Outdoor Arts Listings 2016

This is an archive list of 2016 festivals, events, performances and programmes which include some element of Outdoor Arts.

It also includes conferences, meetings and professional development events, plus the occasional indoor or non-sector event which relates to artists or other parts of the Outdoor Arts sector. Music and food festivals are included where they have an element of Outdoor Arts in the programme. As time goes by, some of the links may well be redirected or disappear, but we’ll leave the list up for reference. Something to add (even retrospectively)? Let us know: info@outdoorartsuk.org

JAN

9 Jan-6 Feb London International Mime Festival
9-11 Jan D&D: Theatre & the Performing Arts, Birmingham
11-22 Jan Winter Lights at Canary Wharf, London
13-15 Jan Circostrada General Meeting, Smells Like Circus, Ghent, Belgium
14-17 Jan Lumiere Festival of Light, London
15 Jan Bloomberg Lumiere London Symposium
23 Jan Burns Aflame, Ayrshire

FEB

3 Feb-6 Mar Magical Lantern Festival, Chiswick House & Garden
5-6 Feb Dulwich Picture Gallery Fire Garden, London
11-14 Feb Spectra, Aberdeen’s Festival of Light
11 Feb-6 Mar Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
13-20 Feb Showzam, Blackpool
15 Feb-17 Sep genius loci: Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
23-24 Feb ADUK Conference: Our Cultural Commons, Norwich
23 Feb Elevate Masterclass: Tanya Raabe & Venture Arts, Manchester
24 Feb: Elevate Masterclass: Making Music on the Move, Manchester
24 Feb Creative Engagement Conference, Goldthorpe
26 Feb National Centre for Circus Arts Open Day, London
26 Feb-7 Mar Dancin’ Oxford
26 Feb-14 Mar Adelaide Festival of Arts, Australia

MAR

1 Mar Elevate Masterclass: Gigantes & the Chester Midsummer Watch, Manchester
3 Mar: Elevate Masterclass: Narrative through Design, Manchester
4 Mar A Meeting of Creative Minds, Worcester
4-6 Mar Castaway Arts Festival, Goole
4-6 Mar For the Love of It, NASA Gathering, Huddersfield
5 Mar Celebrating Chartism Sound and Light Event, Newport
8-20 Mar Festival Up!, Brussels
8 Mar-3 Apr White Hawk Hill, Brighton
9-12 Mar Subcase Circus Showcase, Stockholm
12 Mar Show Culture Some Love Conference, London
13 Mar st-ART Festival, Tegelen, Netherlands
13 Mar St Patrick’s Day Festival and Parade, London
15 Mar National Outdoor Events Association Student Conference, Sheffield
17 Mar Festival of Light, Artis Community, Clydach Vale
17-20 Mar St Patrick’s Festival, Dublin, Ireland
26 Mar Firespring, Cyclopark, Kent
29-31 Mar Stopgap Spring Lab, Guildford
31 Mar-2 Apr Granite, Aberdeen

APR

1 Apr Beyond Borders Conference, London
1-10 Apr London Games Festival
2 Apr A Day to Play About, Somerset House, London
4-24 Apr Roundhouse CircusFest, London
5 Apr Norfolk Spring Fling
5 Apr AIF Festival Futures, Brighton
7 Apr AIF Festival Futures, Manchester
7-9 Apr The Company of Wolves, Cwmcarn Forest, Caerphilly
13-15 Apr Circostrada Fresh Circus #3: Moving Borders, Paris, France
21-23 Apr The Company of Wolves, Durlston Country Park, Dorset
23 Apr Feast of St. George, London
23 Apr Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, Stratford-upon-Avon
23 Apr Shakespeare Lives! Isle of Wight
23-24 Apr Shakespeare: The Complete Walk, London
29-30 Apr Celebrate! Carnival Learning Conference, Portsmouth
29 Apr-1 May Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
29 Apr-2 May Festival of Fools, Belfast
29 Apr-15 May Wye Valley River Festival
30 Apr Crossing Lines Workshop, 101 Creation Centre, Newbury
30 Apr-2 May The Day At The Lake, Staffordshire
30 Apr The Great Big Donco, Doncaster

