Festival & Performance Listings 2020

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

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
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-15 Mar Adelaide Festival, Australia

Mar

1 Mar St David’s Day Parade, Cardiff
1-31 Mar Savage Beauty, Galway
5-8 Mar Light Up Leicester
6-7 Mar Spilsby Light Night
6-9 Mar ‘As the World Tipped’ (Wired Aerial), WomAdelaide, Australia
13-17 Mar St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin, Ireland
15 Mar London St. Patrick’s Day Festival, London
26-29 Mar Mostra Igualada, Spain
27 Mar-14 Jun Festival Tweetakt Utrecht, Netherlands
30 Mar Corby Mardi Gras, Leicester

Apr

4 Apr Streets of Battle
10-12 Apr City of Wings, Ypres, Belgium
10 Apr-3 May Ten Acres of Sound
18-19 Apr Sandbach Transport Festival
19 Apr Mela in the City, London
23-26 Apr Sismògraf Dance Festival, Spain
25 Apr Streets of Bexhill
25 Apr Atmosphere Festival, Worcester

May

1-31 May Brighton Fringe
1-3 May Puppet Theatre Fair of Lleida, Spain
1-3 May Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
1-3 May Ansan Street Arts Festival, Ansan, South Korea
2 May Streets of Battle
2-17 May Wye Valley River Festival
2-24 May Brighton Festival
8-9 May Hereford River Carnival
8-10 May River Festival Liverpool
8-24 May Wandsworth Arts Fringe
8-24 May Norfolk & Norwich Festival
13-17 May Festival Les 3 Elephants, Laval, France
14-17 May Umore Azoka, Spain
14-17 May Fira Trapezi Reus, Catalonia, Spain
14-17 May AND Festival, Manchester River Canal
15 May Light Night Liverpool
16-24 May Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle, Valladolid
16 May-14 Jun Nottingham Puppet Festival
20-31 May Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
22 May-7 Jun Bath Fringe
22 May-7 Jun Salisbury International Arts Festival
23 May Family Day at Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
23 May Streets of Bexhill
23 May Oldham Festival of Transport
24 May Work and Play Scrapstore, Hazelfest, UK
28-31 May Imaginarius, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
28 May-29 Jun Grenoble Street Arts Fest, France
29 May-7 Jun B-Side Hip Hop Festival, Birmigham

Jun

1-24 Jun Birmingham International Dance Festival
2 Jun Leicester Riverside Festival
3-7 Jun Carlow Arts Festival
6 Jun Wentworth Festival, Rotherham
6-7 Jun ‘Jingah!’, Nottingham Puppet Festival
9-14 Jun tête-à-tête International Street Festival, Rastatt, Germany
11 Jun The Kilburn High, London
11-14 Jun Eden Festival, Lockerbie
12-21 Jun Cork Midsummer Festival, Ireland
12-21 Jun Oerol, Netherlands
12-21 Jun Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania
14 Jun Diss Carnival & Fun Day
17 Jun-9 Jul Shakespeare in the Squares, The Tempest, London
18-21 Jun La Strada, Bremen, Germany
19 Jun-4 Jul Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, London
21 Jun Manchester Day
24-28 Jun Glastonbury Festival
26-28 Jun Festival Vivacité
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
30 Jun-4 Jul Cratère Surfaces, Alès, France

Jul

1-19 Jul Buxton Festival Fringe
2-5 Jul Merchant City Festival
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
5 Jul Cowley Road Carnival, Oxford
6-11 Jul Disrupting the Norm Festival, Worcester
8-12 Jul Henley Festival
9-11 Jul Bridge (Imagineer Productions), Worcester
10-12 Jul Bradford Festival
10-12 Jul Brazilica Festival, Liverpool
11 Jul St. Leonard’s Festival
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 Bridgwater Quayside Festival, Somerset
18-19 Jul Birmingham Mela
18-19 Jul Lambeth Country Show, London
19 Jul Fleetwood Festival of Transport
24-26 Jul Cirque Plus, Bruges, Belgium
30 Jul-2 Aug Camp Bestival
30 Jul-2 Aug Kendal Calling, Cumbria
30 Jul-2 Aug Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF)
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, Brecom Becons
21-23 Aug Just So Festival, Cheshire
23-30 Aug Spoffin Festival, Amersfoort, Netherlands
25-26 Aug Newcastle Mela
27-30 Aug Shambala Festival
28-31 Aug Greenbelt Festival, UK
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
6 Sep Festival of the Sky, Cleethorpes
5-13 Sep b-side festival, Portland
10-13 Sep FiraTàrrega, Spain
12-13 Sep Festival of Thrift, Redcar
11-20 Sep Inside Out Dorset Festival
12 Sep All in the Mind Festival, Basingstoke
18-20 Sep Lancashire Encounter
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
10 Oct Hastings Borough Bonfire Night
15-18 Oct Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, Spain

Nov

12-15 Nov National Circus Festival of Ireland, Tralee