Annual favourites
Birmingham has a year long programme of fantastic festivals and events - here's a calendar of perennial favourites.
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The University of Birmingham’s Arts & Science Festival is a week-long celebration of research,…
Join tens of thousands of onlookers lining up Digbeth High Street to watch the St Patrick's Day…
One of the world’s largest Vaisakhi celebrations returns to Handsworth Park each year to mark the…
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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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Join tens of thousands of onlookers lining up Digbeth High Street to watch the St Patrick's Day Parade. Starting at camp hill at 12 noon, our ever growing parade lasts almost two hours and is a showcase of the diverse cultures and communities of…
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One of the world’s largest Vaisakhi celebrations returns to Handsworth Park each year to mark the Sikh nation’s collective birthday.
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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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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…
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,…
Meet your favourite authors. Discover astonishing books. Interactive storytelling fun at Birmingham's only dedicated children's book festival for 0-12s.
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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BE FESTIVAL turns the notion of conventional theatre upside down. It crosses borders, creative disciplines and blurs the boundary between audience and artist.
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This festival will bring together the top 40 independent coffee shops and coffee culture experiences from the local area and beyond.
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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 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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TILT is a 7 day Aerial & Physical Theatre Festival delivering high quality teaching and performance from national and international circus artists.
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The Brindleyplace Film Festival is back each July. Open to everyone, the Film Festival showcases films suitable for family viewing, with the evening films screened at 6pm and two films shown on both Saturday and Sunday, the first at 11am and the…
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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.
The biggest two day LGBT party in the UK returns each Bank Holiday Weekend in May.
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Food lovers rejoice! The Brindleyplace Food Festival is arriving this Autumn with an action-packed schedule to treat tastebuds and tummies across Birmingham! This year’s festival will feature food from around the world – why not try your hand at…
Welcome to the Birmingham Comedy Festival. While ongoing Covid-19 restrictions have meant our massive venue-filling 2020 festival has been postponed (boo!), we haven't gone away.
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.