MAY

1-2 May Geronimo Festival, Harewood House, Leeds
3-13 May Ignite Dundee
3-21 May International Dance Festival Birmingham
5-7 May The Company of Wolves, Delamere Forest, Cheshire
6-22 May Wandsworth Fringe
6-7 May Fantasy High Street, Putney
7 May Southpaw Dance: Carousel, Bell Square, Hounslow
7-29 May Brighton Festival
10 May XTRAX Seminar: How to sell your work in Europe
12-15 May Trapzi, Reus, Spain
13-29 May Norfolk and Norwich Festival
13 May Liverpool Light Night
14 May Roehampton Outdoor Arts Movement, London
14 May Hidden Heathbrook, Heathbrook Park, London
14-15 May A Weekend Without Walls, Brighton
14/21 May Carnival Arts Short Course, Goldsmiths, London
17 May The BENCH event, Birmingham
19-22 May Umore Azoka, Leoia, Spain
20-21 May Imaginarious Festival, Santa Maria de Feria, Portugal
20-22 May Navadisha International Dance Conference, Birmingham
20-28 May Physical Fest, Liverpool
20-29 May Bury St Edmunds Festival
20 May-30 Aug Oddsocks Productions on Tour
21 May Street Theatre Day, Physical Fest, Liverpool
21 May Street Theatre Panel Discussion, Liverpool
21 May Of Man and Beast, Bell Square, Hounslow
21-22 May The Garden Party, NNF, Norwich
24 May-30 Jul Wiretapper, Shunt Events, London
24-29 May Tête-à-Tête Festival, Rastatt, Germany
24-28 May Nutkhut: Dr Blighty, Brighton Pavilion
26 May-5 Jun HowTheLightGetsIn, Hereford
27 May-11 Jun Ageas Salisbury International Festival
27 May-12 Jun Bath Fringe Festival
27-29 May No Man’s Land Festival, Somerset
28 May AssembleFest, Hull
28 May Whitley Bay Carnival
28 May Jarrow Festival Community Carnival, Tyne and Wear
28-29 May Tangled Feet: Emerge/ncy, Brighton Dome
28-29 May The People’s Tower, Dundee
28-30 May The Lost Carnival, Crewe
29 May Luton International Carnival
29-30 May Geronimo Festival, Tatton Park, Cheshire
30 May Great Malvern Food Festival
30 May-4 Jun Plymouth Fringe Festival
30 May-10 Sep Heartbreak Productions on Tour

