Derby Festé 2019, Street Festival
September 27 - September 28
The streets of Derby will resound with dance, music, comedy and contemporary circus this September, as Derby Festé hits the ground running for a thirteenth successive year. Some 30,000 people expected to flock to the city for the festival.
Viewed as one the largest cultural street parties in the Midlands, Derby Festé is renowned for its innovation. For its 2019 edition, the festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, coinciding with the new moon that falls on 28 September, with its theme Space, Moon & Tides.
Museum of the Moon
Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon (see cover photo) will be in situ in Derby Cathedral on 16 September and stay throughout Derby Festé. Some seven metres in diameter, it features NASA imagery of the moon’s surface, with each centimetre of the sculpture representing five kilometres of the lunar surface. The pieces fuses lunar imagery and moonlight with sound from composer Dan Jones.
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Derby Festé – Starting with a Splash
The 2019 programme starts at 4:30 pm on 27 September with a performance of Splash by Extraordinary Bodies, a circus company, on the Cathedral Green. This will be followed by a special viewing in the Cathedral of Museum of the Moon. Catalan performing circus act Los Galindos will also perform on the Friday, and there will be a Full Moon Parade.
On 28 September, there will be a diverse range of performers. Malaya will see bird on stilts flying around, while children’s cabaret act Fantabulosa can entertain the young and young at heart. The Strong Lady will demonstrate her strength, while Ockham’s Razor’s Belly of the Whale will demonstrate how you can overcome your fears. A full list of acts can be found here.
Derb Festé will conclude with a parade through Cathedral Quarter and St Peters Quarter by Close Act, which will feature giant silver creatures from the future, that finishes at 9pm.
For more ideas of what to do when in Derby, read, Things to Do in Derby: from Pubs to Suffragettes.
When is Derby Festé?
Derby Festé will be on 27 and 28 September, 2019.
To learn more about Derby Festé
Click here.
For tourist information on things to do in Derby
Visit: www.visitderby.co.uk.
Cover photo: Ockhams Razor – Belly of the Whale, Mark Dawson Photography
