Saturday 22 September

Big Scribble: QUAD

Location: QUAD
Start Times: 10am until 4pm
Cost: FREE

Draw and scribble your Festé magic moments on our Big Scribble canvases surrounding the QUAD Café Bar. Drawing materials will be provided for scribblers of any age.

Artcore: Glory of the Games at Déda

Location: Déda
Start Times: 12pm until 8pm
Cost: FREE

Glory of the Games invites participants to create scrap books, posters and collaborative large panels on the theme of sports and games. Participants will use various art materials, also visuals related to sports and games through the collection of newspaper clippings, magazines, relating to popular games and sports. The completed collaborative piece of artwork will be displayed at a public place, possibly a sports venue in Derby; for all to enjoy, be proud of and earn Glory.

Splash Stage

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 12pm until 6pm (information boards will outline the running order and timings)
Cost: FREE

Listen, watch and enjoy some of Derby and Derbyshire’s hottest new live performances. Festé presents a rolling programme showcasing the diversity of the county’s performing artists. The line-up includes dancers, poets, puppets and musicians of all styles in a continuous flow of entertainment whether you are dropping in for a quick visit, or settled down for the entire afternoon, there will be plenty to keep you entertained.  Keep an eye out for information boards on the day for the final line up and running order.

Yarn Bombing

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 12pm until 6pm
Cost: FREE

Derby Makers (based at the Silk Mill Museum) along with the help of other local knitters have Yarn Bombed the area around Cathedral Green. Look out for colourful displays of knitted, crocheted yarn that have been inspired by using the bright colours from Games Time. Look around the Cathedral Green area to find knitted dice, balls, games boards and snakes and ladders.

ArtReach: Nanoplex

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 12pm until 6pm
Cost: FREE

The ArtReach Nanoplex is a state of the art moving image gallery housed within a converted family caravan. Shunned from the Caravan Club and rejected by the average campsite owner, the Nanoplex has discovered its true calling – to tour festivals and events across the UK, showcasing the best and most original short films by artists from across the world. A special programme of moving image works by artists from the Platforma Arts and Refugee Network will be screened – an initiative designed to support and mainstream the work of refugee artists in the UK. www.platforma.org.uk

Independent Theatre Network: Theatre on the Run!

Location: Starts at Costa Coffee on St Peters Street
Start Times: 12pm and 2.30pm (45 min tours)
Cost: FREE

Join five of Derby’s most exciting and vibrant theatre companies for this eccentrically entertaining stroll through the city’s St Peter and Cathedral Quarters; who knows who you'll bump into?! From local heroes to not-so-local Alien Tourists, Hollywood stars and New York Divas to Will Shakespeare himself, this is set to be the most unique walk you will have ever taken through Derby city centre. (Image: Venture Photography)

Rannel: Fhlip Fhlop

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 12.15pm, 2.45pm and 5.15pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Take a whole bag full of classic comedy routines, shake them up and update them for the hip-hop age and you have the exhilarating and hilarious Flhip Flhop. Life can be really boring, especially when you’re a decorator with time on your hands and beats in your head. But when your mate’s into the same sounds as you are, work gets a bit funkier. This crazy pair of painters escape the monotony of their dull jobs by taking refuge in hip-hop, MC-ing and beatbox, mixing it up but usually ending up just mixed up!

Big Rory & Co: Giant Seagulls

Location: Westfield
Start Times: 12.15pm, 2pm and 3.45pm (40 min show)
Cost: FREE

These cheeky sea birds have had bookers in a flap all over the world. Giant cheeky gulls with working beaks, they’ll rummage in bags and pockets, steal food, squabble amongst themselves and generally cause a fuss.

Pif Paf: Flycycle

Location: St Peters Street
Start Times: 12.15pm, 2pm and 3.45pm (45 min show)
Cost: FREE

Why do we travel? What to want to find there? Is the journey the destination? Or is the destination the journey? All will be revealed when you and a lucky friend find the Flycycle and you get the ride of your life!  Beautifully crafted, expertly piloted and sensationally silly The Flight Of Fancy Simulators await you… (All ages welcome, journeys last 5 minutes, right of admission reserved, dress to impress). Commissioned by The Sheffield Children’s Festival.

