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Programme 2023

Discover art in unusual places and experience magical moments with your friends and family at Basingstoke’s annual, free, outdoor summer arts festival. Delight your senses with street theatre, visual arts, circus and dance.

Check out the programme below and start planning your weekends.

Download a copy of the programme to view offline here

Basingstoke Festival

WEEKEND ONE

Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June

See everything in one day

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Basingstoke Festival opening parade
Fluid Motion Theatre

Festival opening parade – Flourish

Friday 23 June
Time 5.30pm
Cross Street parading to the Amphitheatre by Festival Place
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The Tempest
THE PROTEANS

The Tempest

Friday 23 June at 7pm
Saturday 24 June at 2pm and 6pm
Sunday 25 June at 2pm
The Walled Garden

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FESTIVAL PLACE

Festival Hub

Saturday 24 June and Sunday 25 June
Times 11am to 4pm
Festival Place, ground floor next to blue parking and Typo
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Falconry Dismay
DIZZY O’DARE

Falconry Dismay

Saturday 24 June
12.45pm and 3.30pm
Amphitheatre by Festival Place
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JELLYFISH THEATRE

The Wagon of Dreams

Saturday 24 June
11.30am and 2.15pm
Cross Street

Sunday 25 June
12noon and 2.30pm
Cross Street
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Roll Model
SIMPLE CYPHER

Roll Model

Saturday 24 June
1.45pm and 4.30pm
Eastrop Park Bandstand

Sunday 25 June
1pm and 3.15pm
Eastrop Park Bandstand
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The greatest show on Earth
FLUID MOTION

The Greatest Show on Earth

Saturday 24 June
11am, 1pm and 3.45pm
Eastrop Park – banks of the Loddon

Sunday 25 June
10.30am, 12.30pm and 3pm
Eastrop Park – banks of the Loddon
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Fairy Finders Banner
SCRATCHBUILT PRODUCTIONS

Fairy Finders Trail

Saturday 24 June
10.30am, 1.15pm and 3pm
Starts at The Aviary in War Memorial Park

Sunday 25 June
11am, 12.15pm and 1.45pm
Starts at The Aviary in War Memorial Park
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Folk Dance Remixed

Step Hop House

Sunday 25 June
12 noon and 3.30pm
Whitchurch Silk Mill
Basingstoke Festival

WEEKEND TWO

Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July

See everything in one day

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Artist’s palette with colorful paints, paint tubes and a paintbrush
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FESTIVAL PLACE

The Festival Hub

Saturday 1 July and Sunday 2 July
11am to 4pm
Festival Place, ground floor next to blue parking and Typo
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Rush
JOSS ARNOTT DANCE

RUSH

Saturday 1 July
12noon and 2pm
Amphitheatre by Festival Place
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Books! Tit for Tat
TIT FOR TAT

Books!

Saturday 1 July
12noon and 3.30pm
Cross Street

Sunday 2 July
11.45am and 2.15pm
Cross Street
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AUTIN DANCE THEATRE

Parade: The Giant Wheel

Saturday 1 July
11am and 2.30pm
Starts at London Street
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INVERTED THEATRE

The Precious Thing

Saturday 1 July
1pm and 4.15pm
London Street

Sunday 2 July
12.45pm and 3pm
London Street
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The Lost Feather by Oily Cart
OILY CART

The Lost Feather: A sensory storytelling adventure

Saturday 1 July
10am and 1.35pm
Outside the Wote Street Club

Sunday 2 July
11.45am and 3pm
Outside the Overton Library, High Street
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Sea-TACULAR Junk Jodie
JUNK JODIE

Sea-TACULAR

Saturday 1 July
1pm, 2.30pm and 4pm
Winklebury Gala

Sunday 2 July
11am and 1.30pm
Cross Street
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Scratchbuilt Productions

Shed of Stories

Saturday 1 July
11am to 3pm
Ridgeway Centre, Buckskin
Basingstoke Festival

WEEKEND THREE

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July

See everything in one day

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FESTIVAL PLACE

The Festival Hub

Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July
11am to 4pm
Festival Place, ground floor next to blue parking and Typo
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FLOOD! Theatre Temoin
THEATRE TÉMOIN

Flood

Saturday 8 July
12.30pm and 3pm
Eastrop Park, Bandstand
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Look Mum no hands
DARYL & CO AND MIMBRE

Look Mum, No Hands!

Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July
11am and 1.30pm
Upper level of Festival Place, next to Costa Coffee and the Apple Store.
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SAY The Album Skool Edition
SAY

The album: skool edition

Saturday 8 July
11:45am and 2:15pm
Upper level of Festival Place, next to Costa Coffee and the Apple Store.

Sunday 9 July
11:45am and 2:15pm
Cross Street
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Eau De Memoire
MISS HIGH LEG KICK

Eau de Memoire

Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July
12.30pm and 3pm
London Street
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PUMPKIN PANTOS

Teddy Bear’s picnic and storytelling

Saturday 8 July
From 10.30am to 12.30pm
Eastrop Park – banks of the Loddon

Sunday 9 July
From 10.30am to 12.30pm
The Point, Newchurch Road, Tadley, RG26 4HN
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Scratchbuilt Productions

DIG

Saturday 8 July
10am and 11am
The green outside Oakridge Hall for All
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BASINGSTOKE HERITAGE SOCIETY

Basingstoke History on foot

Sunday 9 July
10.30am
Starts at Willis Museum, ends at Holy Ghost Cemetery
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BASINGSTOKE FESTIVAL

EVENTS RUNNING ALL THREE WEEKS

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High Street Safari

Alebrije AR Art Trail

Friday 23 June 2023 to Sunday 9 July 2023
Across Basingstoke town centre

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An Overhear App project

Poetic Basingstoke

Friday 23 June 2023 to Sunday 9 July 2023
Across Basingstoke town centre


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