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FESTIVAL.ORG is one of the UK’s leading outdoor arts producing organisations. We commission, re-imagine, produce and showcase a growing repertory of work that brings public spaces to life and is engaging and inspiring large, diverse audiences.

Image: Global Rainbow in Birmingham as part of Global Streets.
Taken by Simon Hadley.

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Twelve illuminated life-size swans swim in formation and cast reflections on the dark water on which they swim. Half of the swans are blue and face right, the other half are red and face left.

GDIF 2023

Productions and Commissions

Global Streets

Consultancy

Fly by Night, Duke Riley, LIFT, GDIF 2018. Lights swirl above a building in a sunset sky in Thamesmead, created by pigeons.

Women of Woolwich Rise, L'Homme Debout and Festival.org, GDIF 2018. A giant puppet wearing a suffragette sash is surrounded by people carrying placards in Woolwich.

Beautiful Thing, Festival.org, Robbie Graham, GDIF 2018, Thamesmead. A concrete building is lit up with projections, dancers surround it and dance on the balconies.

Mulier, Cia Maduixa, Dancing City, Canary Wharf, GDIF 2017. 5 women on stilts dance in front of a crowd. The shard and the river Thames are in the background.

Sense of Unity, DUNDU, GDIF 2017. A giant light-up puppet reaches towards a crowd at a nighttime performance.

Sadiq Khan shakes hands with a man in a wheelchair, surrounded by crowds, young people in wheelchairs, and a TV camera. Festival.org.

GDIF 2014-Arka_Teatr-Osmego-Dnia. Performers wheel devicees with flaming window flames attached, lighting up the sky and watched by a crowd.

A-View-from-the-Bridge-de-Roovers, GDIF 2017. Three actors perform on an outdoor stage in Greenwich with Canary Wharf behind.

Dedicated To..., Candoco Dance Company, Dancing City, GDIF 2018. A crowd watches a dancer in a wheelchair and a dancer with one arm in Canary Wharf.

A volunteer in a pink t-shirt hands out VR headsets at Greenwich Fair, at GDIF.

Heritage Flame Ceremony, Festival.org. Brightly coloured panels and feather flags are lit up and fireworks go off.

Great North Star - A large crowd on the banks of the River Tyne watching a fireworks display.

GDIF 2015, Greenwich Fair. Crowds gather round the Cutty Sark and pink flags to watch an outdoor arts show on a sunny London day.

Photos by David Levene, Doug Southall, Stu Mayhew, Victor Frankowski, Camilla Greenwell, Michelle Walker, James Berry, Warren King, Steve Eggleton, GLA and Jimmy Lee