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
13-16 Apr Circus Convention: The State of the Art, Newcastle-under-Lyme
17-18 Apr Circus Conference: The State of Play, Newcastle-under-Lyme
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-6 Jul IUGTE International Summer School of Physical Theatre, Retzhof Castle, Austria
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