The Delegates: Circuit Training

Location: Exchange Street
Start Times: 12.15pm, 2pm and 3.30pm (40 min show)
Cost: FREE

Look out for The Delegates firm believers in ‘Yesterday’s Games Tomorrow’ who will be scouring the streets of Derby in search of talented new athletes. Officially, the grey-suited Delegates represent Ph.A.R.S.E. (Physical Alternative Recreational Sporting Enterprises Selection Committee). Ph.A.R.S.E. are seeking participants to represent Team Derby at the Brazilian Olympics in 2016. The Delegates have their own take on Olympic sporting events and present a series of highly competitive sports that includes Paper Scissors Stone, Digital Hula-Hooping, Pavement Darts, Anxious Irish Dancing and Tiddly-winks. This is your opportunity to test your skill and sporting prowess against The Delegates.

Pif Paf: Submercycle

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 12.30pm, 2pm and 3.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

A Flight of Fancy Simulator, beautifully crafted and expertly piloted. Find the Jetty and Captain Calypso and the ever-ready Pearl will take care of the rest preparing you and sending you on a watery journey in our cycle powered bathysphere to the depths of your imagination! Journeys last about 5 minutes, all ages welcome, 2 at a time, toes may get wet, sharks may get tickled, imaginations will be inflated. Commissioned by The Sheffield Children’s Festival.

The What If? Machine

Location: Silk Mill, Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1pm until 6pm
Cost: FREE

‘What if’ you could come and see Derby’s first ever giant chain reaction Machine at the site of the World’s first factory? Using our museum collections, the theme ‘games’ and our continuing reputation as a city of invention, creativity and engineering – our partners and collaborators will build something quite extraordinary. You will be able to create your own mini-versions and watch as the large scale machines are built and tinkered with. Then…watch as we trigger the machine to achieve the ultimate in perpetual motion spectacle… we hope!

The Bean Caffé BBQ will be serving at the Silk Mill from 1pm until 6pm

Le Navet Bete: Extravaganza

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 1pm and 3.30pm (45 min show)
Cost: FREE

Fed up with being misunderstood and undervalued at home this high energy troupe of clowns decide to travel away from home in search of their own pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Little do they know that a man has stowed away with them in their tour van and what they all discover on their travels is far from what they’d bargained for…

Musical Ruth

Location: St James Street and Cornmarket
Start Times: 1pm, 2.15pm and 3.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

A mobile piano is driven around by Sister Ruth, a madcap nun who can stop and entertain a group of people using comedy patter, hilarious dance moves, facial contortions, sound effects and unusual renditions of all your favourite songs.

Icarus: Roo’d

Location: Westfield
Start Times: 1pm and 2.45pm (45 min show)
Cost: FREE

Giant bouncing kangaroos on powerskip stilts leaping up to one metre off the ground? A phenomenal sight with their crossover of outback machismo and inner city punk savvy.

Rampage Brass Band

Location: Outside The Cathedral
Start Times: 1pm, 2.15pm and 3.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Reclaiming the street music of New Orleans from the old men in bowler hats and waistcoats The Rampage Brass Band enthral audiences young and old with their energetic and youthful zest re-interpretations of classic street band music from New Orleans. Led by the effervescent Jeff Brown, this wild bunch of Derby based musicians will enjoy themselves as much as you will!  Rampage Brass Band is the latest collaboration between The Music Hot House and Derby Jazz.

Red Herring Productions:That's the way to do it!

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1pm and 3pm (45 min show)
Cost: FREE

Enjoy this life sized, alternative version of the much loved Victorian seaside entertainment Punch and Judy as they return as a vehicle for hilarious satire in our anxious, credit crunched world. With puppets, music and knockabout choreography the infamous rebels take to the streets and ask the public for their support. Who will win the war on freedom of expression and civil rights? Will the Polite Policeman have his way? It's fun for all the family.  The show is produced by Time Won't Wait and funded by Arts Council England. 

