Outdoor Arts Listings 2018
This is an archive list of 2018 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
- 6-28 Jan Sydney Festival, Australia
- 10 Jan-3 Feb London International Mime Festival
- 16-27 Jan Canary Wharf Winter Lights, London
- 18-21 Jan Lumiere London
- 18-28 Jan World Buskers Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 22 Jan Clore Leadership Programme Open Event, OutdoorArtsUK HQ, London
- 26 Jan Déda OffSite Workshop: Touring, Birmingham
- 26 Jan-18 Feb Carnival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Feb
- 8-11 Feb Spectra, Aberdeen
- 8-25 Feb A Mile in My Shoes: Empathy Museum, Lambeth, London
- 9 Feb-4 Mar Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
- 10-18 Feb TPAM Performing Arts Meeting, Yokohama
- 15-17 Feb Light Up Poole
- 16 Feb Without Walls Seminar: Promoting, touring and pricing outdoor work, London
- 16 Feb Symposium: Wales – a Diverse Arts Scene?, Mold
- 16-18 Feb Festival Llum, Barcelona, Spain
- 17 Feb White Night, Melbourne
- 19-23 Feb APAM Australian Performing Arts Market, Brisbane
- 20 & 22 Feb Walk Like Natives (Wiretapper), London
- 21 Feb EEA Artist’s Snap, Greenwich London
- 22 Feb-28 Mar Illuminated River, London
- 23 Feb 15 Years of Silly Ideas, Brixton, London
- 23 Feb Déda OffSite Workshop: Dramaturgy, Derby
- 23-25 Feb Just So Festival, New Zealand
- 26 Feb EEA Open Day, Greenwich London
- 28 Feb-1 Mar The Event Production Show, London
Mar
- 2-4 Mar NASA: For The Love of It, Salford
- 2-18 Mar Adelaide Festival, Australia
- 2-31 Mar Silk River Exhibition (Kinetika), Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
- 8-9 Mar Rear View Revealed: IOU Theatre, Halifax
- 8-28 Mar D-CAF, Cairo, Egypt
- 9 Mar D&D: Socially Engaged Arts, King’s Cross, London
- 9-10 Mar Articulture Gathering, Aberystwyth, Wales
- 12 Mar EEA Artist’s Itch, Greenwich London
- 13-15 Mar Circostrada: Fresh Circus #4, Brussels
- 13 Mar D&D: Borders, Clapham, London
- 15-16 Mar Cultural Transformations: The Impacts of Hull City of Culture 2017, Hull
- 16-19 Mar St Patrick’s Festival, Dublin
- 17 Mar White Night, Ballarat, Australia
- 17-18 Mar Tunnel Visions: Array, Beech Street, London
- 22 Mar Uncommon Ground, The Lowry, Salford
- 22 Mar The Dance WE Made (Casson & Friends), Barbican Centre, London
- 22-25 Mar Nottingham Puppet Festival
- 23-24 Mar Urban Visions (D-CAF), Cairo, Egypt
- 23-24 Mar Shop Front Festival, Coventry
- 23 Mar-2 Apr Feast of Fire at St George’s, Liverpool
- 23 Mar Déda OffSite Workshop: Pitching Your Work, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- 28 Mar-21 Apr NoFit State Circus: Lexicon, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- 29 Mar-2 Apr Freemantle International Street Arts Festival, Australia
- 30 Mar-15 Apr Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Apr
- 2 Apr Enter Edem: Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire
- 3-27 Apr Circusfest, Roundhouse, London
- 3 Apr D&D: Better Allies, Rich Mix, London
- 4-7 Apr Limerick Fringe
- 5-7 Apr The Hunting of the Snark, Haldon Forest, Devon
- 5-15 Apr London Games Festival
- 6-8 Apr De Gevleugelde Stad Leper; City of Wings, Ypres
- 6-8 Apr Settle Stories Festival
- 7 Apr D&D: Arts in Sutton
- 10 Apr Norfolk Spring Fling
- 12-15 Apr Rear View: IOU Theatre, The Piece Hall, Halifax
- 12-15 Apr La Mostra d’Igualada, Igualada, Spain
- 12-16 Apr Backstreet Festival, Alexandria, Egypt
- 17 Apr Creative & Cultural Skills Conference: Building a Creative Nation, Salford
- 18 Apr The Big Meet: Arts & Place, London
- 18 Apr-14 May Aerial Beginners Class, Great Yarmouth
- 19 Apr EXplore: Irish Street Arts Circus and Spectacle Annual Seminar, Dublin
