Redbridge Outdoor Arts
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Our Mission
Redbridge Outdoor Arts brings FREE, high quality outdoor arts performances to public spaces in and around our Libraries for everyone to enjoy!
Presenting theatre, circus, music and dance in Ilford Town Centre and Barkingside High Street.
Redbridge Outdoor Arts 2026
Join us to celebrate our diverse community!
Redbridge Outdoor Arts presents our 2026 programme, with street theatre, dance, music and playful joy we’re celebrating our communities in Refugee Week and South Asian Heritage Month, through Disabled-led performances and taking part in Black History Month.
Come with the family, alone or with friends.
Our shows are accessible, relaxed and seating is provided.
No need to book, just turn up!
Access Information Point
Touch Tour
Easy Read
Audio Described
BSL (British Sign Language) Interpreted
Closed Captions
Core Values
- CONNECT: Creating a sense of place, strengthening relationships, and building new connections.
- INCLUSIVE: Creating an inclusive environment, by reflecting and engaging the diverse communities of Redbridge, building safe, accessible, and welcoming spaces for everyone to take part in arts and culture, underpinned by a commitment to care for each other.
- JOY: Through shared experiences and opportunities for connection within positive environments, we aim to celebrate, inspire, and build collective joy in our communities.
- IMPACT: Empowering the communities of Redbridge by fostering inclusive participation in arts and culture and generating joyful experiences that leave a lasting positive legacy.
What we do
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See what we did in previous years
June
Tit for Tat Circus presents Now I am Become d/Deaf (Destroyer of Words)
July – Celebrating South Asia!
Sonia Sabri Company presents Mughal Miniatures: Animal Paradise
September
Chad Taylor presents Closer to My Dreams
October – Celebrating Black History Month
Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates present Patois
June – Redbridge Outdoor Arts Launch
Out of the Deep Blue
Out of the Deep Blue is an outdoor physical theatre performance featuring a 13-foot tall Puppet operated by 5 puppeteers and a female dancer. The performance tells the magical story of Eko, a sea giant who rises from the deep ocean and who encounters, on the shore, a courageous little girl called Violet.
Fabula Festival – Families Take Over Day
A la Puppet Carte by Thingumajig Theatre
Join us for some pop-up puppetry storytelling. On the menu is a pair of pop up puppet stages built onto the back of electric tricycles. Each stage is a puppet show full of surprises, fun and a heart-warming story of friendship and a sense of home.
July – Celebrating South Asia!
Join Redbridge Outdoor Arts as we celebrate our local communities through dance, music, costume and performance as part of Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure’s South Asian Heritage Month celebrations.
TEA BREAK
TEABREAK serves as a portal into an experiential world of tea drinking and performance. Free, freshly brewed tea is served from Trigger’s Tuk Tuk, offering the opportunity to sit, enjoy a cup of tea and companionship and subtly be taken through the history of tea.
Choogh Choogh
Choogh Choogh inspired by the joy of travelling through India on a train. The journey starts with audience getting a special choogh choogh ticket.
Scarves become steam, railway tracks, train windows, camels, and so much more. A journey where the audience experience the world from inside the train, through the train and outside it. Along the way the tickets get checked and imaginary food is sold and shared.
This show is an exploration of just how much we can see and imagine, together, as the train chooghs chooghs on.
September
Fussy Foodies: Battle of the Pans
An interactive game show using food history, music, roots, and culture by Just More Productions.
It’s a celebration of food, music roots, and culture, a kitchen party where the audience joins in on the fun! But don’t get too comfortable, you’ll have your part to play! The audience/ the contestants will take part in the cooking and the games with number one foodie ‘Messy Mama T’ there to quiz you on your foodie knowledge – with a chance to win the grand prize!
October – Celebrating Black History Month
Island Movements by Black British Ballet
Island Movements is a short ballet that tells the story of Windrush and explores the impact of this generation’s experiences on their families, communities and society.
Beginning with a young Caribbean woman who volunteers to support the war effort in WW2 Britain, this moving tale follows her and her family through their life in the UK to the current day.
May – King’s Coronation
Vegetable Nannies
Let’s Grow Pop-up Allotment
BEES!
June
Invisible Man
Great Yiddish Parade
TOAST
July
FLOOD
August
Look Mum, No Hands!
September
Do What Your Mama Told Ya
Actual Reality Arcade
Rascally Diner
Roll Play
Strong Enough
Bonded
Black Victorians
During autumn 2021, Redbridge experienced a range of mesmerising light installations, breath-taking performances and magical, playful sculptures.
Our first event Museum of the Moon took place on 17 to 19 September in the beautiful grounds of Valentines Mansion. This exhibition featured a spectacular piece of artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram which has been presented all around the world, we had approximately 3,000 visitors that came to view this wonderful exhibition. Museum of the Moon has been supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Brighton Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
Take a look at our video below for more about the exhibition.
The programme of events continued through out October 2021, including events such as On Edge parkour, Distant Drums exhibition celebrating Black History Month and Recovery Poems.
