Festival & Performance Listings

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

Summer Sounds, St Osyth

This year, the festival is free, thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund. We believe live music, great food and community should be open to everyone, and our ambition is to keep the festival free forever (if we can make it work). If you’re in a position to support us, every contribution makes a real difference. You can make a one–off donation, or if 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

Fleetwood Festival of Transport, Fleetwood

Welcome to Fleetwood Festival of Transport (though around here, most people affectionately call it Tram Sunday). Every third Sunday in July, the streets of Fleetwood burst into life with the rumble of engines, the sparkle of chrome and the buzz of community spirit. What started back in 1985 as a one off celebration to mark 100 years of the Blackpool Tramw 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

Watchful, Newbury

The story of a woman and a man but also the story of a couple with children who continue to grow up. Travel back to their twenties and follow them through the decades - scroll through the scrapbook of an eventful and joyful life and discover what links us to each other. An opportunity to share moments of life and all the questions that go with them. Lo More

Roots to Rise, Redbridge

Celebrating South Asia! In her new dance theatre work, Roots to Rise, Nandita Shankardass brings together three women, each absorbed in the chaos of their own world. Blending folk and contemporary movement with Indian classical dance, this new work follows their journey back to the land, the soil, and the stories written in the stars. Set to polyrhythmic More

Manchester Day 2026, Manchester

Manchester's biggest day of the year gets a Catalan twist for 2026! Manchester Day returns Sunday 26 July. Switching for the first time to a Sunday instead of its usual Saturday, there promises to be a distinctly Catalan flavour to the day as performers from Barcelona head to Manchester to join in the festivities, marking the first time also that Manch More

The Big One Hundred, Multiple Locations

We begin the journey on 18–19 July in Ashdown Forest, where audiences can immerse themselves in nature on a special Explorer Day. Expect hands-on nature-based workshops, creative activities, and interactive encounters with a giant puppet creature inspired by endangered species found in the Forest. Our curious creature will then set off beyond the Forest, 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

Spraoi International Street Arts Festival 2026, Waterford

July 31st August 1st & 2nd are essential 2026 fun-lovers diary dates. Waterford, Ireland’s oldest city, welcomes you for three days of exceptional street carnival entertainment. Parade, music, dance, fireworks, street performance, and spectacle await our visitors. Ancient city walls, towers, and churches create incredible settings for a feast of fr 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