- 19-21 Apr The Hunting of the Snark, Sutton Manor, Cheshire
- 19-22 Apr Sismògraf, Olot, Spain
- 20 Apr St Katherine Dock Tea Dance
- 21 Apr Outdoor Dance – a Masterclass with Southpaw Dance’s Robby Graham, Bournemouth
- 22 Apr SpareParts Festival (Sandbach Transport Festival), Cheshire
- 27 Apr Circus: Past Present Future Late, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- 28 Apr Drill House Tea Dance, Great Yarmouth
May
- 2-6 May Circusstad Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 3-5 May The Hunting of the Snark, Hamsterley, County Durham
- 3 May-30 Sep Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 4 May Trampoline Masterclass with Max Calaf Seve, Great Yarmouth
- 4 May The Band at the End of the World (Ramshacklicious), Newbury
- 4-5 May Hereford River Carnival
- 4-13 May Battersea Circus Garden, London
- 4-20 May Wandsworth Arts Fringe, London
- 5 May Belly of the Whale (Ockham’s Razor), Stratford East
- 5 May Burnsfest, South Ayrshire, Scotland
- 5-8 May Rear View: IOU Theatre, Brighton Festival
- 5-20 May The Wye Valley River Festival
- 5-27 May Brighton Festival
- 10 May Elevate Workshop: Tim Hill – Instruments of Joy, Salford
- 10 May Elevate Talk: Tim Hill – A Joyful Noise, Salford
- 10-13 May Fira Trapezi, Reus, Spain
- 10-13 May Appetite: Circolombia’s Acéléré, Clough Hall Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- 11 May Ragroof Players Masterclass, Great Yarmouth
- 11-13 May Fêtes le pont… à la plage, La Rochelle, France
- 11-27 May Norfolk & Norwich Festival
- 12 May Drill House Tea Dance, Great Yarmouth
- 12-13 May Shademakers Hullabaloo, Isle of Wight
- 12-13 May Festival of Making, Blackburn
- 15 May The Fabularium: Reynard the Fox, Encore Festival, Coventry
- 17-18 May Elevate Workshop: FIRETER – Character Creation, Salford
- 17 May Elevate Talk: Creating FIRETER ensemble, Salford
- 17-20 May Umore Azoka, Leioa, Spain
- 18 May LightNight Liverpool
- 18-21 May Bildstörung, Detmold, Germany
- 19 May Happy Feet (Ragroof Players), Brighton Festival
- 19-20 May The Garden Party, Norfolk & Norwich Festival
- 19-27 May Festival Internacional Teatro y Artes de Calle, Valladolid, Spain
- 20 May-2 Jun Gandini Juggling Workshops, London
- 21-22 May Elevate Workshop: Guérassim Dichliev – Visual Theatre & Mime, Salford
- 21-26 May Wayfaring (And Now / Activate), Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
- 22 May Elevate Talk & Performance: Guérassim Dichliev – Out of Place, Salford
- 23 May EEA Artist’s Snap, Greenwich, London
- 23-25 May AMA Small Scale Development Programme, Leeds
- 24-26 May Imaginarius Festival, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
- 24-26 May Friction(s), Annemasse, France
- 25-26 May Whitley Bay Carnival
- 25-28 May Geronimo Festival, Arley Hall
- 25 May-10 Jun Bath Fringe Festival
- 26 May A Weekend Without Walls, Easthill Park, Brighton
- 26 May Elevate Workshop: Edward Taylor (WRAS) – Drawing Stories, Salford
- 26 May Wild Learning: Parts Unknown (Sarah Gillett), Brigstock
- 26 May Happy Feet (Ragroof Players), Brighton Festival
- 26 May-22 Jul LIFT, London
- 26 May-2 Sep Harmonic (Cirque Bijou) Temperate House, Kew Gardens, London
- 27 May A Weekend Without Walls, Beach, Brighton
- 29 May-3 Jun tête-a-tête, Rastatt, Germany
- 30 May-2 Sep Celebrating Sanger: 70 Years a Showman, Newbury
- 31 May Elevate Workshop: Natalie Hunt (Madame Zucchini) – The incredible lightness of being (funny), Salford
- 31 May-3 Jun Swamp Circus Camp, Cornwall
Jun
- 1-24 Jun Birmingham International Dance Festival
- 1-3 Jun Stamp! Festival, Hamburg, Germany
- 1-10 Jun Gandini Juggling Workshops, Manchester
- 1 Jun-24 Aug The Tempest, Oddsocks on tour
