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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.

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The Four Fridas, Festival.org, GDIF 2015. Four performers swing from a pole in celebration of the, wearing colourful costumes against a blue sky. life of Frida Kahlo

Productions and Commissions

GDIF - Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Global Streets, 2019 June 21. Joyous Urban Mess_Les Vernisseurs

Global Streets

Cristal Palace by Transe Express, Opening Night GDIF 2019. A giant chandelier spins above a crowd in Woolwich.

GDIF

Greenwich Fair as part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, London, UK, 2019. A man stands on a high pole against the Cutty Sark holding a briefcase and a mobile phone.

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.

Country, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures, Dancing City, Canary Wharf, GDIF 2017. A crowd watches dancers dressed in country riding costumes dance around hay bales.

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.

Liberty 2017, Stalker Teatro. Young people in wheelchairs interact with a giant colourful stick installation.

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.

GDIF 2016. Actors in suits stand on flowerbeds in a council estate surrounded by audience.

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