Hat Fair (Programme Announced), Winchester
Jul 5, 2024 - Jul 7, 2024

Hat Fair is a family-friendly festival of Street Performance and Outdoor Arts.

The festival takes place every year during the first weekend of July across the historic city of Winchester.

There’s something for everyone to enjoy.

The festival is the UK’s longest continually running Outdoor Arts festival.

Hat Fair is a partner in Without Walls, working with festivals and artists and bringing fantastic outdoor arts to people in towns and cities across the UK. Hat Fair is supported by Winchester City Council and presented in partnership with Without Walls. The festival is supported by University of Winchester, University of Southampton and Winchester BID.

Outdoor Arts Programme

  • Tit for Tat Circus, A Knight Away
  • Blue Apple’s Special Assignments Company, A Literary Prominade
  • Amazing Camera Obscura
  • NoFit State Circus, BAMBOO
  • Raggle Taggle Arts, Betty Brown Bags
  • Gobbledegook Theatre, Cloudscapes
  • Fraser Hooper, Funny Business
  • Harvey Juggling
  • Playmakers, Hat Fair Carnival
  • Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, House!
  • Imre Bernath
  • Bailey’s Original Seaside Imaginarium, Island Storm
  • The Great Dave
  • Holly Foskett, Keep it Civil!
  • Kiki and Pascal
  • Kiki Bittovabitsch
  • Liberate Dance
  • Matt Pang, Loaded
  • Tit for Tat Circus, Now I Am Become Deaf (Destroyer of Words)
  • Darryl J Carrington, Out of the Box
  • Autin Dance Theatre, Parade – The Giant Wheel
  • Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates, Patois
  • Garaghty and Thom, Streetcomedy