- 2 Jun Celebrating Sanger: Carnival of the Animals, Newbury
- 2-3 Jun Bedlam Fair, Bath
- 2-3 Jun Riverside Festival, Leicester
- 3 Jun Outdoor Arts On the Road: Bath
- 6 Jun Family Arts Leadership Symposium, Leeds
- 6-9 Jun Gassensensationen, Heppenheim, Germany
- 6-10 Jun Carlow Arts Festival
- 7 Jun-24 Aug Romeo and Juliet, Oddsocks on tour
- 7-10 Jun Eden Festival, Lockerbie
- 8-17 Jun Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania
- 9 Jun Great Yarmouth Festival and Festa Fiesta
- 9 Jun Cosi Fan Tutte (Baseless Fabric Theatre), Mitcham, London Borough of Merton
- 9 Jun What am I Worth (Extraordinary Bodies), Carlow Arts Festival
- 9-10 Jun Night of Festivals, Hounslow
- 10 Jun Processions (Artichoke / 14-18 Now), Belfast / Cardiff / Edinburgh / London
- 11-17 Jun Crystal Palace Overground Festival, London
- 13-18 Jun Vertical Dance Forum, Limerick
- 14-15 Jun Creative People and Places Conference, Wolverhampton
- 14-17 Jun Holmfirth Arts Festival
- 15-17 Jun No Man’s Land, Oxfordshire
- 15-24 Jun Oerol Festival, Netherlands
- 15-24 Jun Cork Midsummer Festival
- 15 Jun-8 Jul Basingstoke Festival
- 16 Jun Somerfest, Taunton
- 16 June Fusion Street Festival, Gravesend
- 16 Jun-1 Jul Gandini Juggling Workshops, Bristol
- 17 Jun Manchester Day: The Word on the Street
- 18 Jun Picnic in the Park, Cork
- 19 Jun Arts Council England- Project Grants Support, Déda, Derby
- 19-24 Jun Mirabella, Fossano, Italy
- 20 Jun Fillage (Sur Mesure), Hayes Outdoor
- 20 Jun-28 Jul The Tempest (Iris Theatre), Covent Garden, London
- 21 Jun-7 Jul Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, London
- 21 Jun-24 Jun GDIF / OutdoorArtsUK Festival Hub, London
- 21-23 Jun Fly by Night at GDIF (Duke Riley / 14-18 Now / GDIF), Thamesmead
- 21 Jun-22 Jul Bromsgrove Festival
- 22 Jun Tilbury Docker (Kinetika), Windrush Celebrations, Tilbury Cruise Terminal
- 22 Jun-9 Sep Great Exhibition of the North, NewcastleGateshead
- 23 Jun Eastleigh Unwrapped
- 23-24 Jun Imagine Luton
- 23-24 Jun Ashbourne StreetFest
- 24 Jun OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Greenwich
- 24 Jun Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade
- 24 Jun-10 Jul Irish Aerial Dance Festival, Letterkenny
- 26-28 Jun Even the Stones, Jackson’s Lane, London
- 26-30 Jun Performing Places, Bexley
- 26 Jun-1 Jul Mirabella, Busca, Italy
- 26 Jun-2 Jul South Norwood Community Festival
- 27 Jun-22 Jul Tollwood Sommer Festival, Munich, Germany
- 28 Jun Practice Place Purpose, Exeter
- 28 Jun-14 Jul Stafford Festival Shakespeare 2018: Macbeth
- 28-30 Jun ViaThea, Görlitz, Germany
- 28 Jun-1 Jul Zsolnay Light Festival, Hungary
- 29 Jun-1 Jul Hat Fair, Winchester
- 29 Jun-1 Jul Imagine Watford
- 29 Jun-15 Jul SouthWestFest, London
- 30 Jun The Homecoming (Appetite), Newcastle-under-Lyme
- 30 Jun D-Construction (Cie Dyptik), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 30 Jun St Leonards Festival
- 30 Jun-1 Jul Geronimo Festival, Knebworth House
- 30 Jun-8 Jul Discover, Play, Dream: Dance!, PDSW, Bournemouth
- 30 Jun-1 Jul This is Not for You (Graeae Theatre / 14-18 Now), London
Jul
- 1 Jul Tunbridge Wells Mela Festival
- 1 Jul Boishakhi Mela
- 1-22 Jul Ready Steady Lift Off (EEA), London
- 3-22 Jul 100: Unearth (Wildworks / 14-18 Now), Cornwall
- 3-7 Jul BE Festival, Birmingham
- 3-8 Jul Nowhere Festival, Spain
- 3 Jul-18 Aug The Three Musketeers (The Dukes), Williamson Park, Lancaster
- 4-14 Jul Lichfield Festival
- 4 Jul Block (Motionhouse / NoFit State), High Point Village, Hayes
- 5-8 Jul Mouth of the Tyne Festival
- 6-7 Jul FutureFest, Tobacco Dock, London
- 6-8 Jul Deventer Op Stelten, Netherlands
- 6-9 Jul Timber, The National Forest, Feanedock
- 6-24 Jul Festival d’Avignon, France
