Festival & Performance Listings 2020

This is a regularly updated list of 2020 festivals, performances and programmes which include some element of Outdoor Arts.

Coronavirus – as and when we hear that an event is definitely cancelled or rescheduled, we will indicate below. If you have any missing information, please share with us.

It also includes the occasional indoor or non-sector event which relates to artists or other parts of the Outdoor Arts sector. Something to add? Let us know: info@outdoorartsuk.org

Jan

8 Jan-2 Feb London International Mime Festival
8-26 Jan Sydfest, Sydney, Australia
16 Jan Light Night, Worcester
16-25 Jan Canary Wharf Winter Lights, London
17-19 Jan The Western Australian Circus Festival
18 Jan RISE (Brent 2020), Wembley Park
18 Jan Lantern Making Workshop, Tunbridge Wells
19 Jan Lantern Making Workshop, Tunbridge Wells
22 Jan-1 Mar Lightopia Festival, Chiswick House, London
23 Jan-16 Feb Bread&Circus World Buskers Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
24-27 Jan Auckland Buskers Festival, New Zealand
25 Jan Lantern Making Workshop, Tunbridge Wells
26 Jan Chinese New Year Parade, London
26 Jan Lantern Making Workshop, Tunbridge Wells

Feb

1 Feb Lantern Making Workshop, Tunbridge Wells
8 Feb Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony
8 Feb Tunbridge Wells Winter Lantern Parade
1-23 Feb Copenhagen Light Festival
1-23 Feb Light Up Cheltenham
6-9 Feb Winter Light Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
7-8 Feb Light Night Nottingham
7 Feb Plankton at Nottingham Light Night
7 Feb-1 Mar Perth Festival, Australia
7-8 Feb Grow Festival, Corby
7-16 Feb CirkusMania, Stockholm, Sweden
9-15 Feb Cirkopolis, Prague
13-15 Feb Love Light Festival, Norwich
14-23 Feb Festival of Light, Westquay Southampton
16-17 Feb STRTFSTVL, Utrecht, Netherlands
20-22 Feb Light Up Poole
21 Feb Illuminate Oldham
23-25 Feb Binche Carnival, Belgium
28 Feb-8 Mar Spring Dance Festival, Oxford
28 Feb-15 Mar Adelaide Festival, Australia

Mar

1 Mar St David’s Day Parade, Cardiff
5-8 Mar Light Up Leicester
5-8 Mar Liberty UK Festival, Leicester
5-22 Mar Izmir International Puppet Days, Turkey [Selected cancellations]
7 Mar Spilsby Light Night
7 Mar Digital Light: Code Makers at Bletchley Park
6-9 Mar ‘As the World Tipped’ (Wired Aerial), WomAdelaide, Australia
8 Mar st-ARTS Festival, Netherlands
8 Mar Ragadawn, Nimmo’s Pier, Galway, Ireland
13-17 Mar Dublin St. Patrick’s Festival, Ireland
13-17 Mar Cork St. Patrick’s Festival, Ireland [Cancelled]
14-17 Mar Savage Beauty, Galway, Ireland [Cancelled]
14-17 Mar ‘Circus Devilment’ (Tumble Circus) Dublin, Ireland [Cancelled]
15 Mar London St. Patrick’s Day Festival [Cancelled]
17 Mar Waterford St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
17 Mar Sligo St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
17 Mar Galway St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
17 Mar Limerick St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
17 Mar Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
17 Mar Cork St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Ireland [Cancelled]
21 Mar ‘A Practically Perfect Picnic’ (Appetite), Stoke-on-Trent [Rescheduled: tbc]
25 Mar Artwalk, Wakefield [Cancelled]
26-27 Mar Wakefield Fire Garden (Walk the Plank) [Rescheduled: tbc]
26-29 Mar Not Quite Light Festival, Salford [Rescheduled: 24 Oct]
26-29 Mar Mostra Igualada, Spain [Suspended]
27 Mar-14 Jun Festival Tweetakt Utrecht, Netherlands [Cancelled]

Apr

4 Apr Streets of Battle [Cancelled]
10-12 Apr City of Wings, Ypres, Belgium [Cancelled]
10-13 Apr Freemantle Street Arts Festival, Australia [Cancelled]
18-19 Apr Sandbach Transport Festival [Postponed]
19 Apr Mela in the City, London [Cancelled]
23-26 Apr Sismògraf Dance Festival, Spain
25 Apr Streets of Bexhill [Cancelled]
25 Apr Atmosphere Festival, Worcester [Cancelled]

