Annual favourites
Birmingham has a year long programme of fantastic festivals and events - here's a calendar of perennial favourites.
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Flatpack is a festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every spring. It draws people from…
BDF was created to show the world that the city’s design community should be taken seriously.…
Presented by the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, together we are the UK and Europe’s…
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BIRMINGHAM
Flatpack is a festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every spring. It draws people from far and wide with a mixture of films, performances, contraptions and surprises.
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BDF was created to show the world that the city’s design community should be taken seriously. There’s a lot to be proud of in Birmingham, but also a lot of room for growth. We wanted to spearhead this, engage local communities and businesses,…
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Presented by the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, together we are the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film festival with an entertaining and thought provoking line-up of independent films.
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BIRMINGHAM
Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival is set in the truly beautiful and unique setting of Moseley Park, Birmingham. Every year, the park plays host to a weekend of blistering live music, attracting people from all over the world who gather to see…
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BIRMINGHAM
TILT is a 2 week festival of aerial circus and physical theatre for adults and young people
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BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Hippodrome’s weekend festival heads back to the carefree days of childhood with FREE fun for kids of all ages.
The streets around the theatre will be transformed into a summer playground, where you can enjoy… • Pop-up performances •…
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BIRMINGHAM
Running since 1985, Birmingham, Sandwell & Westside Jazz Festival is England’s longest-established jazz and blues festival and one of Europe’s biggest free jazz parties.
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Smethwick
Sandwell & Birmingham Mela is the biggest South Asian music festival in Europe. Music, dance, food, arts and crafts bring the sights, sounds and spicy aromas of South Asia to Victoria Park, Smethwick
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BIRMINGHAM
Showcasing unsigned acts right next to well established international artists makes for a really exciting bill, the Moseley Folk Festival returns to Moseley Park each year.
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Meet your favourite authors. Discover astonishing books. Interactive storytelling fun at Birmingham's only dedicated children's book festival for 0-12s.
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BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF) is an award-winning biennial festival presenting a vibrant programme of international dance in venues and public spaces across Birmingham; creates distinctive new work; builds audiences, and engages…
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BIRMINGHAM
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The biggest two day LGBT party in the UK returns each Bank Holiday Weekend in May.
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After a year online, Birmingham Comedy Festival is back in the room for 2021.
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We're making the best of the ongoing situation, and the ever-changing restrictions and guidelines, and moving the Birmingham Literature Festival online this autumn.
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BIRMINGHAM
Fierce Festival is one of the UK’s most respected festivals of Live Art & the leading organisation for Live Art in the West Midlands. It has an international reputation for agenda setting curation & intelligent commissioning that has seen Fierce…
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BIRMINGHAM
SHOUT have developed a robust and dynamic annual festival taking place for 10 days each November.
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Birmingham
An international film festival of screenings, events and awards for film makers from around the world, held in the exciting city of Birmingham.
Join us for 200 films screened over 10 days, as well as workshop, seminars, industry Q&A panels and…
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The University of Birmingham’s Arts & Science Festival is a week-long celebration of research, culture and collaboration across campus and beyond.
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BIRMINGHAM
One of the world’s largest Vaisakhi celebrations returns to Handsworth Park each year to mark the Sikh nation’s collective birthday.