- 7 Jul Lewisham Peoples Day
- 7 Jul Newham Carnival
- 7 Jul Shipwrecks (Citrus Arts), Pop Up Party, Mid Rhondda
- 7 Jul SpareParts Festival (trAction Festival), Crewe
- 7 Jul World of Folk at Cleckheaton Folk Festival
- 7 Jul Steli (Stalker Teatro), Mountsfield Park
- 7 Jul Lifeboat (Institute for Crazy Dancing), Fairlop Waters Country Park
- 7 Jul Pop Up Party, Cambrian Lakeside, Clydach Vale
- 7-8 Jul Taliesin Dance Days, Swansea
- 7-8 Jul B Love Festival, Basingstoke
- 7-22 Jul 100 Recipes Walking Festival, Thurrock
- 9-12 Jul Open House, BST, Hyde Park, London
- 10-29 Jul Kleines Fest im Großen Garten, Hannover, Germany
- 11-14 Jul The Sunderland Tall Ships Races
- 11-13 Jul Surge Exploring Street Performance Masterclass, Dundee
- 11-15 Jul MAPAS, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
- 11-15 Jul Henley Festival
- 11-12 Jul What am I Worth? (Extraordinary Bodies), Sunderland Tall Ships
- 12-19 Jul Milton Keynes Festival Fringe
- 12-15 Jul Latitude Festival, Suffolk
- 12-15 Jul Scènes de Rue, Mulhouse, France
- 13 Jul Waterloo Carnival, London
- 13 Jul Portolan (Cirque Bijou), Sunderland Tall Ships
- 13-14 Jul Shipwrecks (Citrus Arts), Tall Ships Festival, Sunderland
- 13-15 Jul Bradford Festival
- 13-22 Jul Over Het Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 14 Jul Thamesmead 50th Birthday Festival
- 14 Jul The Legend of The Burning Man (Insectropics), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 14-15 Jul Birmingham Mela
- 14-15 Jul Summer in Southside, Birmingham
- 14-17 Jul Miramiro, Gent, Belgium
- 15 Jul Croydon International Mela
- 15 Jul SpareParts Festival (Fleetwood Festival of Transport), Fleetwood
- 16-22 Jul TILT18, Birmingham
- 16 Jul The Tempest (Oddsocks), Canary Wharf, London
- 17-21 Jul Wayfaring (And Now /Activate) Basildon Park, Reading
- 18 Jul Trolleys (C-12 Dance Theatre), Hayes Outdoor
- 18-21 July Sense and Sensibility (Brighton Little Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 18-22 Jul East Wall (Hofesh Shechter Company / East London Dance / LIFT), Tower of London
- 18-22 Jul Chalons dans la Rue, France
- 19-22 Jul Blue Dot Festival, Cheshire
- 19-22 Jul Festiwal Na Wolnym Powietrzu, Poznan, Poland
- 19-28 Jul Refract:18, Waterside Arts, Manchester
- 20-22 Jul Bristol Harbour Festival
- 20-22 Jul The Circus Playground (Cirque Bijou), Bristol Harbour Festival
- 20-22 Jul National Theatre River Stage (Home Manchester), London
- 20-29 Jul IF Milton Keynes International Festival
- 21 Jul Kaleidoscope Festival, London
- 21 Jul Circus Brunch & Debate, TILT Festival, Birmingham
- 21 Jul La Cocina Publica (Teatro Container), Tilbury
- 21 Jul Bridgwater Quayside Festival
- 21-22 Jul Dundee Summer Streets Festival
- 21-22 Jul Lambeth Country Show, London
- 21-22 Jul Manchester Mega Mela
- 21-22 Jul Grow Festival, Corby
- 21-22 Jul Big Splash, Newport
- 21 Jul Taunton Live’s Big Saturday
- 21 Jul International Busking Day, Wembley Park, London
- 22 Jul Shipwrecks (Citrus Arts), Big Splash Festival, Newport
- 23 Jul Romeo and Juliet (The Handlebards), Canary Wharf, London
- 25-28 Jul Frankenstein (Sisata), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 25 Jul-5 Aug Rain or Shine Festival (Theatre Deli), Camberwell
- 25 Jul-12 Aug Cubitt Sessions, Kings Cross, London
- 25 Jul-26 Aug Rain or Shine Festival (Theatre Deli), Sheffield
- 26 Jul Your Oldham Festival
- 26-29 Jul Camp Bestival, Dorset
- 26-29 Jul Internationales Straßentheaterfestival, Ludwigshafen, Germany
- 26-29 Jul Kendal Calling
- 26-29 July Caravanserai (Cirque Bijou) Camp Bestival, Dorset
- 27 Jul-4 Aug La Strada, Graz, Austria
- 27-28 Jul DNFesival Summer, Doncaster