Reckless Invention:Turbo Jonez and the Temple of Boom

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1pm and 3pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Turbo Jonez and the Temple of Boom is a sequel to the first, very successful solo show from Reckless Invention. This show starts with Turbo searching for the ultimate phat beat. The audience is taken on a musical journey through of the most dangerous and heinous tracks of the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, all the way back to Mozart. It’s an endorphin rich soundtrack that assaults, transforms and transports the audience through their memories of tunes that rock.

Honk Project: Trundlehonk

Location: Exchange Street
Start Times: 1.15pm, 3pm and 4.15pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

What do you do when your musical instrument has a mind of its own? How do you cope when your team starts to test you? Meet the loveable Trundlehonk, a keen member of the local brass band, whose troublesome trolley and extremely wilful horn simply refuse to play along… Complete with a magnificent stand-alone bandstand! Packed full of live music and slapstick comedy. A wonderful medley of mayhem that you won’t want to miss.

Circo Rum Ba Ba: Pirates

Location: Cornmarket
Start Times: 1.15pm, 2.30pm and 4.45pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Two scurvy pirates in a boat interact their way through the audience, plundering and looting as they sail into a port near you. They are hale and hearty and always ready to give the landlubbers a taste of the salt water!

Greenbanks' Productions: Silent Movie

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1.15pm, 2.45pm and 4.30pm (45 min show)
Cost: FREE

Be prepared for lots of laughter and audience participation when an exasperated film Director sets out  to shoot a scene from his latest ‘Silent Movie' with an incompetent crew and impromptu cast made up of "extras". Will 'world famous' international film director, Hyram Hiccinbottom succeed and film his masterpiece of the silent movie genre or will it all come tumbling down as Hollywood meets 'Ollinwood.

Half Human Theatre: Albot the Robot

Location: St Peters Street
Start Times: 1.15pm, 3pm and 4.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Probably the first ever Victorian robot. Albot was created in response to the Dickens bicentennial and inspired by HG Wells and Jules Verne. He is a genuine robot with no human parts and stands at over two-metres tall. He is animated by state of the art digital remote controls and the unique transformer-like frame enables him to change shape and stretch up to well over three-metres.

Bread and Butter Theatre: Sports Day

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4.15pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE
80’s PE Teachers, Mr Stretch and Mr Armstrong are always firm but fair. They are on a mission to get the nation fit for the 2012 Olympics using only their enthusiasm, a roving musical pommel horse and some PE kits rescued from the lost and found locker. Remember it’s not about the taking part, it’s the winning that counts!

Ouch Entertainment: Yodel

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 1.40pm and 3.45pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Yodel is an absurd comedy where Wolfegang Glochenspiel from leather-Hosen-Land performs his world famous classical music on bicycle horns while riding on a 2 meters high unicycle. Witness a wonderful exposition of traditional leek dancing with a chorus of juggling. Listen to the beautiful melodies played by his orchestra of Bell Ringers. Yodelay-e-hooooooooo!

SafetyCatch: Watch the Birdie

Location: Outside The Cathedral
Start Times: 1.40pm, 2.50pm and 4.10pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

An old-fashioned photographer from the silent movie era, dresses & poses volunteers for portraits in a paper moon.  A mini darkroom magically develops prints for keepsakes & springs odd surprises... How will your portrait turn out?!?

Swank - SputKnicker Sisters

Location: Market Place
Start Times: 2pm and 4.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

Following a twenty year absence, the former Russian award winning trio make their communist comeback. Gymnastic champions in the 1980s and now undeterred by age and gravity, The Sputknicker Sisters still believe they are at the top of their game. Marvel in the muscle of ‘Iron Bloc’ Olga, be dazzled in the glitter of Tarty-ana and gasp at malnourished Marta.

Bruce Airhead

Location: Cathedral Green
Start Times: 2.20pm and 4.30pm (30 min show)
Cost: FREE

The metamorphosis of a man and a six-foot balloon. Whilst wearing only brightly coloured lycra shorts and choreographed to music. An original 30-minute comedy show with an explosive finish.