Monday, September 9th 

The festival opens with a performance by our community artists from KEEN Oxford showcasing their original songs. 

Tuesday, September 10th

Join us to learn about musical facilitation, celebrate the weird, wonderful and downright hilarious in Live & Peculiar, enjoy a modern interpretation of Electra Untitled a story of women who provoke change in times of hostility, then follow it up with a late-night listening party in collaboration with Oxford Contemporary Music.

Wednesday, September 11th  

On Wednesday, you can join us to see an exploration of knife crime and social exclusion in Motherhood, put real life to one side as a Terminator rebuilt with Windows 95 returns to the past to discover what it means to be human in I’ll be Back, or join us for fresh new comedy material at our late night comedy night.

Thursday, September 12th

Thursday brings an exploration of EU migration, the complexities of Catholic families, and the courage of coming out in Have you met Stan?, a captivating and comedic piece of magical realism about the things we lose and how we grieve them in Deluge, and macabre nursery stories told with captivating illustrations in Mildish Urges for Childish Dirges.

Friday, September 13th

On Friday join us on Gloucester Green for a fun-filled day of free arts and crafts activities for all the family. Later you can see a woman's surreal journey unfold as she receives daily aerial deliveries in Pigeons in Transit, join an interactive theatre game in She Vanishes in the Air or drop into our scratch poetry night at the Old Fire Station cafe.

Saturday, September 14th

All our stalls will be back again on Saturday on Gloucester Green for arts and crafts fun, younger audiences will love The Witch Without a Wand, a BSL witchy mystical mayhem of an adventure, or you could head back to St. Giles Fair in 1892 where Alice falls from the carousel in The Untold Story of Alice Breakspear.

The Oxford Playhouse Playmakers will present six script-in-hand extracts from plays for the very first time, and you can also see a screening of Troika Theatre’s Recollections, a documentary, celebrating the incontrovertible power theatre has to bring people together.

Follow as Hattie, a woman in her 20s, tries to navigate her life, her relationships and job with her reality of living with chronic pain in Unaligned, join us later for a double-bill dance event featuring Don't Tell Me What Bharatanatyam Is, an experimental performance that will challenge your perceptions of Indian classical dance and Renegade Master, a vibrant celebration of Queerness woven with a critique on privilege and societal politics. Then finish your night with our electronica night.  

Sunday, September 15th  

Our final day of the festival kicks off with a chance to learn an international folk song with the Starling Session’s Sunday Morning Song, head out to Gloucester Green to see The Trap, a madcap open-air slapstick performance for all the family, or join us later in the afternoon for Cancer B*tch an exploration of managing a cancer diagnosis in your twenties.

Explore a unique window into a forgotten city with Rawz as he weaves a tapestry of poems, songs and stories from his experiences of the Leys and the city's university, see multi-award-winning theatre maker Maya Hallpike’s debut solo show HEAD, then join us for a glorious rendition of global folk music with the Starling Sessions before celebrating with us at our festival closing party at the Old Fire Station cafe.