- 27-28 Jul Appetite presents Voalá Station (Voalá), Stoke-on-Trent
- 27-29 Jul National Theatre River Stage (Sadler’s Wells), London
- 28 Jul Charged (Progression Company / GLYPT), Woolwich, London
- 28 Jul Sigma (Gandini Juggling and Seeta Patel Dance Co), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 28 Jul OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Doncaster
- 28-29 Jul Circus Sampler (Far From the Norm / Marawa the Amazing / Crying Out Loud), Somerset House, London
- 29 Jul Project_Vee (Pangottic / Circus Geeks), Cubitt Sessions, Kings Cross, London
Aug
- 1 Aug Lance Moi En L’Air (Joli Vyann), Hayes Outdoor
- 1 Aug Look Up (Hikapee), Theatre Deli, Camberwell
- 1 Aug The Best of All Possible Worlds (WRAS / Creative Scene), Oakwell Hall, West Yorks
- 1-4 Aug The Importance of Being Earnest (JW Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 2-5 Aug Bestival, Dorset
- 2-5 Aug Stockton International Riverside Festival
- 2-4 Aug The Exploded Circus (Mimbre), Grosvenor Square, London
- 2-3 Aug This is Not for You (Graeae Theatre / 14-18 Now), Stockton-upon-Tees
- 2-5 Aug Caravanserai & Finale (Cirque Bijou), Bestival, Dorset
- 2-5 Aug Swallows and Amazons (JW Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 2-12 Aug Festival 2018, Glasgow
- 2-20 Aug Theaterfestival Boulevard s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- 2-22 Aug Guerrilla Arts: Changing Spaces with Public Art, Wembley
- 2 Aug-2 Sep The Three Musketeers (Iris Theatre), Covent Garden, London
- 3-5 Aug Waterford Spraoi International Street Arts Festival, Ireland
- 3-5 Aug National Theatre River Stage (Nonclassical), London
- 4 Aug Redfest, Bristol
- 4 Aug Leicester Caribbean Carnival
- 4-5 Aug What am I Worth (Extraordinary Bodies), Festival 2018, Glasgow
- 4-5 Aug Zee Luton Mela
- 4-5 Aug Circus Sampler (Gandini Juggling / Circa Tsuïca / Crying Out Loud), Somerset House, London
- 6 Aug The Importance of Being Earnest (The Pantaloons), Canary Wharf, London
- 6-18 Aug El Danseu Festival, Les Piles, Spain
- 7 Aug Shipwrecks (Citrus Arts), Aberystwyth Arts Centre
- 8-11 Aug Animal Farm (Brighton Little Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 8-12 Aug Limburg Festival, Netherlands
- 8 Aug-2 Sep The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / King Arthur (Gods and Monsters Theatre), The Scoop, London
- 9-12 Aug Merchant City Festival, Glasgow
- 9-12 Aug Theater op de Markt, Hasselt, Belgium
- 10-12 Aug Surge Festival, Glasgow
- 10-12 Aug National Theatre River Stage (National), London
- 10-11 Aug What am I Worth (Extraordinary Bodies), National Theatre River Stage, London
- 10 Aug Toscatastrophe (Tête à Tête Festival), Kings Cross, London
- 11 Aug Steli (Stalker Teatro), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 11 Aug Belly of the Whale (Ockham’s Razor / Circulate), Griffin Square, Deptford
- 11 Aug Saurus (Close Act / Circulate), Royal Victoria Gardens, North Woolwich
- 11 Aug Once Upon a Festival, Peterborough
- 11-26 Aug Kidderminster Arts Festival
- 12 Aug OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Glasgow
- 12 Aug Wheelhouse / Frantic (Acrojou), Cubitt Sessions, Kings Cross, London
- 13 Aug A Woman of No Importance (Dot Productions), Canary Wharf, London
- 14 Aug Measure for Measure (Changeling Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 15 Aug Ile O (Cie Barolosolo / Circulate), Hayes Outdoor
- 15 Aug Blithe Spirit (Changeling Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 16 Aug Belly of the Whale (Ockhams Razor / Circulate), Enfield Town Library
- 16 Aug Make Your Mela Day, Bradford
- 16-17 Aug The Three Musketeers (IK Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 16-19 Aug Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales
- 17-19 Aug WildChild Festival, Dulwich
- 17-19 Aug Circus 250 Weekend, Southbank Centre, London
- 17-19 Aug Just So Festival, Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
- 17-26 Aug Journeys Festival International (ArtReach), Leicester
- 18 Aug D-Construction (Cie Dyptik / Circulate), Griffin Square, Deptford
- 18 Aug Conseqüències (Cia Moveo / Circulate), Griffin Square, Deptford
- 18 Aug Love’s Labours Lost (Folksy), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 18 Aug Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band, Grosvenor Square, London
- 18-19 Aug Zee London Mela
- 20-26 Aug Viewpoints (Festival of Thrift), Tees Valley
- 21 Aug D-Construction (Cie Dyptik / Circulate), Enfield Town Library
- 21 Aug Little Women (Chapterhouse Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 22 Aug Treasure Island (Boxtree Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 22-25 Aug Festival International de Théâtre de Rue d’Aurillac
- 23 Aug Saurus (Close Act / Circulate), Enfield Town Library
- 23 Aug The Tempest (Oddsocks Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 23-26 Aug Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire
- 23-26 Aug Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- 23-26 Aug Animations / Closing Ceremony (Cirque Bijou), Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire
- 24 Aug Romeo and Juliet (Oddsocks Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 24-26 Aug Big Feast 18 (Appetite), Stoke-on-Trent
- 24 Aug-2 Sep Berlin Circus Festival, Germany
- 24 Aug-2 Sep Carlisle Fringe
- 25 Aug Sodade (Cirque Rouages), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 25 Aug Exo (Motionhouse / Circulate), Griffin Square, Deptford
- 25-27 Aug Notting Hill Carnival, London
- 25-26 Aug bOing! Festival, Canterbury
- 25-27 Aug The Cheeseboard Predicament (Halcyon Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 26-27 Aug Newcastle Mela
- 26-27 Aug Devizes International Street Festival
- 26-27 Aug Boots on the Ground (Tangled Feet), Salisbury
- 27 Aug Celebrating Sanger: Sanger’s World, Newbury
- 27 Aug Shapers (Ex Nihilo), Newbury
- 27-29 Aug Ex Nihilo: Shapers Professional Dance Workshop, 101 Creation Centre, Newbury
- 28 Aug-2 Sep Gorilla Circus, Margate Dreamland
- 29 Aug Devizes Confetti Battle
- 29 Aug Bug ‘n’ Buzz (Cie Concordance), Hayes Outdoor
- 29 Aug Circus Wednesdays: No Fit State Circus and Motionhouse, Margate Dreamland
- 29 Aug-1 Sep The Crucible (Identity Theatre Co), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 30 Aug The Voyage of La Sybille, Copperdollar, Margate Dreamland
- 30 Aug Liberty Unbound, Deptford
- 31 Aug-2 Sep Freedom Festival, Hull
- 31 Aug-2 Sep XTRAX / Freedom Festival Showcase, Hull
- 31 Aug Liberty Unbound, Enfield
- 31 Aug-2 Sep SO Festival, Skegness
Sep
- 1-30 Sep Totally Thames, London
- 1 Sep Liberty Unbound, Hounslow
- 1 Sep Hartlepool Waterfront Festival
- 2 Sep The Railway Children (Heartbreak Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 4-5 Sep Unlimited: The Symposium, London
- 6-9 Sep FiraTàrrega, Spain
- 6-9 Sep Festival No. 6, Portmeirion
- 7-8 Sep Too Many Cooks (Handmade Theatre), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 7-9 Sep ZirkArt Festival, Forchheim, Germany
- 7-9 Sep Lakes Alive
- 8 Sep Exo (Motionhouse / Circulate), Millfield Theatre Car Park, Enfield
- 8 Sep OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Tàrrega
- 8 Sep Belly of the Whale (Ockhams Razor / Circulate), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 8-9 Sep In Your Way, Cambridge
- 8-16 Sep b-Side Festival, Isle of Portland