JUN

1 Jun-2 Jul LIFT, London
1-2 Jun No Strings: an Unconvention for Wire Walkers
1 Jun – 31 Oct London Bridge City Summer
3 Jun You Are Here: Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival
3-5 Jun Fire in the Mountain Festival, Aberystwyth
3-6 Jun Forest of Imagination, Bath
3-6 Jun Cornwall Circus Camp, Falmouth
4 Jun Paint The Town Red, Workington
4 Jun Teatr KTO: Peregrinus, Bell Square, Hounslow
4 Jun You Are Here: Adur Festival, Shoreham
4 Jun Wild Woods Day, Hockley Wood, Rochford
4-5 Jun Wheee! Family Fun Weekend, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
4-5 Jun Bedlam Fair, Bath
4-16 Jun Adur Festival, West Sussex
4 Jun-15 Oct Stade Saturdays, Hastings
5 Jun Big Lunch, Queen Elizabeth Park, London
5 Jun You Are Here: Summer Festival, East Greenwich Pleasance
6-12 Jun Hammersmith & Fulham ArtsFest, London
9-13 Jun La Strada, Bremen, Germany
9-12 Jun Eden Festival, Lockerbie
10-19 Jun Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania
10-19 Jun Oerol Festival, Netherlands
10-12 Jun Symmetry Festival, Norfolk
11 Jun Eastleigh Unwrapped
11 Jun Northampton Carnival
11 Jun Project Vee: Stade Saturdays, Hastings
11-12 Jun Fuse Medway Festival (cancelled 2016)
11-12 Jun Preston Caribbean Carnival
11-19 Jun Leith Festival
12 Jun Meltdown Circus Day, Southbank Centre, London
12 Jun The Patron’s Lunch, The Mall, London
14 Jun-8 Jul City of London Festival (cancelled 2016)
16-26 Jun Depart (LIFT), Tower Hamlets
16 Jun-3 Jul Yorkshire Festival
17 Jun Green at Heart Carnival Parade, Basingstoke
17 Jun You Are Here: My Story Festival, Budapest, Hungary
17-18 Jun Furious Folly, Oxford
17-19 Jun Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Coventry
17-19 Jun Solas Festival, Perth
17-26 Jun Cork Midsummer Festival, Ireland
17-26 Jun InTRANSIT Festival, London
17-30 Jun Greenwich Dances
17 Jun-2 Jul Grassington Festival
17 Jun-3 Jul Ashbourne Festival
17 Jun-10 Jul Basingstoke Festival
18 Jun Dagfest, Dagenham Village
18 June Titled Productions: Belonging(s), Bell Square, Hounslow
18 Jun Somerfest, Taunton
18-19 Jun SouthWestFest, Westminster, London
18-19 Jun Feast Festival Weekend, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury
18-19 Jun StreetFest, Ashbourne
18-19 Jun Alban Weekend, St Albans
18-25 Jun Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield
18 Jun-24 Jul Bromsgrove Festival
19 Jun Manchester Day
19 Jun ISAN On the Road: Manchester
21-25 Jun BE Festival, Birmingham
22-24 Jun Circostrada General Meeting, GDIF, London
22 Jun-22 Jul Much Ado About Nothing, Covent Garden, London
23-25 Jun Fire Garden, Yorkshire Festival, Harrogate
24 Jun Xtrax Outdoor Arts Marketplace, Greenwich
24-26 Jun The Utopia Fair, Somerset House
24-26 Jun Glastonbury Festival
24 Jun-3 Jul Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
24 Jun-3 Jul Imagine Watford
24 Jun-24 Jul Chepstow Festival
24 Jun-3 Jul Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
25 Jun-3 Jul SO Festival, East Lincolnshire
18 Jun Countryside Comes to Town, Blackburn
25 Jun Mid Mad Festival, Aberystwyth
25 Jun Shakespeare Mardi Gras, Isle of Wight
25 Jun Deighton Carnival, Yorkshire
26 Jun Walking with Giants, Milton Keynes (cancelled 2016)
26 Jun Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade
27 Jun Teddington Village Fair
29 Jun-3 Jul Hijinx Unity Festival, Cardiff
30 Jun-2 Jul Calling Tree (LIFT), Tottenham
30 Jun-14 Jul Much Ado, Shakespeare in the Squares, London

