Photos: Stuart Allen Winchester’s Hat Fair provided a great day was had at the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts last weekend. The festival, which took place on Saturday 5 July across Winchester city centre, saw an exciting line-up of street performers, local talent, and national and international...
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Hat Fair Director receives City Centre Champion Award
Photo credit: Play to the Crowd Play to the Crowd has announced Andrew Loretto, Hat Fair and Playmakers Director, won the City Centre Champion Award at this year’s Winchester Business Excellence Awards. The Winchester Business Excellence Awards – which celebrates the outstanding achievements of businesses and entrepreneurs across the...
Preview: Hat Fair Community Celebration, Theatre Royal Winchester
Audiences of all ages are invited to an evening of music, song, dance and storytelling, exploring ‘when life feels like a beach’, when the Hat Fair Community Celebration comes to Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 4 July. This special one-night event will dive into sanctuary and safe spaces, the...
Local Talent wanted for Hat Fair 2025
Local people from in and around Winchester who are interested in performing at this year’s Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – can now apply to take part. Singers, musicians, comics, choirs, dance troupes and others with a short performance piece they would like...
Hat Fair returns for 2025
Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – is back for another summer, this year on Saturday 5 July. The festival – run by arts and education charity, Play to the Crowd – takes place in Winchester city centre and which celebrated its fiftieth birthday...
Hat Fair celebrates 50th birthday
Photos by Adrienne Photography Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – celebrated its 50th birthday in style last weekend (Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July) – despite the patchy weather. The festivities began around lunchtime on the Friday – shortly after the first performances...
Local and young talent perform at Hat Fair 2024
Photo of Arthur L Wood Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, which runs from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July, is ready to celebrate local and young talent with an extensive line-up of performances from youth theatre groups, drama students, local choirs, musicians, singers, dancers,...
Hat Fair welcomes back familiar faces
Photo credit: Adrienne Photography Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, is back for another summer – this year from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July – and to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday, the programme features a host of familiar faces, ready to bring more...
Hat Fair celebrates 50th birthday!
Photos: Adrienne Photography Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, is back for another summer – this year from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July. There will be bold street theatre, circus, music, dance and more taking over Winchester city centre for all ages to enjoy...
Local businesses enjoy Backstage Breakfast
Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers, welcomed businesses from across Winchester to a Backstage Breakfast to mark the launch of this year’s Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, which this summer will...