- 12 Sep A Woman of No Importance (Dot Prods), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 13-15 Sep The Hunting of the Snark, Delamere, Cheshire
- 13-16 Sep The Seaside Rocks! Conference & Professional Programme, Great Yarmouth
- 13-22 Sep Wayfaring (And Now / Activate), Dorchester, Dorset
- 14-16 Sep Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth
- 14-16 Sep LLAWN06, Llandudno, Wales
- 14-16 Sep Ring Out (Ray Lee / Soundlands), Llandudno, Wales
- 14-22 Sep Inside Out Dorset
- 15 Sep Conseqüències (Cia Moveo / Circulate), Enfield Town Library
- 16 Sep OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Great Yarmouth
- 17-22 Sep Wayfaring (And Now:) Inside Out Dorset Festival, Dorchester
- 17-22 Sep Festival of Imagineers, Coventry
- 18-19 Sep No Entry (Emergency Exit Arts) Greenwich, London
- 20-22 Sep The Hunting of the Snark, Dalby, Yorkshire
- 20-22 Sep Bridge (Imagineer Productions) R&D Showcase, Coventry
- 21 Sep As You Like It (The Pantaloons), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 21 Sep Bridge: A Day of Outdoor Arts and Engineering, Coventry
- 21-22 Sep Life Cycles & Landscapes Seminar, Inside Out Dorset
- 21-23 Sep Cergy Soit, Cergy, France
- 21-23 Sep Lancashire Encounter, Preston
- 22 Sep Museum of the Moon (Luke Jerram) | Orbis (Humanhood), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 22 Sep Fagin? (Kick in the Head), Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 22-23 Sep Festival of Thrift, Redcar
- 22 Sep OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Redcar
- 22-30 Sep Dantza Hirian, San Sebastian, Spain
- 26-30 Sep Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham
- 27-29 Sep Derby Festé
- 29 Sep Batley Festival
- 29 Sep everything that rises must dance (Dance Umbrella), Greenwich Peninsula
- 29 Sep Conseqüències (Cia Moveo / Circulate), Theatre Square, Stratford
- 29 Sep D-Construction (Cie Dyptik / Circulate), Theatre Square, Stratford
- 29 Sep-6 Oct Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival
Oct
- 3-16 Oct Moby Dick (Tin Shed Theatre), Newport Transporter Bridge, Wales
- 4 Oct Walk The Plank Elevate Masterclass – Talk: Firework Display Design
- 4-5 Oct Light Night Leeds
- 4-5 Oct Dr Kronovator’s Fire Laboratory (Emergency Exit Arts), Light Night Leeds
- 4-7 Oct Giant Spectacular, Liverpool
- 4-7 Oct Seoul Street Arts Festival
- 4-14 Oct Journeys Festival International (ArtReach), Manchester
- 5 Oct Wrotham Festival of Light
- 5 Oct The Glass Ceiling (Periplum), Kirkleatham Grounds, Redcar and Cleveland
- 6 Oct The Winter’s Tale (Teatr Biuro Podrozy), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 7 Oct everything that rises must dance (Dance Umbrella), Boxpark, Croydon
- 10 Oct EEA Open Day, Greenwich London
- 11-13 Oct The Hunting of the Snark, Thetford, Norfolk
- 11-14 Oct Festival Signal, Prague, Czech Republic
- 12 Oct Swale Fusion Festival of Light
- 13 Oct everything that rises must dance (Dance Umbrella), Somerset House, London
- 17-21 Oct Bloomsbury Festival
- 18 Oct Walk The Plank Elevate Masterclass – Physical workshop: The Importance of Visual Image In Theatre
- 18-19 Oct Light Up the North Conference, Blackpool
- 19 Oct Dartford Festival of Light
- 19 Oct Roll Up Store Street, Bloomsbury, London
- 19 Oct The Glass Ceiling (Periplum), Ward Jackson Park, Hartlepool
- 19-28 Oct Journeys Festival International (ArtReach), Portsmouth
- 20 Oct-3 Nov Canterbury Festival
- 20 Oct Witness This (Company Chameleon), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 20 Oct Dashehra Diwali Mela finale, (Walk the Plank), Albert Square, Manchester
- 25 Oct Walk The Plank Elevate Masterclass – Practical workshop: Illuminos
- 25-27 Oct Lightpool at Blackpool Illuminations
