What’s On

Explore all the events and activities at this year’s bOing! below. Or for a more detailed dive into the programme and timings, click the button on the right to use our new bOing! Planner.

  • DOUBLE YOU

    Performance

    Be Flat

    Double You

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11am & 3pm

    DOUBLE YOU is a circus performance based on the Fear of Missing Out. ‍A playful social experiment in borders and [...]

  • Mika and the Polar Bear

    Performance

    Coalesce Dance

    Mika and the Polar Bear

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.30am & 1.30pm

    Mika has lost their home. It’s too hot and the water has run dry. They must begin an epic adventure [...]

  • Tiny Planet

    Performance

    Half a String

    Tiny Planet

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.15am & 1.30pm

    Imagine a planet no bigger than a house that can be explored in a matter of minutes, yet is the [...]

  • VOLO Dreams of Flight

    Installation

    Studio Gogo

    VOLO: Dreams of Flight

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.30am – 4.30pm (drop in)

    Back to bOing! by popular demand, take flight in one of four award-winning virtual da Vinci flying machines, celebrating Leonardo's [...]

  • Bestlaire Alpin

    Installation

    Theatre Tupine

    Bestiaire Alpin

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    1pm & 2pm - 4.30pm

    An eco-friendly, parent-powered ‘carousel-theatre’ for children aged 6 months to 6 years ‘While the children spin, the parents swing… ” [...]

  • Arboralis Luminarium

    Installation

    Architects of Air

    Arboralis Luminarium

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    Timeslots from 10am

    Arborialis has the natural world for inspiration. Immersion in an arboreal world of tree-like forms and abundant leaf motifs. Arborialis, as [...]

  • Microshakespeare

    Performance

    Toti Toronell

    Micro Shakespeare

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11am – 2pm (drop in)

    In 5 little theatres 5 stories of Shakespeare are staged in only 8 minutes of duration each! The spectator behind [...]

  • Spinsane

    Performance

    Race Horse Company

    Spinsane

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.45am, 4pm

    Spinsane is a circus artist’s rat race that spins around absurdity and on the borderlands of reason. Spinsane warms the [...]

  • Fish Boy

    Performance

    2Faced Dance

    Fish Boy

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11.45am & 2pm

    One boy’s fin-tastic quest to save his river. A story of our times, this poignant yet joyful adventure will captivate audiences [...]

  • Peter and the Wolf

    Performance

    AΦE

    Peter and the Wolf

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10am - 12pm & 3pm - 5pm

    You are invited into the making. Designed for all ages, from newborns to grandparents, with AR devices from ages 5+, [...]

  • InSideWays

    Performance

    Oily Cart Company

    InSideWays (General Session)

    Days: Sun 30 Aug

    11am

    Sensory pioneers Oily Cart are creating a new playspace, and we’d love your family to come along to test out [...]

  • InSideWays

    Performance

    Oily Cart Company

    InSideWays (Early Years)

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    3pm

    Sensory pioneers Oily Cart are creating a new playspace, and we’d love your family to come along to test out [...]

  • InSideWays

    Performance

    Oily Cart Company

    InSideWays (SEND Sessions)

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    1.30pm

    Sensory pioneers Oily Cart are creating a new playspace, and we’d love your family to come along to test out [...]

  • Performance

    Reallynice

    See Saw (General Public Session)

    Days: Sat 29 Aug, 3pm

    Sun 30 Aug, 3pm

    Can you engage your senses and help Sunrise and Sunset rediscover their balance as you play, swing and move? Welcome [...]

  • Performance

    Reallynice

    See Saw (Baby Session)

    Days: Sat 29 Aug, 10am, 1pm

    Sun 30 Aug, 10am, 1pm

    Welcome to the other side of the Sun! Meet Sunrise and Sunset, two siblings who have never met. That’s because [...]

  • Performance

    Reallynice

    See Saw (SEND Session)

    Days: Sat 29 Aug, 10am, 1pm

    Sun 30 Aug, 10am, 1pm

    Welcome to the other side of the Sun! Meet Sunrise and Sunset, two siblings who have never met. That’s because [...]

  • Music

    Live Bands

    bOing! Music Stage

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11am to 4.30pm

    We have a great line up of live bands throughout the day. Just head to the bOing! Music Stage. Sat [...]

