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FURTHER DATES WILL BE ADDED AS THEY ARE ANNOUNCED

  • Brighton Festival

    Festival dates: 3 May 2025 - 26 May 2025

    Brighton Festival, now the largest arts festival in England, is one of the major milestones in the international cultural calendar.

    Over a three-week period, Brighton Festival explores a wide-ranging programme of music, theatre, dance, film, and literature. It has a long tradition of attracting the most exciting performers from across the globe and promoting local artists, and bringing fresh, challenging new work to Brighton.

    Without Walls Shows: Hydropunk, RO-TES រទេះ, Waiting Song, Eshu at the Crossroads, Roots to Rise, The Hide, Go Grandad Go!, HUG

  • Norfolk & Norwich Festival

    Festival dates: 9 May 2025 - 25 May 2025

    Norfolk & Norwich Festival is a flagship arts organisation for the East of England with a reputation for innovative, inspirational programming and commissioning.

    As well as staging one of the most significant arts festivals in the UK each May, Norfolk & Norwich Festival collaborates throughout the year with local, national and international partners to produce work for a huge and diverse range of audiences, participants and communities.

    Without Walls Shows: Eshu at the Crossroads, HUG, Hydropunk, RO-TES រទេះ, Roots to Rise, The Hide, Waiting Song, Tell Me, Go Grandad Go!

  • A brass band with skeletal bodysuits on under purple clothing and skulls painted on their faces play their instruments outside the Glassworks building in Barnsley.

    Barnsley Town Centre

    Festival dates: 24 May 2025

    Barnsley town centre hosts an exciting programme of festivals and cultural activities throughout the year – delivered by two collaborative partners:

    Barnsley Arts & Events team deliver a wide range of high-quality outdoor festivals. The team were crowned Best Local Authority Events Team at the National Outdoor Events Association Awards (NOEA) in 2022.

    Barnsley Civic is the town’s flagship multi-purpose arts centre. They seek to bring wide-ranging, contemporary artforms to audiences from Barnsley and beyond.

    Without Walls Shows: Ancient Giants, BAMBOO, Mughal Miniatures

  • The Culture House

    Festival dates: 26 May 2025

    A pioneering arts organisation based in Grimsby, passionately serving the community and beyond, by creating thoughtful and imaginative festivals, events and projects all designed to uplift, stimulate and positively impact.

    They work to ensure more people have access to cultural opportunities and believe everyone deserves the best no matter what their background or where they live.

    They contribute to shaping our place, with love and commitment co-producing in partnership with others, engaging and memorable cultural experiences that we hope connect and live on in the heart.

    Without Walls Shows: BAMBOO

  • Super Culture

    Festival dates: 7 June 2025 - 8 June 2025

    Super Culture’s flagship festival, Whirligig in Weston-super-Mare, is a vibrant, weekend event in the heart of the town that presents a mix of local, national and international outdoor arts. Super Culture also involves local organisations such as XR, Weston Pride and Weston College in associated creative activity on the Festival site in order to embed Whirligig firmly in the heart of the community.

    The festival is playful and family-friendly, and Super Culture look for content that challenges, surprises, inspires and entertains.

    Without Walls Shows: BAMBOO, Crap at Animals

  • Basingstoke Festival

    Festival dates: 20 June 2025 - 6 July 2025

    Basingstoke Festival is produced by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. It is an annual arts festival designed to showcase the best of the arts locally, nationally and internationally. From music to dance, visual art to theatre, the festival aims to bring the very best arts to audiences and those wishing to take part, by presenting experiences in the most unusual places.  

     

  • An aerial performer is using a red cyr wheel outside a large light stone building. There is a barrier keeping the audience around at a safe distance.

    Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure

    Festival dates: 21 June 2025 - 22 June 2025

    Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure is a Leisure Trust based in the London borough of Redbridge, a registered charity and non-profit organisation where any surplus made is reinvested for community benefit to improve the quality of facilities and services offered to Redbridge residents. As a social enterprise, Vision RCL is committed to working in partnership with the London Borough of Redbridge to deliver a wide range of leisure and cultural services to the communities that they serve. Vision Redbridge run events across the summer, for more information on the various dates, please visit their website.

    Without Walls Shows: Now I am Become Deaf (Destroyer of Words)

  • Inspirate

    Festival dates: 5 July 2025 - 6 July 2025

    An Indian Summer was born to share the sights, sounds and wonders of South Asia in the heart of Britain!

    Their mission is to celebrate the shared culture between the Indian subcontinent and the UK – nurturing exciting artistic collaborations and educating people from all walks of life about the past, present and future of our global community. 