May

1-3 May Puppet Theatre Fair of Lleida, Spain
1-31 May Brighton Fringe [Postponed]
1-3 May Lyme Regis Fossil Festival [Postponed]
1-3 May Ansan Street Arts Festival, Ansan, South Korea
1-9 May Galway Theatre Festival [Cancelled]
2 May Streets of Battle [Cancelled]
2-3 May Sweeps Festival, Rochester [Cancelled]
2-17 May Wye Valley River Festival [Postponed: Autumn]
2-24 May Brighton Festival [Cancelled]
8-9 May Hereford River Carnival [Rescheduled: 4-5 Sep]
8-10 May River Festival Liverpool [Cancelled]
8-24 May Wandsworth Arts Fringe [Cancelled]
8-24 May Norfolk & Norwich Festival [Cancelled]
9-17 May Get Creative Festival, UK (#GetCreativeAtHome)
17 May The Great British Baarat, Liverpool
13-17 May Festival Les 3 Elephants, Laval, France
12-17 May Festival Cluny Danse, France
14-17 May Umore Azoka, Spain
14-17 May Fira Trapezi Reus, Catalonia, Spain
14-17 May AND Festival, Manchester River Canal [Postponed]
15 May Light Night Liverpool [Postponed]
16 May Focus on Rainham [Cancelled]
16-24 May Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle, Valladolid
16 May-14 Jun Nottingham Puppet Festival [Postponed: tbc]
20-31 May Edinburgh International Children’s Festival [Cancelled]
22 May-7 Jun Bath Fringe
22 May-6 Jun Salisbury International Arts Festival [Cancelled]
23 May Family Day at Edinburgh International Children’s Festival [Cancelled]
23 May Streets of Bexhill [Cancelled]
23 May Oldham Festival of Transport
24 May Canal Festival Time Machine, Scotland
24 May Work and Play Scrapstore, Hazelfest
28-31 May Imaginarius, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
28 May-29 Jun Grenoble Street Arts Fest, France
29-30 May Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow [Postponed: tbc]
29 May-7 Jun B-Side Hip Hop Festival, Birmigham

Jun

1-24 Jun Birmingham International Dance Festival [Postponed: tbc]
2 Jun Leicester Riverside Festival
3-7 Jun Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland [Cancelled]
2 Jun-11 Jul LIFT Festival, London [Cancelled]
6 Jun Wentworth Festival, Rotherham
6-7 Jun ‘Jingah!’, Nottingham Puppet Festival [Postponed: tbc]
6-7 Jun Art in the Park, Milton Keynes
9-14 Jun tête-à-tête International Street Festival, Rastatt, Germany [Cancelled]
10-28 Jun Waterloo Festival, London [Moved online]
11 Jun The Kilburn High, London
11-14 Jun Eden Festival, Lockerbie
12-14 Jun Holmfirth Arts Festival [Postponed: 18-20 Sep]
12-21 Jun Cork Midsummer Festival, Ireland
12-21 Jun Oerol, Netherlands
12-21 Jun Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania
13-14 Jun Dickens Festival, Chatham [Cancelled]
14 Jun Diss Carnival & Fun Day
17 Jun-9 Jul ‘The Tempest’, S hakespeare in the Squares, London
18-21 Jun La Strada, Bremen, Germany
18-28 Jun Barnaby Festival Macclesfield
19 Jun-4 Jul Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, London [Postponed: 28 Aug-12 Sep]
19 Jun-4 Jul BE Festival, Birmingham
20 Jun Eastleigh Unwrapped
21 Jun Manchester Day
24-28 Jun Glastonbury Festival [Cancelled]
24-28 Jun Offbeat Festival, Oxford [Cancelled]
26-28 Jun Festival Vivacité, France
26-28 Jun Imagine Watford
26 Jun-5 Jul Bradford Literature Festival
26 Jun-12 Jul Basingstoke Festival
27 Jun-12 Jul Irish Aerial Dance Fest, Letterkenny, Ireland
28 Jun Focus on Walderslade
30 Jun-4 Jul Cratère Surfaces, Alès, France