- 25-27 Oct The Hunting of the Snark, Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent
- 25 Oct-4 Nov Spill Festival of Performance: On Time, Ipswich, Suffolk
- 26 Oct Dynamics of Collaboration Acro Workshop (Compania de Circo Eia), London
- 26-27 Oct Strolling Bones (Walk the Plank), Manchester
- 26 Oct OutdoorArtsUK On the Road: Blackpool
- 27 Oct Africa on the Square, Trafalgar Square, London
- 27 Oct The Winter Droving, Penrith
- 27 Oct The Glass Ceiling (Periplum), Centre Square, Middlesbrough
- 28 Oct Diwali Festival, Trafalgar Square, London
- 28 Oct Diwali Lights Switch On, Leicester
Nov
- 1 Nov Walk The Plank Elevate Masterclass – Practical workshop: Video Production for iPhone
- 1-2 Nov Social Art Summit, Sheffield
- 2-3 Nov Ally Pally’s Firework Festival (with Cirque Bijou and The Bullzini Family), London
- 3 Nov Blackheath Fireworks Display (Emergency Exit Arts), London
- 3 Nov Abbey Park Bonfire, Leicester
- 3 Nov Diwali Festival of Light, National Maritime Museum, London
- 3 Nov Exo (Motionhouse / Circulate), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 4 Nov Light Up the Night, Wembley Park
- 4 Nov Dr Kronovator’s Fire Laboratory (Emergency Exit Arts), Wembley
- 5 Nov Southwark Fireworks Display (Emergency Exit Arts), London
- 7 Nov Diwali Day, Leicester
- 8 Nov Devoted and Disgruntled: 101 Creation Centre, Newbury
- 8-11 Nov National Circus Festival of Ireland, Tralee
- 9-11 Nov Association of Festival Organisers Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon
- 9-11 Nov Boots On The Ground (Tangled Feet), Dulwich Park, London
- 9-25 Nov Enchanted Woodland, Syon Park, London
- 12 Nov Paper Peace (Emergency Exit Arts), London
- 14-15 Nov Paper Peace (Emergency Exit Arts), Dewsbury
- 15 Nov Walk The Plank Elevate Masterclass – Practical workshop: Colour and Texture Through Textiles
- 15 Nov-30 Dec After Dark at Chiswick House, London
- 16-24 Nov DN Light Night Festival, Doncaster
- 16 Nov Gravesham Festival of Light
- 16 Nov, Paper Peace (Emergency Exit Arts), Stoke-on-Trent
- 17 Nov Winter Lights (Same Sky), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 17-18 Nov Paper Peace (Emergency Exit Arts), Nottingham
- 19-20 Nov Paper Peace (Emergency Exit Arts), Peterborough
- 22 Nov The Power of the Possible: a Day of Outdoor Arts, Glasgow
- 22 Nov The Christmas Dream Machine (Emergency Exit Arts), Middlesbrough
- 22 Nov-5 Jan Christmas at Kew, London
- 23-24 Nov One Dance UK Conference, Leeds
- 23 Nov-23 Dec The Lanterns at Chester Zoo (Wild Rumpus)
- 23 Nov-1 Jan Magical Lantern Festival Birmingham 2018
- 28-29 Nov Fundraising Now Conference, London
- 28 Nov-5 Jan Alice in Winterland, Southwark, London
- 29 Nov Walk The Plank Masterclass: Building A Creative Presence on Social Media
- 30 Nov The Unlikely Collaborators – Unpicking Commissioning, Devizes
- 30 Nov Devizes Lantern Parade & Christmas Market
- 30 Nov XTRAX / Freedom Festival: Do you wanna come outside and play?, Hull
Dec
- 1 Dec The Invasion (Ljud), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 4-9 Dec Enchanted Parks, Saltwell Park, Gateshead
- 6-30 Dec Enchanted Audley End, Saffron Waldon
- 6-22 Dec Enchanted Belsay, Northumberland
- 6-22 Dec Enchanted Brodsworth, Doncaster
- 6-22 Dec Enchanted Eltham, London
- 6-22 Dec Enchanted Witley, Worcestershire
- 7 Dec Innovator’s Imaginarium (Emergency Exit Arts), Southwark, London
- 7-8 Dec Dunster by Candlelight
- 7-16 Dec Lightwaves, Salford
- 8 Dec We Are Still Here (Simon Mckeown), St Helens
- 11 Dec Preparing for Evaluation – a new course from ArtReach, Leicester
- 15 Dec Saurus (Close Act / Circulate), Bell Square, Hounslow
- 16 Dec Festival of Light Lantern Procession, Newbury