JUL

1 Jul Club Silly Session, London
1-3 Jul Winchester Hat Fair
1-3 Jul Shipley Street Arts Festival
1-3 Jul Godiva Festival, Coventry
1-10 Jul Lichfield Festival
1-10 Jul Mirabilia Festival, Italy
1 Jul-6 Sep Amy Johnson Festival, Hull
2 Jul Place des Anges, Yorkshire Festival, Hull
2 Jul Bermondsey Carnival, London
2 Jul South Tyneside Summer Parade, Tyne & Wear
2 Jul Kuljit Bhamra: Chutney in the Street! Bell Square, Hounslow
2 Jul You Are Here: Sutcliff Song & Dance, Sutcliff Park
2 Jul Dragon Parade, Southbank Centre, London
2 Jul Brimmington Festival, Southwark, London
2 Jul Street Saturday, Hebden Bridge
2-10 Jul Discover, Play, Dream: Dance!, Bournemouth
2-10 Jul Big Dance, UK
2-16 Jul Lafrowda Festival, Cornwall
2-17 Jul Starboard Festival, Brighton
3 Jul You Are Here: Greenwich World Cultural Festival, Eltham Palace
3 Jul ISAN On the Road: Winchester
3 Jul Greenwich World Cultural Festival
3 Jul-4 Sep Brazilian Summer, Horniman Museum & Gardens, London
3 Jul Street Sunday, Hebden Bridge
5 Jul-13 Aug The Hobbit, Williamson Park, Lancaster
5-10 Jul Nowhere Festival, Catalonia, Spain
6-10 Jul Henley Festival
6-10 Jul Mouth of the Tyne Festival
6-24 Jul Buxton Festival Fringe
7 Jul Club Silly Session, London
7 Jul-29 Aug Festival of Love, Southbank Centre, London
8-9 Jul Furious Folly, Birmingham
8-9 Jul Brouhaha International: Infecting the City, Liverpool
8-9 Jul City Spectacular, Dublin, Ireland
8-10 Jul Bradford Festival
8-10 Jul Lichfield Fuse Festival
8-17 Jul Flight, Windermere
9 Jul ICD: Life Boat, Catford (Circulate)
9 Jul Turning the Pages: the Mayor’s Newham Carnival
9 Jul Party in the Park, Woking
9 Jul Sea of Hull
9 Jul Maindee Festival, Newport
9 Jul Rotherithe Festival, Southwark, London
9 Jul Lewisham People’s Day, London
9 Jul Shuffle Festival, Mile End, London
9-10 Jul Taliesin Arts Centre Dance Days, Swansea
9-10 Jul Art in the Park, Milton Keynes
10 Jul Cowley Road Carnival, Oxford
10 Jul You Are Here: Summer Sunday Extravaganza, Mycenae Gardens
13-17 Jul Larmer Tree Festival, Wiltshire
13-23 Jul Milton Keynes Festival Fringe
13-23 Jul Extraordinary Creatures, Barn Gallery, Westbury Arts Centre
14-17 Jul Horse and Bamboo Puppet Festival, Waterfoot
14-17 Jul Latitude Festival, Suffolk
15-17 Jul Bristol Harbour Festival
15-17 Jul Brazilica Samba Festival, Liverpool
15-19 Jul MiramirO, Ghent, Belgium
15-24 Jul Milton Keynes International Festival
15-31 Jul Birmingham Festival
16 Jul Carnival of Giants, Telford
16 Jul Motionhouse: Broken, Quays Culture, Salford
16 Jul Cie Barolosolo: Ile O, Bell Square, Hounslow (Circulate)
16-17 Jul City Spectacular, Cork, Ireland
16-17 Jul Lambeth Country Show, London
16-17 Jul Big Splash Festival, Riverfront, Newport
16-17 Jul Derby Caribbean Carnival
17 Jul ISAN On the Road: Milton Keynes
17 Jul SpareParts Festival, Fleetwood Festival of Transport
17 Jul You Are Here: Family Fun Day, Avery Hill, Eltham
18 Jul Oddsocks: Macbeth, Canary Wharf, London
18-24 Jul Tilt16, Birmingham
20-24 Jul Chalon dans la Rue, France
21-23 Jul Pflasterspektakel, Linz, Austria
21-24 Jul Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton
21-29 Jul Tempting Failure, London
22-24 Jul Deer Shed Festival, Yorkshire
22-24 Jul Nozstock The Hidden Valley, Herefordshire
22-24 Jul Underneath the Stars Festival, Barnsley
22-24 Jul The Outer Space at Blue Dot Festival
23 Jul Plaza Latina, Southwark, London
23 Jul Alexandra Palace Summer Festival
23 Jul International Busking Day
23 Jul Dance Showcase, Canary Wharf, London
23-24 Jul Summer in Southside, Birmingham
23-24 Jul Walk the Plank: Isle of Fire, Barry Island, Wales
23-30 Jul Circolumbia Residency, Elephant and Castle, London
25-27 Jul Buzz Aerial Dance Retreat, Herefordshire
26-31 Jul Baseless Fabric: Drifting Dragons, Merton
27 Jul-28 Aug Treasure Island, Covent Garden, London
28 Jul Electric Swing Circus, mac Birmingham
28-30 Jul Fantasy High Street, London Bridge
28-31 Jul Kendal Calling, Lake District
28-31 Jul Walk the Plank: Lost Eden at Kendal Calling
28-31 Jul Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall
29-31 Jul River Stage: The Glory, National Theatre, London
29-31 Jul Womad, Charlton Park
29-31 Jul Waterford Spraoi International Street Arts Festival
29-31 Jul Cloudspotting Festival, Lancashire
29-31 Jul Mugstock, nr Milngavie, Scotland
29 Jul-6 Aug National Eisteddfod, Abergavenny
30 Jul Markeline: Andante, Bell Square, Hounslow
30 Jul Compagnie Barolosolo: Ile O, Deptford (Circulate)
30 Jul The Big Feast Taster Tour, Newcastle Town Centre
30-31 Jul Colombianamente, Southwark, London
30-31 Jul Manchester Mega Mela
30-31 Jul Surge Festival, Glasgow
30 Jul-7 Aug Merchant City Festival, Glasgow
31 Jul ISAN On the Road: Glasgow
31 Jul Taste at the Top of the Town, Basingstoke
31 Jul Illyria: Danny Champion of the World, Canary Wharf, London

