Out There Arts National centre for outdoor arts and circus

Events

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Classes

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Out There Festival

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Open Air

UK & International Touring

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Open Air focuses on the international exchange of world-class, participatory, and inclusive outdoor arts. In 2025, Out There Arts will host the first ever ‘Fresh’ gathering, marking a major milestone for the UK sector.

Taking place at the Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts & Circus, from 28 - 31st May 2025, Fresh will serve as a launchpad for a three-year programme featuring international and UK showcases, reciprocal European partnerships, touring opportunities and a professional network for artists and promoters. The programme will also support the promotion, distribution, and growth of outdoor arts across borders.

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Explore the UK Artist Selection

This is a list of UK companies that Out There Arts suggest are suitable for consideration by international
programmers

This is not a comprehensive list of UK companies or work

It is a dynamic and developing list over the next three years as part of international recipriocation project.

UK Artist Selection

Webinar Series

As part of the Open Air project, we are hosting a series of webinars covering a variety of topics to help support the touring, exchange and presentation of UK & International Artists.

There will be four webinars a year covering:

  • International Touring
  • Participation and Inclusion
  • Sustainable Touring
  • Environmental Touring

 

The webinars will be aimed at artists but we welcome festival producers, agents and organisations to join too. Webinars will be hosted via zoom and registration will be carried out via Google Forms.

Upcoming dates:

Webinar #1: Accessing International Markets – December 4th 2025

Webinar #2: Sustainable International Touring – January 28th 2026

Webinar #3: International Touring and Your Carbon Footprint – February 5th 2026

Webinar #4: Participation & Inclusion – February 26th 2026

 

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Key Stats:

  • First ever Circostrada ‘FRESH Street’ (major sector gathering) to be held in the UK
  • 3 year programme of international and UK showcases
  • 110k ‘least engaged’ people as audience/participants/collaborators
  • 400 national and international Outdoor Arts professionals attending FRESH
  • 30+ partners (sector leading international festivals/development organisations
  • Annual UK/International showcase of 10-12 companies
  • 20 Creative, People and Places engaged
  • 35% carbon emissions reduction
  • 10 countries 

Please consider donating

Want to help us host even more amazing artists and classes? The more support we get, the higher the quality of ever-growing programme will be. By choosing to donate, your support will help us to continue hosting these wonderful events such as the Out There Festival.

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