all volunteer their time and are passionate about the arts and Market Harborough.

The organisers want to keep Arts Fresco as a public event that is free and accessible for all to attend.