This weekend, enjoy food, live music, rickshaw rides and entertainment from living trees and a giant mechanical tortoise at autumn festival…
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A crab fair and competitive gurning in Cumbria
This weekend, Cumbria will host some competitive face pulling, alongside one of the oldest fairs in the world and a quirky apple tradition…
Brilliant trails and a bijou speakeasy on a bus at Culture Night
Belfast will be hosting a two-day extravaganza with hundreds of free, family friendly events across the city centre and beyond…
Lifesize puppets and pop up events at Saltaire Festival
Expect quirky street theatre, wonky games, eclectic displays and hidden heroes in Yorkshire this month at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire…
Immersive art and a pop up schoolroom at Vintage by the Sea
Head to the Lancashire seaside and enjoy a vintage bike ride, a pooch parade, break dancing lessons and some seaside mini golf with a difference…
Soapboxes take to the cobbles in York
Participants in York’s most unusual road race are undertaking final preparations on their person-powered vehicles, ready for the fourth annual Micklegate Run Soapbox Challenge…
Unique decorated floats at Hythe Venetian Fete
Watch an illuminated floating procession in Kent this month, as Hythe’s unique annual event takes place…
Step back in time as Lytham hosts 1940s weekend
Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend will be taking place this weekend bringing music, dance and a touch of nostalgia to the Lancashire seaside town…
Join pirates and sailors at Ipswich Maritime Festival
This weekend, Ipswich will be celebrating all things nautical with pirate crews, Georgian sailors, maritime themed inflatables and ships…
A strange character appears in Edinburgh
Tomorrow (Friday 9th August) will see an unusual character, decorated in flowers, ferns and burrs, wandering the streets of South Queensferry, near Edinburgh…
Dandy chaps compete in fancy games at vintage fair
The Chap Olympiad is one of Britain’s most eccentric sporting events, where smartly dressed ladies and gentlemen compete in games such as Umbrella Jousting…
Taste the unexpected at Chilli Fiesta
Things will be hotting up (in the culinary sense that is) in West Sussex this weekend, as West Dean Gardens host their annual Chilli Fiesta…
Camels and cream teas in Cumbria
This weekend, watch muck shifting demonstrations, vintage vehicles, kite flying displays and racing camels as the Cumbria Steam Gathering takes place…
Cheese racing, markets and quirky performances at festival
The Big Cheese festival will take place in Caerphilly with medieval entertainment, Vikings, a cheese market, quirky walkabout performers and a Great Cheese Race…
Traditional Lakeland sports in Ambleside
Ambleside Sports is a unique event featuring traditional Lakeland sports, including quirky Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling matches…