    Without Walls Shows: Roots to Rise

  • Oldham Council 

    Festival dates: 5 July 2025

    Festival Oldham’s FREE annual outdoor arts festival celebrates arts, culture, community, and place.

    Join us as we showcase the very best local, regional and national street theatre, music, dance and visual arts as they transform spaces across the Town centre.

    As part of the 175th anniversary in 2024 of Oldham becoming a municipal borough in 1849, the festival will celebrate its people, places and pastimes. Don’t miss a jam-packed programme of accessible, family friendly entertainment and activities with something for all.

    Without Walls Shows: Family Catwalk Extravaganza, Mughal Miniatures

  • A person dressed in beige holds an umbrella covered in floating plastic fashioned to look like a jellyfish.

    Flux Rotherham

    Festival dates: 5 July 2025

    Flux Rotherham‘s mission is for Rotherham to be established as a dynamic cultural democracy, ensuring that everyone has regular and frequent opportunities to experience high-quality culture and to explore and express their own creative ambitions, heritage and identity. 

    Flux Rotherham co-creates arts with communities. Enabling everyday creativity, generosity of ideas, transformation of experiences and places. 

    Without Walls Shows: TOAST

  • Certain Blacks

    Festival dates: 26 July 2025 - 27 July 2025

    Certain Blacks presents performance, live art, music and theatre and the creative voice of our diverse society. Our philosophy is to provide performance opportunities for new, emerging and established artists of the highest quality. The organisation aims to challenge the norms of performance and what is seen as diverse. Certain Blacks presents art from the margins into the mainstream.

     

  • Stockton International Riverside Festival

    Festival dates: 1 August 2025 - 3 August 2025

    Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) is an annual free outdoor arts and street theatre festival in Stockton-on-Tees.

    Taking place over in early August, it attracts international artists performing to thousands of spectators each year.

    It showcases outstanding international street theatre, dance, circus and music acts with a packed programme of shows for all the family.

    Without Walls Shows: Hydropunk, HUG, Roots to Rise, RO-TES រទេះ, Eshu at the Crossroads, Tell Me

  • FESTIVAL.ORG (Greenwich + Docklands International Festival)

    Festival dates: 23 August 2025 - 8 September 2025

    FESTIVAL.ORG’s flagship event is the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London’s leading festival of free outdoor performing arts (theatre, dance, and street arts), an annual 10-day celebration of extraordinary outdoor events that transform people’s lives. The Festival commits to breaking new ground in outdoor performance and raising the ambition, quality, and diversity of outdoor work produced, focusing on the commissioning and developing outdoor work led by Deaf and disabled artists and artists from diverse backgrounds.

  • The urban astronaut is suspended upside down in the air. Another performer is on the ground. They are hand in hand and looking at each other in an outdoor space in Birmingham surrounded by their audience.

    Birmingham Hippodrome

    Festival dates: 23 August 2025 - 25 August 2025

    Birmingham Hippodrome, in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central and Birmingham City Council

    The streets and squares of Birmingham city centre burst into colourful life as Birmingham Weekender returns to Bullring & Grand Central and Southside. Join us for fantastic installations, pop-up performances, and interactive games from local, national, and international companies.

    Without Walls Shows: Hydropunk, HUG, Waiting Song, Tell Me, RO-TES រទេះ, Eshu at the Crossroads

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    First Art

    Festival dates: 6 September 2025

    Put simply, First Art is about making good things happen through the arts.

    Through a diverse arts programme, First Art works to bring inspirational cultural experiences within reach of everyone living in Ashfield, Bolsover, Mansfield and North East Derbyshire, as well as helping local people to produce and shape their own cultural experiences and events.

    The programme ranges from putting on outdoor arts festivals to supporting family art events in communities.

  • Encounter Festival

    Festival dates: 20 September 2025 - 21 September 2025

    Encounter Festival is an authentic voice for Lancashire and the North West, celebrating the breadth of the County’s diverse cultural offer with high quality and high profile arts. Taking place every other year at the end of September, Encounter Festival sees the city of Preston buzzing with life and alight with creativity. The past Encounters have seen an array of spectacular performances, inspiring arts and impressive music, bringing spectators to their feet.

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    Arts by the Sea

    Festival dates: 26 September 2025 - 28 September 2025

    The Arts by the Sea festival is an annual celebration of culture, people and place, bringing an intriguing, exciting and carnivalesque mix of the arts to the beautiful outdoor spaces of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Arts by the Sea is managed and produced by BCP Council and funded by BCP Council and Arts Council England. 

    The festival supports local talent development, celebrates our diverse communities, and promotes sustainability. BCP Council aims to increase opportunities for people for participate in the arts and enhance a sense of community while showcasing work which makes a real impact on the audience and on the area.