Brum's Big Splash!

A 60m slip and slide to be installed down Central Street. Tickets are free to book via the Bullring & Grand Central website, and slip and sliders (12+) will be in with a chance of winning Bullring & Grand Central gift cards for turning up in the most stylish and outrageous fancy dress.

Tickets to slide are free but you must pre-book your slot at bullring.co.uk
Brum’s Big Splash is inspired by Luke Jerram’s Park and Slide, which was installed in Bristol in 2014

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Mughal Miniatures by Sonia Sabri

The performance centres around an assuming Classical dancer that is locked in a picture frame. She appears to be a pristine, virtuous princess of the Mughal court, adorned with the finest silks and jewels over her perfect figure for the world to adore, and just as society visualises her to be. Through her urge for self-discovery and to breakdown conventions of the woman she does the unimaginable...come along to see what happens.

A Creative City Grant project generously funded by Birmingham City Council...

CastAway by Highly Sprung

Drowning under a crushing mass of plastic, the Keeper of the Waterways awakens and rises up. It’s time for change.

Highly Sprung’s CastAway is a stunning outdoor performance that explores the impact of today’s throwaway society on our waterways. Featuring a unique gyroscopic flying machine, it presents a brand new approach to aerial theatre. The all-female cast immerses audiences in an underwater world where performers dive, twist and float over 26 feet in the air to delight, inspire and captivate audiences of all ages...

Last Orders by 2Faced Dance

Let’s start a revolution. Down the pub.
Four strangers meet in the local. They could not be more different. But they do have one thing in common…
Thrown together and forced to confront their differences, Last Orders explores the vulnerability beneath male bravado.
With vats of physicality, barrels of humour and a pounding soundtrack, join us down the local as we explore a future where our differences stop dividing us and, instead, we unite over common ground...

Hold On by Stefano Di Renzo

A show where gravity, counterweight and centrifugal force are tested to new limits. Witness a wordless performance of delightful virtuosity where buckets whirl around, cups and balls fly through the air and planks become catapults. All culminating with the charming character holding himself afloat in the air just by the strength of his grip whilst he is precariously balancing on top of the rope he is holding on to. He holds himself up, if he lets go he will fall...

The Tide by Talawa Theatre

Unknown land, new arrivals, boarded doors and a suitcase full of hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Co-created by writer Ryan Cameron and choreographer Jade Hackett, The Tide explores the narratives and experiences of migration within The United Kingdom whilst holding a mirror to an evolving British culture.

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Frock by Stopgap

Six striking dancers collide in an uplifting dance riot accompanied by especially composed original music by Hannah Miller and Oli Austin of Moulettes
In this quirky dance piece, you’ll watch playful observations of the yesteryears explode into a ‘punkish’ celebration of individuality and difference.

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Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band

A living embodiment of this landscape, a spectacular celebration of its vibrant and colourful lifestyle, their music and dance a heady, exciting and hypnotic reflection of this enchanting region.

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Catch That Beast! by Bucket Club

A magical, deliciously silly show about
how we interact with wild things and how the youngest among us might bring about change. Full of humour, live music, inventive puppetry and audience participation, it is suitable for everybody aged 5+...

The Relaxerette

A real eye catcher, de Relaxerette is a unique installation that instantly makes you want to relax and listen to beautiful stories and good music. This installation will ask you the question: ‘What do you truly need to get to your own inner core?’ Listen to a writer, poet, actor or a composer while embarking on your very own quest for an answer to this question...

Steli by Stalker Teatro

Come together in this fun, lively event where you create a huge structure made out of wooden sticks. Once the hard work is done, you can explore your creation by walking under, around and through it!
A bridge between contemporary art and performance, Steli is a stunning, interactive and colourful performance.

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Vibrations by D-Sign Dance Project

Presented by Birmingham 2022 Festival, choreographed by Deaf Men Dancing’s Artistic Director Mark Smith and working with participants who are D/deaf and hard of hearing.

It explores the question "What do you feel when you hear music?” And the motif of the butterfly (a strong symbol in the D/deaf community) through movement and British Sign Language.

D-Sign Dance Project is a collaboration between Birmingham 2022 Festival, Deaf Men Dancing, Black Country Dance Hub and Arts Outburst, inspired by Critical Mass and supported by Spirit of 2012...

WANTOK by Open Theatre

WANTOK brings the stories, songs and cheeky humour of Papua New Guinea and Australia to parks and public spaces across Birmingham this August!

Presented by Open Theatre, this is theatre done differently: outdoors, interactive and accessible to all. A re-imagining of traditional “Sing-Sing” celebrations, WANTOK features bold costumes, music, movement and interactive comedy that educates and entertains. Performances are predominantly non-verbal and compelling to audiences of all ages.

Presented as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival...

Girl Grind x Hippodrome Young Advocates Music Stage

A music stage curated by HYAs and Girl Grind with 10 artists over the weekend presenting multi genre music.

A Creative City Grant project generously funded by Birmingham City Council....

Las Adelitas - Mariachi

Formed in London in 2013, this unique band was born out of the desire to shatter stereotypes within this traditionally male dominated genre. A 7 piece band originally from Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Italy and the U.K they are the only female Mariachi band in Europe...

Lions of Punjab

A Midlands based Bhangra Dance Group with over 85 years of bhangra dancing experience. Performances alongside some of Bhangra and Bollywood’s biggest artists such as Sukhshinder Shinda, Jazzy B, and Diljit Dosanjh.

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Music by Levi Washington

Levi is a one man band loop pedal artist from Warwickshire. His dynamic live show is one of the most exciting in the West Midlands and he gigs 5-6 times per week. In the last year he has headlined a BBC festival in Coventry and supported many known acts in the past! He is also accompanied by Vince who is one of the Midlands most active soul vocalists and business women...

Waack in Brum by Queer-Side

Led by Eric Scutaro, the founder of Queer-Side. This performance will celebrate Waacking as a form of free expression, elegance, trust, love, friendship,
strength, community and rebirth, through "Magic Bird Of Fire", a musical piece that represents all these elements...

Lifeguards by Fairly Famous Family

Have a feeling you are being watched? The lifeguards perch on their lofty ladders and will enforce any rules that they make up on the spot. Forget dive bombing, heavy petting and ducking, these two will call you out of the event just for walking too slowly, drifting without purpose or just eating an ice cream. Rules are rules! And if that doesn’t get you to toe the line, then some good old fashioned warm up and stretching exercises will be enforced. Don’t expect a kiss of life from these two -they’re too busy looking at their own reflections...

Frantic Assembly

Frantic Assembly in collaboration with Birmingham Hippodrome have been working with 12 Hippodrome Young Community members for three days to devise this original piece of theatre. Frantic Assembly are an Internationally renowned Theatre company, known for their ground-breaking approaches to devising and physical theatre...

Reverse Mermaids by Megabeast Productions

Shirt and Squirt by BOSI

The winner gets a shirt, the loser gets a squirt!

Do you know how much blood, sweat and tears it takes to power a water pump? NO.... Not to worry, SHIRT OR SQUIRT will show you. Be the first to pedal push your way to victory. Make enough electricity to power your pump and you’ll empty the “blood sweat and tears” chamber over your opponent...

Tat Vision presents 4 Lads Statue

A tribute the Four Lads in Jeans inspired by them old Greek statues.
These four men are ready for an adventure just like the first bit in Homer's Odyssey, before the adventure.
Made lovingly in pure "bronze" by Tat Vision. ...