Big Arts Day

The hottest thing this summer!

As the summer hots up, so are the plans for the Big Arts Day.

This free festival, on Saturday 14 July at Lydiard Park, is set to be bigger and better than ever – and is a MUST SEE for anyone wanting a great day out in Swindon.

Highlights include:

• Six music stages crammed full of local talent with everything from jazz, punk, ska, rock, samba, indie, rockabilly and more. Headlining the Main Stage are Big Weekend Records featuring AJ and friends. With lots of other great musical acts and local favourites, as well as Josh Kumra, known for his No 1 hit with Wretch 32, ‘Don’t Go ‘
• Drama Zone
• Big Dance Zone
• Literature Zone
• Food, Community, Charity, Retail and Craft stalls
• Chill Out Zone, with an arts and crafts marquee, the Acoustic/Alternative Music Stage and a specially commissioned Jubilee Exhibition Tent, and…
• …CreateMobile digital media activities – and the launch of their brand new app, which could win under 25s an iPad!
• Workshops
• Films in the Film Zone
• Professional artists
• A brand new Children’s Zone
• And a fantastic finale with an Olympic tie in!

For children, watch out for Tiny the Dinosaur, a life-like Stegosaurus, or have a 1930s-style seaside snapshot taken with three puppets who have jumped out of their sepia photograph.

There will be dry-land synchronized swimming display, superb mime and robotics, Grannies on revved -up shopping trolleys, Giant Lobsters and interactive multi- sensory Love Machines.

The Finale features a unique urban circus show, The Search for Swindon’s Soul. Can Eurus the Lord of the East Winds find the soul of Swindon? Can he capture its spirit in a machine? Will it all end in disaster? Festival goers can play on the machine during the day, telling stories and helping Eurus with his quest over at the Urban Circus Zone.

The Big Arts Day – fun, free and fantastic! Don’t miss it.