Winchester Hat Fair is the UK’s longest running Street Arts festival and this year it celebrates its 35th birthday with four days of fantastic outdoor performance and live entertainment.

Hat Fair continues to uphold its reputation for presenting innovative and beautiful outdoor performances, exciting, unique and highly skilled small-scale shows and an engaging programme of community arts and education, woven into the heart of the beautiful city of Winchester.

This year’s programme again features artists from all over the globe, from as far a field as America, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and all over Europe. Special highlights on the small scale line-up this year include The Incredible talents of Los Dos Play, Mario Queen of The Circus and Orkestra Del Sol and many more circle acts that you will not have seen the likes of before. Over the weekend there will be some wonderful and interactive Installations around the town, Cathedral Green and Close including, The Insect Circus Museum, The Amazing Camera Obscura and Bootworks new show, ‘Little Box of Horrors’ to name but a few. Look out for Close Acts breathtaking show ‘Saurus’, the wonderful Flying Buttresses and many many more walkabout acts to surprise and entertain you.