All events are FREE.
Please note that some events have limited audience capacity

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(Brochure due out mid May).
 
Festival Fanfare, Beresford Square, Woolwich, SE18
Thursday 21 June, 7.00pm
Dutch company Close Act, with White Wings, present ethereal stilt apparitions. From France, Fanfare Jo Bithume’s eccentric brass ensemble plays music from Handel to Hendrix in surprising locations. Australia’s Strange Fruit embark on a sublime journey into memory with Absolute Pearl. Derezo’s Paper Men create Kurosawa inspired performance from huge swathes of paper. Vernisseurs’ Joyeuse Pagille Urbaine wraps public spaces in ribbons and confetti plus dazzling fireworks from UK pyrotechnic virtuosi The World Famous.

K@osmos, Old Royal Naval College, SE10
Friday 22 June, 9.45pm
Award winning Spanish/Argentine Grupo Puja take their inspiration from nuclear physics in a dreamlike gravity defying aerial performance with atmospheric live music. A team of eight fearless aerialists and bungee performers will be suspended on a spherical steel frame and raised by crane.

Dancing City, Canary Wharf, E14
Saturday 23 June, 1pm - 5pm
A whole day of contemporary outdoor dance and acrobatics amid the architecture, squares and stairways of Canary Wharf. Performance by UK artists Hofesh Shechter, Maxine Doyle and Felix Barrett, Upswing, Gandini, Nina Rajarani and Motionhouse and international dance from Catalan company Sol Pico with their extraordinary mechanical structures, and Les Ballets Grooms with a street theatre interpretation of the great nineteenth century Russian ballets.

Mirage, Wennington Green and Roman Road, E3
Saturday 23 June, 9.36pm
Oposito, France’s leading outdoor theatre company, will present one of the most ravishing processional performances ever staged in London. With a cast of 40 performers, Mirage evokes the landscapes and traditions of Africa inspired by the Oposito’s travels in Ethiopia and South Africa. A series of breathtaking mirages will be revealed across streets and parks in Bow, including an caravan of outsized camels created by London based artists in collaboration with Oposito and local people and school children.

Preview events in Mile End Park, 21 & 22 June - members of the public will be escorted on ‘Camel Sightings’ by performers who will tell them stories about the camels and the park.

The O2, Greenwich, SE10
Sunday 24 June, 1pm - 6pm
An extraordinary array of leading UK and international street arts and spectacles will herald one of the first free access public events at The O2 in an afternoon programme of free entertainment. The O2‘s open public spaces, situated within the Entertainment Avenue, will be filled with fantastic creatures, music, dance, daring aerial performances, processions and circus. A showcase of outstanding companies who have been public favourites at past Greenwich+Docklands International Festivals, as well as startling new performers, will amaze and thrill in the soaring spaces of The O2.

These will include Plasticiens Volants with giant floating sea creatures inspired by underwater imagery towering over the heads of audiences; French company Aeroplume who create stunning spectacle with their helium filled zeppelin; a new heart stopping bungee dance commission from a young and exciting UK based company Wired Aerial Theatre, choreographed by Wendy Hesketh (formerly of De La Guarda); and Zia Azazi, virtuoso exponents of the ancient Sufi Whirling Dervish dance tradition, whose contemporary interpretation has captivated audiences at outdoor festivals across Europe.

Plus Osadia, The Dream Engine, Scarabeus, Sarruga, Strange Fruit, Factoria Mascara and many more!

Mass Carib, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, SE10
Sunday 24 June, 9.30pm
Providing a dignified and moving finale to the Festival, this outdoor music theatre performance by Nitro, one of Britain’s leading Black theatre companies, will mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Against the background of Wren’s Royal Naval College, an evocative ritualised choral performance will unfold, bringing this year’s Festival to an emotionally charged conclusion.

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Oposito

K@osmos

Sol Pico

Nina Rajarani

Plasticiens Volants


Nitro