Sun 15th, 9pm-10.30pm
OFS Cafe | Free

Come join us in celebrating the close of the festival with drinks, music and lots of good cheer.

Sun 15th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10

Think local, folk global! Starling Sessions is a global folk community orchestra, exploring traditional music from around the world through the people of Oxford. Join us for their joyful, moving, and life-affirming celebration of songs that have transcended borders and found a home here.

Sun 15th, 6.30pm 
BT Studio | £8

Merging the absurd with reality, Maya explores the unique challenges and joys of growing up with ADHD… A debut WIP solo show from award-winning theatre maker and clown Maya Hallpike.

Sun 15th, 5pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10

A unique window into a forgotten city, Rawz weaves poems, songs and stories into a tapestry, drawing from his own experiences of the Leys and the city's University. 

Sun 15th, 3.30pm 
BT Studio | £8

Having cancer in your twenties is like, totally fine - right? Stuck in a dull hospital waiting room for yet another appointment, Molly shares her rules on how to manage cancer – which is basically to ignore it completely. But is life ever really that simple? 

Sun 15th, 2.30pm
Gloucester Green | Free

A plan, a man, a plant. The Trap features sublime slapstick, mad music, peculiar props and hilarious audience improvisation. 

Sun 15th, 12pm
Old Fire Station Studio | Free

Learn an international folk song by ear and from scratch with members of the Starling Sessions. All ages, abilities, voices, and instruments welcome. No experience necessary. There will be an opportunity for participants to join the Starlings’ performance later in the evening.

Sun 15th, 10.30am-11.30am
Old Fire Station Theatre | Free

Join us for a backstage tour of the Old Fire Station as part of the Oxford Open Doors festival. Tours are free but booking is required.

Sat 14th, 9pm-11pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free

A forward-thinking, eclectic, live electronica event featuring performances from three local, leftfield artists. Expect to hear exciting, challenging and progressive stories.

Sat 14th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10

Don't Tell Me What Bharatanatyam Is

An experimental performance that will challenge your perceptions of Indian classical dance and take you along an artist’s introspective journey of learning and unlearning. 

Renegade Master

A vibrant celebration of Queerness, intricately woven with a poignant critique on privilege and societal politics inspiring us all to embrace diversity and stand against inequality. 

Anthology of Touches

Anthology of Touches is a dance duet exploring memories and lived experience of touching and being touched.

Sat 14th, 6.30pm
BT Studio | £10

A glimpse into a mother’s confrontation with knife crime. Lisa doesn't have the right words or know what questions to ask. So what happens when doing the right thing isn't the right thing any more? 

Sat 14th, 5pm
Old Fire Station Studio | £8

A timely documentary, celebrating the incontrovertible power theatre has to bring people together. Connect and reconnect with the Oxford Theatre community as we invite you to join us for a screening of this documentary short and to share your own recollections. 

Sat 14th, 3pm 
BT Studio | £8

A showcase of six script-in-hand extracts from plays written by playwrights from the Playhouse Playmaker writers attachment scheme. Led by Clare Bayley, the Playmaker scheme brings together professional writers from across the UK, each developing a first draft of a new play shared for the first time at this Showcase.

Sat 14th, 1pm
Old Fire Station Studio | £8

St. Giles Fair, 1892. Alice Breakspear falls from the carousel, and an inquest concludes it to be a fatal accident: but was it? A collaboratively-written tale inspired by real events from Oxford’s history. 

Sat 14th, 11am
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10
Grab your broomsticks and join WhatNot Theatre as we whisk you away on a Witchy mystical mayhem of an adventure for all the family combining the storytelling of British Sign Language integrated within the performance.

Sat 14th, 10am-3pm
Gloucester Green | Free

Join us on Gloucester Green for a fun-filled day of activities. You could try your hand at pottery, mask-making or quilting, help decorate the square with giant floral spin paintings, map the comings of goings of the marketplace or write or receive a poetic cure for your ailments. Come join us and have some fun!

Fri 13th, 9.00pm-11pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free

A night of new local work from Oxford’s finest poets.

Fri 13th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £8

A reconstruction of the case of a woman who went for a walk with her dog and never came back, She Vanishes in the Air is an interactive theatre game that challenges the audience's perceptions by exploring the impact of cancel culture on artistic creation. 

Fri 13th, 6.30pm 
BT Studio | £10

A woman's surreal journey unfolds as she receives daily pigeon deliveries, exploring climate change, conspiracy and hope in Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones' bold music-filled solo performance. 

Fri 13th, 10am-3pm
Gloucester Green | Free

Join us on Gloucester Green for a fun-filled day of activities. You could try your hand at pottery, mask-making or quilting, help decorate the square with giant floral spin paintings, map the comings of goings of the marketplace or write or receive a poetic cure for your ailments. Come join us and have some fun!

Thur 12th, 9pm-10pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free

Illustrated Macabre Nursery Stories told with a projector.

Thur 12th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10
A captivating and comedic piece of magical realism about the things we lose and how we grieve them. Blending true stories with fiction, movement, text, comedy and live music.  

Thur 12th, 6.30pm
BT Studio | £10

Experience the triumphs and struggles of EU migration, the complexities of Catholic families, and the courage of coming out in this captivating musical tale featuring a fusion of pop and Irish folk music.

Wed 11th, 9.00pm-10.30pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free | 18+
Fresh new comedy material, pushing the boundaries and testing the Offbeat waters from some of Oxford’s finest comedians.

Wed 11th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £8
A Terminator rebuilt with Windows 95 returns to the past to discover what it means to be human. 

Wed 11th, 6.30pm
BT Studio | £10

A glimpse into a mother’s confrontation with knife crime. Lisa doesn't have the right words or know what questions to ask. So what happens when doing the right thing isn't the right thing any more? 

Tue 10th, 9.00pm-10.30pm
Old Fire Station Cafe | Free
Come along and share and listen together to tracks which you associate with Oxford.

Tue 10th, 8pm
Old Fire Station Theatre | £10

Adding a modern twist to an old narrative, Electra Untitled brings forward the role of women who provoke change in times of hostility and dissolution using dance, puppetry and visual storytelling to reconstruct the story of a modern antihero tangled in the violence of patriarchal suppression.

Tue 10th, 6.30pm 
New Theatre Piano Bar | £10 

Comedy, Cabaret, Music, Art ... and you? Celebrate the weird, wonderful and downright hilarious in a high-energy show packed full of Oxford’s comedians, artists and musicians.

Tue 10th, 10am-5pm
Old Fire Station Studio | Free

Join facilitators Lauren Spiceley & John Ruddock in a day-long workshop that will explore the method and practice they use at Starling Sessions, and the skills needed for leadership and facilitation in a musical context. The training will include how to build a good group dynamic, how to teach and learn by ear, and ways of facilitating peer-to-peer learning.