Stalls and activities - Bankside Open Spaces Festival 2024

Get ready to experience excitement on the streets at Bankside Open Spaces Festival 2024! Alongside live music, DJs, and local performers, you'll find lots of fun stalls and activities to enjoy all day long.

With delicious food, cool drinks, unique crafts, beautiful art, and timeless antiques from local businesses, our stalls represent the best small businesses in London. While festival activities give you the chance to learn about Bankside's history with special tours (book here for London Street Tours BOSFest Tours), relax with a massage, or get creative with free hands-on crafts and interactive workshops.

Activities - walking tours, theatre and wellness

  • Walking tours - take a deep dive into the area’s intriguing history with one of London Street Tours BOSFest Tours - crafted especially for the day. Booking essential - book here: https://forms.office.com/e/TkvxRALBpw

  • Crossbones Tours, The Goose and The Graveyard - These tours introduce Crossbones' rich and vibrant history. Crossbones researcher, Lucy, will lead you through the ground's social history from its origins through to the early 1990s. From here, Jennifer, aka Vigil Aunty, will tell the story of The Goose and her secret history, revealed on the 23rd of November 1996.

    Tour times: 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 - just pop by at any of those times to enjoy the tour.

  • Pop-up games cafe with Colab Theatre

  • Insecurity Guards - here to protect you from your insecurities!

  • Avery Puppet Theatre are back by popular demand with their Morandi Still Life and Dancing Tomatoes shows, plus new surprises!

  • Relaxing crafts - London panorama drawing with Robin Whitmore (help Robin complete a landscape of our vibrant city!) and medieval making with Old Operating Theatre in Red Cross Garden and over in Marlborough Sports Garden, flower pressing with Crafting Joy, clay craft with Mud Gang and flower power tote, tea towel or t-shirt making with M.Y.O.

And keep an eye out for the Pearly King and Queen of Woolwich!

Activities and stalls - for children

In Marlborough Sports Garden:

  • Facepainting with Coin Street, alongside a host of crafting.

  • Toys and sweet treats from Sweet Delite.

  • Crafts from Mud Gang and M.Y.O, see above.

  • Hands-on fun with Unicorn Theatre.

  • Borough Beach - buckets and spades in our huge sandpit!

  • Free sports workshops - cricket, Wall Ball and football, click here for details.

In Red Cross Garden

On Union Street

  • Puppets with Avery Puppet Theatre

  • Ice Cream Van from Sweet Dreams

  • Nina’s Bows - hair accessories from our local bow expert!

Stalls - food and drink

Hot food and sweet treats from around the world with:

Foodie products from:

  • Funkee Veg Sauce - chilli and veg sauces

  • Che Sauce - hot sauces to spice up your life

  • The Nature Queen - honey and bee inspired products


Stalls - handcrafted and unique products

  • Pick up a new accessory from Langis Essentials, Lemony Jen, Ilke Usluca Designs or Wrapped by Sarah. Maybe treat yourself or a loved one to some jewellery from Paquita Ruby, StoneCraft Jewellery, Crystalize in Style or Victoria's Gems.

  • Gifts for your family, or your dog! From Angelicapoems, Fabs Ceramics, SE22 Gift Co, Starest or the Organic Pet Bakery.

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