AUG

1 Aug Boxtree: Scarlet Pimpernel, Canary Wharf, London
2 Aug Compagnie Barolosolo: Ile O, Edmonton (Circulate)
3-4 Aug Playfest Children’s Festival, Truro
3-5 Aug ITAC3: Participatory Arts, Edinburgh
4-7 Aug Stockton International Riverside Festival
4-5 Aug Furious Folly, Stockton-on-Tees
4-7 Aug Lytham Festival, Lancashire
4-7 Aug Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire
4-14 Aug Theaterfestival Boulevard, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
4-21 Aug Darwin Festival, Australia
5 Aug Punk Cabaret, Club Silly, Brixton
5-7 Aug River Stage: Latitude Festival, National Theatre, London
5-29 Aug Edinburgh Festival and Edinburgh Fringe
5-14 Aug Festival Interceltique, Lorient, France
6 Aug ISAN On the Road: Stockton-on-Tees
6 Aug Leicester Caribbean Carnival
6 Aug Wells Carnival, Wells-next-the-Sea
6-7 Aug Night of Festivals, More London
7 Aug Margate Carnival
7 Aug Heartbreak Productions: Ratburger, Canary Wharf, London
8 Aug Chapterhouse: Wuthering Heights, Canary Wharf, London
8 Aug The Beast of Brixton: BeautifulMess Theatre, London
9 Aug Motionhouse/NoFit State: Block, Edmonton (Circulate)
10-14 Aug Open Flair Festival, Eschwege, Germany
11-14 Aug BoomTown Fair, Hampshire
11-14 Aug Theater op de Markt, Hasselt, Belgium
11-20 Aug Southend Carnival
12-14 Aug River Stage: Mayfest, National Theatre, London
13 Aug ICD: Life Boat, Bell Square, Hounslow (Circulate)
13-14 Aug Barry Island Weekender
13-14 Aug Manchester Caribbean Carnival
16 Aug ICD: Life Boat, Millfield, Edmonton (Circulate)
17-20 Aug Le Festival d’Aurillac, France
18-21 Aug Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
19 Aug D&D: Shall we Create a European Union of Artists?, London
19-21 Aug River Stage: Rambert, National Theatre, London
19-21 Aug Just So Festival, Cheshire
20 Aug The Big Feast Taster Tour, Spode and Stoke Town
20 Aug Appleby Summer Pudding
20 Aug Camberwell Fair, London
20 Aug Avanti Display Day: Stade Saturdays, Hastings
20-21 Aug Block: Articulture tour, Wales
20-21 Aug Nottingham Carnival
21 Aug Street Arts – Where to Go Next, World Fringe, Edinburgh
24 Aug The Big Feast Taster Tour, Portland Street Green Space, Hanley
25-28 Aug Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort, Netherlands
25-28 Aug Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire
26 Aug ThamesFest, Barking Riverside
26-27 Aug Anonymous Festival, Dorchester
26-28 Aug Lakes Alive, Kendal
26 Aug ISAN On the Road: Kendal
26-28 Aug The Big Feast, Appetite, Stoke
26-29 Aug River Stage: National Theatre, London
26-29 Aug Greenbelt Festival, Boughton House, Northamptonshire
26-29 Aug Towersey Festival, Oxfordshire
27 Aug NoFit State/Motionhouse: Block, Bell Square, Hounslow (Circulate)
27 Aug: Le Cirque du Platzak: Stade Saturdays, Hastings
27-28 Aug Edinburgh Mela (cancelled July)
27-28 Aug bOing! International Family Festival, Canterbury
27-28 Aug Mysteryland, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
27-28 Aug Burnley Canal Festival
27-29 Aug Notting Hill Carnival, London
27-29 Aug Leeds West Indian Carnival
27-29 Aug Cornwall Acrobatic Camp, Falmouth
28 Aug Life Boat/Ile O/Block, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stratford (Circulate)
28-29 Aug Teatr Biuro Podrózy: Silence, Corn Exchange, Newbury
28-29 Aug Devizes International Street Festival
30 Aug-4 Sep Great Fire 350: London’s Burning
31 Aug-25 Sep Prince Ivan/Crime & Punishment, The Scoop, London

