Festival & Performance Listings

WOW! Fest, Walsall

WOW! Fest – A Celebration of Outdoor Dance & Performance WOW! Fest (Walsall Outdoor Wonders Festival) is an exciting new outdoor arts festival celebrating the best dance and movement-based performances created in the Midlands. Taking place on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July 2026 at Walsall’s Arboretum Park, this vibrant two-day event will bring toget More

Frome Festival 2026, Frome

Save the Date for next year’s festival: Fri 3 – sun 12 July 2026. More

An Indian Summer 2026, Leicester

Inspirate’s flagship festival, An Indian Summer, is back this year, transforming Leicester city centre into a vibrant hub of creativity and community. The festival continues to be a unique celebration of contemporary South Asian arts and culture, with open-air events and performances happening across Jubilee Square and the historic surroundings of Leicester More

South Kilburn CarniVale, London

OUR THEME FOR 2026 IS ‘ROOTS’ - LIN KAM ART proudly presents South Kilburn CarniVale Community Folk Festival Saturday 4th July 2026 1 - 5pm Free entry Canterbury Road, Granville Road, Peel Plaza, Granville Rec - London, NW6 In partnership with Granville Community Kitchen, OK Club and South Kilburn Trust Artistic Director / Festival Founder Linett More

The National Festival of Making, Blackburn

The National Festival of Making is a unique celebration of making, from the kitchen table to the factory floor. Presenting a programme of work that combines art, manufacturing, making, and communities. Commissioning international and national artists to create world-class works, and offering a year-round programme and a participatory FREE FAMILY festival More

Crewe Day Festival, Crewe

Crewe Day Festival 2026: Saturday 4th July - save the date! Crewe Day commemorates the anniversary of the first trains passing through Crewe Station, during the opening of the Birmingham to Manchester and Liverpool line on 4th July 1837. This is a key moment in the town’s industrial heritage and a catalyst to the creation of the Crewe we know today. Crewe More

Festival of Thrift 2026, Kirkleatham

Festival of Thrift is delighted to announce that it will return to Kirkleatham Museum and its stunning grounds in Redcar & Cleveland in summer 2026, marking the beginning of an exciting new multi-year partnership with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council. For several years, audiences, artists, traders and local residents have been asking whether the More

Ripon Theatre Festival, Ripon

Take a look under the bonnet with us as we reveal our plans for the 2026 Festival. Meet Natalie Spanner in Fixing – our featured theatre event for the evening. A gloriously silly drag car maintenance class which shifts in and out of performer Matt Miller’s childhood memories. It’s a show about family breakups, learning car maintenance and choosing the right More

Exmouth Festival, Exmouth

The Exmouth Festival is a celebration of our town, our community and our talent. If you would like to perform, run a workshop, have a stall, or do something else please send us a message. We also need volunteers to help at the event, collecting donations, handing out programmes and helping with our sustainability programme. If you could help out for even More

Bath Carnival, Bath

Each year over 1200 people perform along our procession route with hundreds of professional carnival performers joining forces with local schools, clubs and community groups to create a huge collaborative performance that takes over the entire city centre! Over a year of preparation goes into creating this colourful spectacle which sees new costume design More

Bristol Harbour Festival, Bristol

This year, we're bringing a reimagined footprint to Bristol that puts the water right back at the heart of the celebration. Stretching along the harbourside from Thekla to Underfall Yard, the festival’s refreshed layout turns Bristol’s iconic waterfront into a living stage - packed with back-to-back entertainment, dockside moments and maritime magic. B More

All the World’s Our Playground Festival, Shepton Mallet

The festival will take place across a range of indoor and outdoor spaces around the Market Place, and we’re excited to programme a mix of emerging, new and established acts. Even better, the final programme will be chosen by young people from our youth programming teams in Shepton Mallet. More

Ventnor Fringe, Isle of Wight

Discover the best new music, comedy and theatre at the Isle of Wight's largest arts festival, Ventnor Fringe. Taking place over 10 days the festival transforms the Island's southernmost town and surrounding coastline to become a stage for hundreds of performances, with venues in even the most unlikely locations. From cutting-edge cabaret to spectacular ci More

Southampton Mela, Southampton

The Southampton Mela Festival is a long-standing summer highlight in Southampton’s events calendar celebrating Modern and Traditional Asian Culture. Join us on Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July. Running for two decades, the Southampton Mela Festival now attracts around 30,000 thousand people per year from along the South coast to enjoy a fusion of m More

UPLIFT Festival, Rotherham

The Uplift Festival held on Saturday 18th July, is an urban sports and arts event that brings together energy, sport, creativity, and community spirit to the heart of Rotherham Town Centre. The festival offers a wide programme of live music, dance performances, hands on creative opportunities such as street art sessions and craft activities whilst giving you More

The Big One Hundred, Ashdown Forest

'The Big One Hundred' is a magical new story for Ashdown Forest, where interactive performances, heathland walks and shared encounters reveal a curious new creature and invite audiences to write the Forest’s next chapter. One hundred years ago, A.A Milne wrote about mythical beasts the Heffalump and Woozle living in the Hundred Acre Wood. Lead artists Tri More

Latitude 2026, Suffolk

Join us for a weekend of discovery at Klarna presents Latitude. Set within the stunning surrounds of Henham Park, we’ve been creating unforgettable memories for almost 20 years. Let your curiosity guide you through the very best in music, dance, comedy, poetry, theatre, literature, podcasts, science, family activities and wellness. More

Surge Festival, Glasgow

Surge Festival returns to the Merchant City for its 16th annual street theatre festival over two weekends this summer, with weird and wonderful outdoor acts from around the UK and the world. A wide selection of incredible performances will be joined by our Four Nations bursary acts, newly developed by street performers from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wal More

Camp Bestival, Lulworth

Designed by families especially for families, Camp Bestival presented by Debenhams combines all the fun of a fantastic family camping holiday with everything you’d expect from an idyllic and action-packed festival adventure. More

SIRF 2026, Stockton-on-Tees

The world renowned outdoor arts festival will be full of surprises, skill and spectacle for all the family. The North East’s biggest FREE to enjoy outdoor arts and street theatre festival will be filling the streets of Stockton with music, circus, dance and more. SIRF brings together some of the finest street theatre, dance, music and arts from across More