Start your summer at Basingstoke’s award-winning free outdoor arts festival

Get ready to jump into a summer of wonder as Basingstoke Festival returns for its fourteenth fabulous year.

Across three weekends (Friday 20 June to Sunday 6 July) expect fabulous free street theatre popping up in Basingstoke town centre and across Basingstoke and Deane, from jaw-dropping circus, breathtaking aerial dance, comedy and circus, live music and outdoor spectacles that will stop you in your tracks. Whether you’re a festival faithful or a first-timer, get ready to feel joy, awe and a spark of childhood wonder.

>> Plan your Festival weekends here https://www.basingstokefestival.co.uk/programme-2025/

The Basingstoke Festival programme is free, apart from the fantastic NoFit State who will be pitching up their Big Top Tent in War Memorial Park with their award-winning large-scale circus spectacular SABOTAGE for ten days throughout the festival, from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 June 2025. These performances are paid for and ticketed. NoFit State are offering local schools a reduced ticket price of £10 per ticket.

Local schools ticket offer

Please use the code below to claim the offer.

Code: Sabateur10

Valid on all Basingstoke SABOTAGE shows. The offer can be extended to children’s families as well.

Book tickets here: https://www.nofitstate.org/shows/sabotage/sabotage-basingstoke/