SEP

1-4 Sep Festival No. 6, Portmeiron
1-30 Sep Totally Thames, London
2-4 Sep DNweekeND, Doncaster
2-4 Sep Freedom Festival, Hull
2-4 Sep Maui Waui Festival, Suffolk
3 Sep ZEE London Mela, Wembley Park
3 Sep National Paralympic Day and Liberty Festival, London
3 Sep World Picnic, Telford
3 Sep Motionhouse/NoFit State: Block, Deptford (Circulate)
3 Sep Kingswood Festival, Southwark
3 Sep The Mayor of London’s Liberty Festival
3 Sep-2 Oct Coastal Currents
3-24 Sep Brisbane Festival, Australia
6-9 Sep British Science Festival, Swansea
6-11 Sep Unlimited Festival, Southbank Centre, London
7 Sep-8 Nov Lightpool, Blackpool
8-11 Sep FiraTàrrega , Spain
8-11 Sep Bestival, Isle of Wight
8-11 Sep Peckham Festival, Southwark, London
9 Sep Paisley Park Lantern Festival, Southwark
9 Sep Kendal Torchlight Carnival
9-18 Sep Saltaire Festival
10 Sep Batley Festival, West Yorkshire
10 Sep Big Dance Bus: Pop-Up Ballroom, Bell Square, Hounslow
16 Sep Doing Things Differently: State of the Nation
16-18 Sep Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth
16-18 Sep Ramsbottom Festival
16-22 Sep La Mercè Festival, Barcelona
16-25 Sep Inside Out Dorset
17 Sep River Festival, Ironbridge
17 Sep Red Earth: Strange Magic, Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
17-18 Sep Extraordinary Bodies: Weighting, Castle Park, Bristol
17-18 Sep Festival of Thrift, Darlington
17-18 Sep Bicycle Ballet: Blazing Saddles, Dulwich, London
17-18 Sep Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected, Cardiff
17 Sep-2 Oct Estuary Festival, Thames Estuary
18 Sep Arts Fresco, Market Harborough
21-25 Sep Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham
21-26 Sep Findhorn Bay Festival
22-25 Sep Hengistbury Headlines, Dorset
23 Sep Vagabond Matters – Where Arts and Science Meet, Grantham
23-25 Sep Llandundo Arts Weekend #4
23-25 Sep Lancashire Encounter
23-24 Sep Derby Festé
23 Sep ISAN On the Road: Derby
23-25 Sep Porthcawl Elvis Festival
24 Sep Roger Bernat: The Rite of Spring, Bell Square, Hounslow
24-25 Sep Millport Festival of Light
24 Sep ISAN On the Road: Llandudno
26 Sep-1 Oct Festival of Imagineers, Coventry

OCT

1 Oct Sightings!, Blackfriars Stories, Southwark, London
1 Oct Year of Adventure: Caernarfon Alight
1 Oct D&D: Shall we Create a European Union of Artists?, Brighton
1 Oct Acrojou: Stade Saturdays, Hastings
1 Oct Festival of Imagineers Street Day, Coventry
1-2 Oct Fun Palaces
1-5 Oct Hi Seoul Festival, South Korea
1-22 Oct Le Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux, France
4-8 Oct Performing Arts Market Seoul, South Korea
6-7 Oct Time to be Late, Blackfriars Stories, Southwark, London
7 Oct Light Night Leeds
8 Oct Walk the Plank: Sea of Freaks, Bournemouth
8 Oct HURyCAN: Te Odiero, Bell Square, Hounslow
8-15 Oct Bournemouth Arts by the Sea
8-25 Oct Melbourne Festival, Australia
13 Oct Event Awards 2016, London
14-16 Oct Just So Festival, Brazil
15 Oct Hastings Bonfire Night
15 Oct Dashehra Diwali Mela, Manchester
16 Oct Super Slow Way: A Rhapsody to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Blackburn
16 Oct Diwali Festival, Trafalgar Square, London
19-23 Oct Bloomsbury Festival, London
20 Oct D&D: How do we make great Outdoor Arts, 101 Creation Centre, Newbury
21-23 Oct Calling Tree, St George’s Gardens, London
22 Oct Lieux Publics: Le Concert De Public, Bell Square, Hounslow
22 Oct Circle of Light, Peterborough
27 Oct Stopgap Wheelchair Dance Taster Day, Ovalhouse, London
28 Oct Moving Out Symposium, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
28 Oct Mexican Day of The Dead Festival, Basingstoke
28-29 Oct Outdoor Arts Ideas Summit, Bradford
28-30 Oct Galoshans Festival, Greenock
28-31 Oct Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin
28 Oct-23 Dec Festival of Ian Smith, Edinburgh
29 Oct Northampton Diwali Celebrations
29 Oct Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Fire Festival (cancelled 2016)
30 Oct Macnus Parade, Ireland
31 Oct Samhuinn Fire Festival, Edinburgh
31 Oct Savour Kilkenny, Ireland

