3 June, 12-9pm

Location: Red Cross Garden, Marlborough Sports Garden, Crossbones Graveyard, Redcross Way and Union Street to Flat Iron Square!

It’s back! Bankside Open Spaces Festival - our celebration of open spaces and the community who loves them - returns to our streets and green spaces in June. Make the most of the Queen’s Jubilee Bank Holiday with a free community street party right on your doorstep!

On Friday 3 June, we’ll be welcoming performers young and old, community groups, artists, sports coaches, musicians, singers, dancers, and pampered pooches of all sizes to Bankside Open Spaces Festival and we’d love you to join us too!

An evolution of our Great Get Together, Bankside Open Spaces Festival is a celebration of our open spaces and the fantastic role they played in helping people get together safely during the pandemic. It’s also a celebration of our community and its resilience during that difficult time.

The festival will bring people together again for our biggest street party since 2019 - and what better time to do it than during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. So if you fancy a right royal knees up - get involved and enjoy our Bankside Open Spaces Festival 2022!

Bankside Open Spaces Festival

Expect: live music on our Flat Iron Square Main Stage; stalls and activities running down Union Street; a reflective art installation in Crossbones Graveyard; djs and performances on the street; sport, kids’ craft and our Borough Beach in Marlborough Sports Garden; food, wellbeing activities and acoustic music in Red Cross Garden and down Redcross Way; and don’t forget the dog show! There’s something for everyone and you can get involved too!

How you can get involved:

Volunteer:

This year we are expecting an even bigger and better event, and we are now looking for keen, creative individuals between the ages of 18- 65 to be Volunteer Stewards, supporting the production and security team on various shifts from 8am to 10pm.

To find out more email: festival@bost.org.uk

Run a stall or activity

The festival owes it success to community involvement - we welcome community groups, charities, small businesses, artists and more to fill our spaces with their information, creativity and fantastic products. If you’d like to engage with the thousands of people enjoying Bankside Open Spaces Festival this year, simply email festival@bost.org.uk and ask for a registration form.

Perform!

We love showcasing local talent of all ages - if you or your groups are interested in performing on one of our stages, or running a workshop then please get in touch - festival@bost.org.uk - we’d love to hear from you!

Below are just a few of the past performers, activities and supporters who have made our Great Get Togethers and Bankside Open Spaces Festival so special:

Past activities and performers include:

Activities Bankside ‘Bark Off’ Dog Show with Anna Webb (BBC Radio London); Bake Off and Village Fete (with maypole dancing); Castellers of London; comedy; Kids Zone with Zorb Pool, clay workshops, face painting, buckets and spades in our Borough beach; Birds of Prey; Surrey Docks Farm; Wacky Races; Swing Patrol, Zoltan Bihari and afrobix dance workshops; cricket, wall ball, football, personal training and aerobics workshops; craft workshops from visit bee keepers, the local WI and The Old Operating Theatre museum; A BIG plant giveaway... Performances from: Alda Dizdari, Brothers Ignatius Big Band, Borough Market Choir, Borough Welsh Chapel Choir, DEA Music Academy, LCCM Latin Ensemble, Pandemonium Drummers, South London Samba, Zoltan Bihari, the Street Orchestra, Bermondsey Jazz Festival, Astral Planarians, Giant Folk, Rob Corcoran, Lovell, Dai Price & Neala Hickey, Joe Strauser, Rupert Gillip, Stomp Swamp Stringband, Dog Roses, Alabama 3, Dana Emmanuel & the Stolen Band, Remi Banklyn, Lyle Zimmerman....

Previous sponsors and supporters:

The Arts Council, Better Bankside, Boot and Flogger, Borough Market, Bunker Theatre, CHA, CIT, Citizen Hotel, Coin Street Neighbourhood Builders, Corsica Studios, Fabrix London, Flat Iron Square, Forge Architects, Gentlemen Baristas, GPE, Hilton Bankside, Illuminate Productions, Landsec, Most Precious Blood, Migration Museum Project, Native Land, Resonance FM, Sellars, Southwark Cathedral, Southwark Council, SE1 Online, Starbucks, St George The Martyr, SuperGlad Music, Tate Modern, The Bridge, The Jo Cox Foundation, Team London Bridge, U+I, United St Saviour’s, USP and many more.