Playmakers Youth Theatre Showcase hailed a success

Photo Credit: Cave & Sky Last month Playmakers Youth Theatre presented their annual Showcase at Theatre Royal Winchester and enjoyed incredible feedback from leaders and audiences. The theme of the Showcase was Look Back, Look Forward and Look Up and the groups, made up of young people from school...

Play to the Crowd announces new partnership with Pulse Cargo

Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers, announces that Pulse Cargo, worldwide freight shipping experts, have recently become Corporate Partners supporting Hat Fair Festival Logistics. Since receiving the news that the charity would no longer receive core funding...

Volunteers needed for Hat Fair 2024

The organisers of Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – are looking for volunteers for this year’s event, which takes place from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July. The festival, which takes over the city streets and green spaces of Winchester, is visited each...

Perform at Hat Fair!

Playmakers are offering local talent the chance to perform at this year’s Hat Fair festival – and there are two ways for them to get involved. Playmakers are calling upon local singers, musicians, comics, choir members, dance troupes and others with a short performance to apply now to be...

Winchester Hat Fair announces 2023 line-up

Image: Gobbledegook Theatre Company Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, is ready to take over Winchester’s city streets and green spacesagain – with bold street theatre, music, dance, circus, and more, from Friday 30 June to Saturday 1 July. This summer, Hat Fair features the...

Volunteers needed for Hat Fair 2023

Photo by Adrienne Photography Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – is looking for volunteers to help at this year’s event in Winchester, which runs from Friday 30 June to Saturday 1 July. The festival, which each year takes over the city streets and...

Winchester Hat Fair to go ahead in 2023

Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Hat Fair, has announced that Hat Fair 2023 will go ahead this summer, albeit in a smaller way. The charity learnt in November that it would no longer be funded by Arts Council England (ACE) as a National Portfolio Organisation...