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28th - 31st May 2025

FRESH Street #5

Great Yarmouth, UK

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FRESH in the UK

The first ever FRESH event in the UK, an important moment for the Outdoor Arts

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May 28th - 31st 2025

As part of the Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus 2025

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Great Yarmouth

Taking place in the UK's Capital of Circus and home of the National Centre for Outdoor Arts and Circus

About

FRESH STREET was hosted in the UK for the first and only time as part of the 2025 Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus.

An important and flagship conference for the outdoor arts and circus sector, FRESH brought together key European and international artists, programmers, and policymakers for three days of dynamic discussions and stimulating exchanges on how we can imagine the outdoor arts of tomorrow.

FRESH STREET#5 was co-organised by Circostrada Network and Out There Arts in the frame of Out There Festival, in partnership with Outdoor Arts UK.

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Fresh Programme Overview

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Wed 28 May - Revolution, gentrification or entertainment

Is the outdoor arts as a force for alternative ways of living and thinking dead? Can we be revolutionaries and pay the rent? Have our revolutionary voices been reduced to a whimper in the face of less and less funding? What are we doing about this?

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Thurs 29 May - Creating with communities

What does ‘community-led’ and ‘community co-created’ mean? How do we generate lasting change in and with communities? Are we an inclusive art? ? How do we foster more space for diversity?

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Fri 30 May - Reclaiming public space

What does the planet look like in the next 25 years? How will we respond to the future as artists, organisations and places? How do we take back more of the public space for the public? With keynote speaker Brian Eno

The Out There Festival 2025

Fresh Street #5 took place in the frame of The Out There International Festival 2025 from 28th – 31st May. This seventeenth edition was the biggest outdoor arts programme in the UK, featuring:

  • Over 50 artistic companies
  • 17 International companies
  • 18 World/UK Premieres
  • 150+ performances/works engaging over 50,000 people

Check out the programme below

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Creative People and Places at FRESH

Join the conversation on how the Outdoor Arts massively increases participation in the arts

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Why GY?

What does this mean to Great Yarmouth? More high quality outdoor arts on your doorstep, opportunities for our local artists to engage with the international sector and a chance to cement Great Yarmouth as the capital of outdoor arts and circus.

Great Yarmouth is already home to Out There Arts who operate The Drill House and the upcoming The Ice House - National Centres of Excellence for Outdoor Arts and Circus as well as the Out There Festival.

The Out There Festival is recognised internationally as a strong practitioner of participative and inclusive approach. Great Yarmouth is prime to welcome a forward-looking approach to the future of Outdoor Arts and thinking around community-led place-making.

What does this mean to the UK?

FRESH Street #5 will springboard a three year international and UK reciprocal exchange network programme. A collaborative and creative opportunity to revitalise the exchange of world-class, tourable, quality outdoor work and innovate the outdoor arts as an effective means to engage with communities.

Stay tuned to find out more about our three year programme.

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