Discover the Peterborough Celebrates Festival – a new, free to attend, family-orientated festival in Nene Park that will bring communities together and celebrate everything that defines our fantastic city.
Taking place in Ferry Meadows across the weekend of 13th – 15th May 2022, Peterborough Celebrates will provide a variety of entertainment, activities and cultural attractions creating a festival for everyone to experience and enjoy different things.
FRIDAY 13th MAY
6.00pm Ogunkile Ifemayowa Emmanuel – Talking Drums
6.30pm Festival Welcome, followed by premiere of Thank you Peterborough Film,
Followed by Peterborough Pride Singer
7.00pm Halyana Balaban – Ukrainian Singer
7.30pm Peterborough Opera
8.00pm Opaque – Gypsy Jazz Band
Plus drop-in circus workshops in the Big Top for everyone to have go, the Graffiti Wall by Streets Arts Hire, the Fabuloso Organ, fun fair, food & drink and wandering performers…
SATURDAY 14th MAY
11.00am Welcome & Thank You Film
11.15am Film premiere: Magical History Tour Part 3 by Deljit Singh
11.30am Lamphouse Theatre: This Is Peterborough!
12.30pm Lucy’s Pop Choir
Lost in Translation Circus: The Hogwallops
1.00pm Gabriella Pinada Rodrigues Disney songs
1.30pm High Heritage
Ockham’s Razor: Public circus dance & parkour
1.45pm U3A Cabaret Performance
2.00pm Ritu Ranga – Bollywood Dancing
2.30pm Musafir
3.00pm Lamphouse Theatre: This Is Peterborough!
Peterborough College – Live Music including excerpt from Legally Blonde
4.15pm Upon This Rock- Teen Rock Band
4.30pm Lost in Translation Circus: The Hogwallops
5.00pm Tommy Philpott – singer songwriter
5.30pm Ockham’s Razor: Public circus dance & parkour
6.00pm Austin Gold – Peterborough Rock Band
7.00pm DJ Eddie Nash
8.00pm Odyssey – 70s/80s international dance band from New York
Plus sign-up circus workshops, Graffiti Wall by Streets Arts Hire, the Anti Gravity Box, Kite-Making, Peterborough Royalty banners & flags, the Fabuloso Organ, Craft Stars by Metal, Peterborough College Green Screen & Craft Activities, sports & games, fun fair, wandering performers including from Bureau of Silly Ideas, food & drink and community stalls and market place.
SUNDAY 15th MAY
11.00am Lamphouse Theatre: This Is Peterborough!
12.00pm Peterborough Big Band
Ockham’s Razor: Public circus dance & parkour
12.30pm Banquine Bar – acrobatics show
1.00pm Gabriella Pinada Rodrigues opera & classics
1.15pm Casson & Friends – Preppers headphone contemporary dance
1.30pm Lucky Town UK Americana, blues & rock
2.00pm Bharat Hindu Samaj singers
Peterborough Pride Cabaret
2.30pm Peterborough Flute Choir
Ockham’s Razor: Public circus dance & parkour
3.00pm Multi Faith Celebration including performance by Cathedral Choristers
Spoken Word Comedy Cabaret
3.30pm City Praise Band
Peterborough Salvation Army Band
Casson & Friends – Preppers headphones dance theatre
4.00pm Abbey Ukes – Ukelele Band
Banquine Bar – acrobatics show
4.30pm Starlight Twirlettes
East Timorese Dance
5.00pm Lamphouse Theatre: This Is Peterborough!
5.45pm Wrap Up & Thanks
Plus sign-up circus workshops, Graffiti Wall by Streets Arts Hire, the Anti Gravity Box, Kite-Making, Peterborough Royalty banners & flags, Fest-en-Fest by Metal & H2Dance with students from Peterborough College, Peterborough College Green Screen & Craft Activities, sports & games, fun fair, wandering performers including from Bureau of Silly Ideas, food & drink and community stalls and market place.
