GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah!
Part of On Your Doorstep, Greenwich Fair and Healing Together
28 - 30 August & 11 September
Duration: 25 mins
What to Expect: Great for Kids
Free
Join Messy Mama T and Tiny Tidy T on a feast of food fusion and storytelling across geography and generations, in this immersive and vibrant family friendly circus show. Once all the lemons have been juggled, the plates spun, and the flaming pans put out, it’s time for the grand finale, where the clumsy assistant finally gets to taste the food!
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Access
Site Access
Site specific information can be found on the dedicated event pages – On Your Doorstep Deptford | Greenwich Fair | On Your Doorstep Thamesmead | Healing Together.
Show Access
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Assistance Dogs Welcome
- BSL Interpreted (Greenwich Fair & Healing Together)
- Audio Described
- Relaxed Introduction
Access content will be available online via your mobile phone. Please bring a charging pack if you are concerned about battery use.
Brochure
Large-print and Easy Read versions of the festival brochure will be available to download in advance or to pick up on the day. Visit our Access page for more information.
Content & Trigger Warnings: This show includes some small pyrotechnics, smoke, fire, some loud noises- banging of pans, shouting and music.
Notes for Audience
Arrive 5 minutes early for the pre-show introduction. The company is embedding some Audio Description qualities into the performance.
There is some audience interaction in this show, all goods are sanitised and each show has fresh props that are not touched for 12 hours before.
Where to find it
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah will be performed at:
On Your Doorstep: Deptford – Twinkle Park, Deptford, SE8 3FY | 28 August
Greenwich Fair – King Charles Lawns, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9NN | 29 August
On Your Doorstep: Thamesmead – Claridge Way, The Moorings, Thamesmead, SE28 | 30 August
Healing Together – Royal Victoria Gardens, Royal Docks | 11 September
Twinkle Park, Deptford
28 August
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
29 August
Claridge Way, Thamesmead
30 August
Royal Victoria Gardens
11 September
About the company
Just More is a family-led company from first and second-generation alternative travelling circus community. Having collaborated as mother and daughter, they started a journey bringing food history and circus performance together. Through their shared experience they created a vibrant environment bringing people and cultures together.
Supported by
Do What Your Mama Told Yah! 2021 Tour is supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Stockton International Riverside Festival and Just So Festival.
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah! Originally commissioned in 2019 by Wales Outdoor Arts Commissioning Consortium. Supported via Articulture by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government, and the National Lottery.
GDIF is supported by Arts Council England, Royal Greenwich Festivals, Peabody, Royal Docks, and Without Walls.