  • Roving Performances

    Performance

    Gulbenkian Youth Theatre

    Roving Performances

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    Pop Up Anytime

    Always a highlight of the festival, keep your eyes peeled for crazy characters and imaginative roaming performances popping up across [...]

  • Performance

    Toucan Theatre

    Cheeky Pirates

    Days: Sat & Sun

    Pop Up Anytime

    Come and make some noise with The Cheeky Pirate! Toucan Theatre have set sail to explore bOing! with their multi-sensory trolley PIRATE [...]

  • Silent Disco

    Music

    DJ's

    Silent Disco

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10am – 5pm

    Everyone is invited to the bOing! silent disco.....just let yourself go! The disco will run at various times throughout the [...]

  • Code Kids Lego Robotics Workshop

    Workshop

    Code Kids

    Lego Robotics Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    12pm & 3.30pm

    Use Lego to build smart robots and bring your robot to life using code! Great way of introducing concepts such [...]

  • Minecraft Coding Workshop

    Workshop

    Code Kids

    Minecraft Coding Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.30am & 2pm

    Don’t just let your children play Minecraft, get them coding with it! In this workshop, children will be taught to [...]

  • Workshop

    2Faced Dance

    Fish Boy Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    12.30pm & 2.45pm

    Join the Fish Boy cast for a fun workshop after the show! Work with two dancers from the company to [...]

  • Terrarium Workshop

    Workshop

    FutureProof Zone

    Terrarium Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.30am & 1.30pm

    Build your own mini windowsill rainforest and watch it grow! This workshop will give you all you need to start [...]

  • Clayground

    Workshop

    Canterbury Festival

    Open Clay: Timorous Beasties

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10am – 5pm, drop in

    Open Clay is back! Join us for a fun filled weekend of clay-based creativity and help make a large-scale, animal [...]

  • Workshop

    Docking Station Monster Mash Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    From 10am – drop in

    What happens when physical crafting meets digital magic? Drop into our creative lab to mould your very own unique creature, [...]

  • Workshop

    Medway Fine Printmakers

    Screen Printing Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11am & 3pm

    Super easy screen printing that is so much fun you will find it hard to stop!

  • Cyanotypes Workshop

    Workshop

    The Dakroom Beach Creative

    Cyanotypes Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3pm

    Make magical art using the power of the sun! Bring the whole family along to Beach Creative for a fun [...]

  • Workshop

    Animate Arts

    Crafty Cart

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11.15am, 1.15am, 3.30pm

    Get creative with bOing! favourites Animate Arts and help build a world from cardboard and paper.

  • Workshop

    FutureProof Zone

    Planetarium Dome

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10am - 4.30pm

    The The Wonder Lab Project Planetarium Dome Experience has been specially designed to take children on an immersive and exciting [...]

  • Workshop

    Molly Lambourn

    Collage Workshop

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    11am - 5pm

    Come and make a collage with Fine Artist Molly Lambourn. Returning to bOing! 2026 for a relaxed drop-in session across the festival weekend.

  • Workshop

    Think Visually

    Live Ink!

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10-11 am, 12.30 - 1.30pm & 3-4pm

    Join Think Visually and the Live Ink team on the Registry Lawn as they capture the colour, energy and imagination [...]

  • Sport

    Kent Sports

    Family Zumba

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    10.30am

    Zumba is fantastic for families! It combines upbeat global rhythms with easy-to-follow, high-energy dance routines that can be adapted for [...]

  • Mini Golf

    Sport

    Kent Sports

    Mini Golf

    Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug

    From 10am – drop in

    Enjoy a fun game of mini golf with your family!

  • Film

    Gulbenkian Cinema

    Minions & Monsters

    Days: Sun 30 Aug

    11am

    This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, [...]

  • Film

    Gulbenkian Cinema

    Flow

    Days: 30 Aug

    3pm

    When a flood of biblical proportions washes its home away, a solitary cat must seek refuge with a motley crew [...]

  • Film

    Gulbenkian Cinema

    Up (Relaxed Screening)

    Days: Sat 29 Aug

    3pm

    78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. Booking soon. [...]

  • Film

    Gulbenkian Cinema

    Toy Story 5

    Days: Sat 29 Aug

    11am

    The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, [...]