The Alternative Village Fete, 2008 - 2012.....

Look out for The 2012 Alternative Village Fete at this years Watch this Space Festival, National Theatre on 26th & 27th August. Featuring: Catherine Hoffman, Deborah Andrews, Boogaloo Stu, Ella Good & Nicki Kent, Strangeworks, The Skip Sisters, Feral Theatre, Icecreamvanman, Cut a Shine, The Ceilidh Liberation Front, Tom Marshman, Richard Dedomenici, The Segue Sisters.

See our youtube film from the late night Alternative Village Fete in Brighton at the White Night Festival 2011 

'The Alternative Village Fete skilfully brings together some of the most interesting and accessible live art & performance with innovative craft, quirky stalls and participatory activities to create an extraordinary afternoon of enjoyable new experiences for young and old alike'  Lois Keidan, Director of Live Art Development Agency 

'Seriously, serious fun!' audience member 

'The Alternative Village Fete was without doubt the best weekend I've had this year' audience member 

The Alternative Village Fete is home live art's very own anarchic jamboree: expect a sideways slant on the traditional family day out where the folk is activism and the bunting is radical!

A packed programme of participatory and performance projects across the stage and stalls, embraces all that is Fete - Morris dancing, make do and mend, the British Gent and tea & cake, as well as artist's fete games, participatory performances, Hill Billy barn dancing, rocking folk fusion live music and much much more! The fete can be developed in a local context, profiling the best local artists, crafts, performers and producers and themed around particular strands of activity or location. 

Artists have included: Pom Pom International, Rediscovered Urban Rituals, I Knit London, Shane Waltener, Barby Asante, Bob & Roberta Smith, Vauxhall City Farm, Rock Pool Candy, Society of Wonders, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Ragroof Theatre, Made in China, Victoria Melody, Swing Patrol, Rock a Hula!, Alex Mendham and his Big Band, The Nest, The Dulwich Ukulele Club, The Bollywood Brass Band, Skip Theatre, Rock a Hula! Cut a Shine Collective, The Transsiberian March Band, Paul L Martin, Kidnap Alice, The Hot Potato Syncopators, La-di-dah, Pictotronic, Holly Gramazio, Cloth of Gold, The Make Lounge, London Dreamtime, Fran Burden & Richard McVetis, Peggy's Cupcakes, Bo-Peep Kids, All the Fun of the Fair, 1623 Theatre Company, Skip Sisters, Michele Bloom, Tom Marsham, DJ El Nino, Emily Fryer, Live Love Hoop, Brian Lopel, Catherine Hoffman, Lone Twin, Baby Warhol, Mutoid Waste, Tom Marshman, 815Agency, Jenny Edbrooke, Copperdollar, Brighton Belles WI, Strangeworks, Stacy Mackishi, Lois Weaver, Harold Offeh and many more!