Jul

1-19 Jul Buxton Festival Fringe
2-5 Jul Merchant City Festival, Glasgow
3-26 Jul Festival d’Avignon, France
3-5 Jul Timber Festival, Feanedock
3-5 Jul Hat Fair, Winchester
3-6 Jul Kelburn Garden Party. Scotland
4 Jul trAction Crewe, Cheshire
4-5 Jul Surge Festival, Scotland
5 Jul Cowley Road Carnival, Oxford
5-19 Jul T100 Walking Festival, UK [Postponed: 12-27 Sep]
6-11 Jul Disrupting the Norm Festival, Worcester
8-12 Jul Henley Festival
10 Jul Waterloo Carnival
10-12 Jul Bradford Festival
10-12 Jul Brazilica Festival, Liverpool
11 Jul St. Leonard’s Festival
11 Jul The Kilburn High [Rescheduled: 2021]
11 Jul Happy Streets Festival, Nine Elms, London
13 Jul TILT Festival, Birmingham
16-19 Jul Latitude Festival
17-19 Jul Bristol Harbour Festival
17-26 Jul IF: Milton Keynes International Festival
18 Jul Taunton Live Art Festival
18 Jul Bridgwater Quayside Festival, Somerset [Postponed: tbc 2021]
18-19 Jul Dundee Summer Streets Festival
18-19 Jul Birmingham Mela
18-19 Jul Lambeth Country Show, London
19 Jul Fleetwood Festival of Transport
20-21 Jul The People’s Tower by Olivier Grossetête
24-26 Jul Cirque Plus, Bruges, Belgium
25 Jul-1 Aug Passage Festival, Helsingør/Helsingborg, Denmark-Sweden
30 Jul-2 Aug Camp Bestival
30 Jul-2 Aug Kendal Calling, Cumbria
30 Jul-2 Aug Stockton International Riverside Festival [Cancelled]
31 Jul-9 Aug Wells Carnival

Aug

1 Aug Leicester Caribbean Carnival
6-16 Aug Theaterfestival Boulevard, Netherlands
6-16 Aug Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland
7-14 Aug Malmöfestivalen, Sweden
8-9 Aug Luton Mela
9 Aug Loughborough Mela
12-16 Aug Boomtown Fair, Winchester
15-16 Aug Gloworm Festival, Thoresby Park
19-22 Aug Festival d’Aurillac, France
20-23 Aug Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
21-23 Aug Just So Festival, Cheshire
23-30 Aug Spoffin Festival, Amersfoort, Netherlands
25-26 Aug Newcastle Mela
27-30 Aug Shambala Festival
28 Aug – 12 Sep Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, London [NEW DATES]
28-31 Aug Greenbelt Festival, Kettering
28-31 Aug Towersey Festival
29-30 Aug London Mela
29-31 Aug Journeys Dance Festival, Rother
30-31 Aug Notting Hill Carnival, London
30-31 Aug Devizes International Street Festival
30-31 Aug Nottingham Carnival
31 Aug Leeds Carnival Parade

Sep

1-30 Sep Totally Thames, London
2-6 Sep Freedom Festival, Hull
4-5 Sep Hereford River Carnival
5-13 Sep b-side festival, Portland
6 Sep Festival of the Sky, Cleethorpes
10-13 Sep FiraTàrrega, Spain
12-13 Sep Festival of Thrift, Redcar
11-27 Sep Inside Out Dorset Festival
12 Sep All in the Mind Festival, Basingstoke
12 Sep Will Adams Festival at Gillingham Park, Kent
13 Sep Arts Fresco, Market Harborough
18-20 Sep Holmfirth Arts Festival [NEW DATES]
18-20 Sep Lancashire Encounter
18 Sep-18 Oct Estuary, Thames Estuary
19-20 Sep Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth
25-26 Sep Derby Festé
25-27 Sep Arts by the Sea, Bournemouth

Oct

3-4 Oct Fun Palaces, UK
7-9 Oct FreshStreet #4, Turin, Italy
9-11 Oct Hiddendoor, Edinburgh
10 Oct Hastings Borough Bonfire Night
10 Oct-1 Nov Magic Woodland, Cheshire
15-18 Oct Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, Spain
16-25 Oct Bloomsbury Festival
24 Oct Not Quite Light Festival, Salford
28 Oct-1 Nov Spill Festival, Ipswich

Nov

12-15 Nov National Circus Festival of Ireland, Tralee

Dec

4-5 Dec Dunster by Candlelight