WORLDBEATERS MUSIC - SPARK!
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Spark! is an energetic street theatre show that combines high impact drumming with kaleidoscopic lighting design. Watch playful characters as they use captivating and dramatic percussion to interact with the crowd and lead spectators on a spellbinding, rhythmic and illuminated journey!

ARTIZANI - ILLUMINATED LOBSTER Á LA CART
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Witness the largest Illuminated Giant Lobster in the universe. A truly arresting sight as it rumbles towards you - filling your field of vision and ticking you with its tentacles. Lobster à la Cart is a huge hit with audiences all over the world and it will surely delight you as it lollops and flops it’s way through the streets of Brightlingsea!

THE URBAN FOX CIRCUS - LED HULA HOOPING
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Watch the incredible hula hooping skills of Harley Fox as she pilots multiple illuminated hula hoops into a magical display of colours, light and blurred rings!

THE WINTER FAF PARADE
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Make sure you catch the beautiful, Winter FAF parade! Featuring many of the acts, lantern workshop participants and various local community groups. It will be an extravaganza of lights, music and illuminated spectacle!

(The parade will loop around Victoria Place, so there are plenty of vantage points to enjoy parade. But you’ll probably hear it before you see it anyway!)

CAROLINE LEWIS - FACE PAINTING
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El CARRAMATO - BIG DANCERS
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Big Dancers is a musical street performance featuring mesmerising giant illuminated puppets with synchronised music and lighting. Tall characters get seriously funky in their colourful costumes of lights, flooding the streets with ‘electro-energy’, creating a street party for everyone, inviting you to warm your toes and wave your arms. An act that will surely make you want to dance your way through the streets!

CIRCO RUM BA BA - THE LIGHT GLIDERS
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Get ready to spin the night away with the Light Gliders as they light up a space with their choreographed colour changing lights, magically turning around the audience, dancing between them, a mixture of ballet dancer and sprite. The Light Gliders are tiny, only four feet high and audiences delight in spinning them round then letting them go to whizz off at speed!

CIRCADIAN - HEART BEATS
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A joyful roaming disco extravaganza! Heart Beats is a comedy DJ booth that will get the party started everywhere it arrives!

​Piloted by our two intergalactic DJ’s & with its larger than life DISCO MIRROR HEART & lighting rig, we play all your classic disco bangers with added live percussion! Heart Beats is sure to make you move whilst putting a big grin on your face!

THE ARTBOX
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Pick up those pens and colour in a giant mural full of wonders! The Art Box is a giant collaborative colouring challenge ideal for small kids and big kids of all ages. Release your inner doodler!

A festival favourite!

Everything else at the festival:

There’ll be plenty to see and do, including a circus skills and games area (always popular) with plate spinning, stilt walking and hula hooping for starters.

There will be a quiet space for visitors to catch their breath and return to a zen like state and community stalls to peruse, including:

• Brightlingsea Allotments
• Clacton Arts Centre
• Brightlingsea Music Group
• Brightlingsea Panto Group
• Hedgehog Highway Rescue

Take a story for a walk around the festival with Tales From The Forest from Funnelwick Limb, and learn how two magical sisters were born in a great oak tree. Then meet Atom & Luna as they go to a strange birthday party!

As usual, there’ll also be giant bubbles galore, floating throughout the festival, courtesy of Grethe Mangala Jensen. We bet you can’t catch them all!

There will also be a selection of talented local artists who will be showcasing and selling their work.

You’ll also find ice cream, tea and coffee, a bake sale and food stalls to give you plenty of energy for a day of silliness!

Look for the pink P-arty Bus where Lucy Weaver will be helping you to make your own slime!

And for the first time at FAF, we have brand new merch, including tote bags and t-shirts! Every sale goes directly toward supporting future festivals, so show your love for FAF and grab some exclusive limited edition merch when you arrive!

Whatever you get up to at FAF this year, we hope you have a fantastically fun and silly day!