NOV

4-5 Nov Light Up Lancaster
4-5 Nov Metro-Boulot-Dodo: The Gunpowder Plot, Boughton House
4 Nov Emergency Exit Arts: Coram Fields Fireworks
5 Nov Emergency Exit Arts: Blackheath Fireworks, London
5 Nov Diwali Light Up Parade, Greenwich
5 Nov Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival
5 Nov Emergency Exit Arts: Southwark Fireworks, London
5 Nov Avanti Display: Reliquary, Bell Square, Hounslow
5 Nov Friends of Summerhill Bonfire Night, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
6 Nov Walk the Plank: Great Fire of London Fireworks, Victoria Park, London
7 Nov Burnham-on-Sea Carnival
9 Nov A Festival Career: BAFA Student Conference, Manchester
9 Nov-2 Jan Winter Light at Waddesdon Manor
10-13 Nov National Circus Festival, Tralee, Ireland
11 Nov Weston-super-Mare Carnival
11-13 Nov Association of Festival Organisers Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon
12/19 Nov Carnival Arts Short Course, Goldsmiths, London
12 Nov: Lord Mayor’s Show, London
12 Nov Share: ISACS Annual Open Forum, Tralee, Ireland
12 Nov Didsbury Lantern Parade
12 Nov Winter Droving, Penrith
12 Nov North Petherton Carnival, Somerset
15-23 Nov Kamchatka Workshops, Ireland
16 Nov Shepton Mallet Carnival
17 Nov Emergency Exit Arts: Christmas Dream Machine, Stoke
17 Nov Eltham Lights Up
19 Nov Glastonbury Carnival
19 Nov Same Sky: Winter Lights, Bell Square Hounslow
19 Nov Windows on the World, Catford
23-24 Nov BAFA Conference for Festivals, Hull
23 Nov-2 Jan Christmas at Kew, London
24 Nov Offsite: Writing a Grants for the Arts for Outdoor Arts and Launch Event, Derby
25 Nov Blackfriars Stories, Southwark
25 Nov Devizes Christmas Festival and Lantern Parade
25-27 Nov Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival
25 Nov-2 Jan Magical Lantern Festival, Roundhay Park, Leeds
25 Nov-2 Jan Magical Lantern Festival, Botanical Gardens, Birmingham
26 Nov Woolwich Winter Warmer
30 Nov-11 Dec Garden of Stars: Enchanted Lewes

DEC

2 Dec AD:UK Seminar – Arts & Resilience: Changes in Culture, Leicester
2 Dec Winter Pitch: Surge Festival Club, Glasgow
2 Dec Club Silly Political Conference Party, Brixton, London
2-3 Dec Dunster by Candlelight
3 Dec Flame Oz, Bell Square, Hounslow
3 Dec Sparks on the Streets, Slough
3-22 Dec Woolly Hat Fair: 12 Days of Christmas, Winchester
6 Dec Mistletoe and Muesli: Breakfast with ISAN, London
9-18 Dec Lightwaves, Salford Quays
10 Dec Winterfest, Roehampton
16-23 Dec The Paradise Tree: Alnwick Garden
17 Dec Festive Road: Parraffinalia, Milton Keynes
17 Dec Digitalarti: Loplite, Bell Square, Hounslow
21 Dec Burning the Clocks, Brighton