bOing is back Sat 26 & Sun 27 Aug 2023! Check out all of our performances below…
Festival for all ages
All Events
The Kent Community Oasis Garden
Creative Nature Trail: Guided Walk with KentCOG
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The Kent Community Oasis Garden Coordinator, Debi Adams, will also be leading guided walks of the creative nature trail at 11am and 2pm each day encouraging participants to engage with…
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Jasmin Vardimon Company
JV2: Canvas
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Choreographed by Gulbenkian Associate Artist Jasmin Vardimon MBE, Canvas invites the audience to come up close around a massive canvas. Using the dancers movement as brush strokes a picture slowly…
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Family Film: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
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After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when…
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Family Film: Elemental
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In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually…
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Relaxed Screening: Elemental
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In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually…
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Family Film: The Little Mermaid
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“The Little Mermaid” is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant,…
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Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Buchettino
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Images of chirping birds and howling wolves are roused through the enchanting blend of a dark dormitory and the sounds of the forest. Join us for this unusual bedtime story.
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Architects of Air
Dodecalis – Luminarium
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The ‘Dodecalis’ Luminarium is an immersive and interactive sculpture and designed to evoke wonder at the beauty of light and colour
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Starcatchers
Falling Star
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Falling Star is twinkling, cheerful story for wee ones all about stars, outer space and finding your place.
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Oily Cart
The Lost Feather: A Sensory Storytelling Adventure
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Oily Cart’s unique brand of multi-sensory mayhem is opening up the cart -bursting with colours, textures, music and puppets – to discover the story of The Lost Feather.
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Reckless Sleepers
It’s Hot, It’s Not
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This surreal, funny and carefully crafted physical performance explores the weather in all its forms from summer to autumn, winter to spring and takes delight in discovering the world anew
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Barrowland Ballet
Playful Tiger
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Playful Tiger tells the story of a tiger’s visit to a rigid family home where he turns their world upside down.
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Simple Cypher
Roll Model
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A circus and Hip Hop mash up about how we’re shaped by those we spend time with.
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Avant Garde Dance
S.C.R.U.M.
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Avant Garde’s trademark synaesthesia of hip-hop, contemporary dance and captivating soundtrack unfurl in this electrifying 35-minute show for all ages.
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Confidance
Confidance Workshop – Dive into Dance!
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Kids, parents, friends and family - come and get creative with Confidance!
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Avant Garde Dance
S.C.R.U.M. Dance Workshop
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Join the team at Avant Garde Dance to learn their trademark blend of hip-hop and contemporary dance!
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The Yoga Man
Yoga with Simeon Wright
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The classes are also a space where children can be self expressive, creative, improve their flexibility and strength , meet new people and grow in self confidence.
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Animate Arts
Animate Arts – Paper Bugs Workshop
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Join artists from Animate Arts for another brilliant, inspirational cardboard crafting session.
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Division of Natural Sciences, University of Kent
Cool Science
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Explore the world of cool science with our interactive liquid nitrogen show!
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Code Kids
Lego Robotics Workshop
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Use Lego to build smart robots and bring your robot to life using code and introduce concepts such as engineering to kids.
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Code Kids
Virtual Reality Coding Workshop
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Learn to code in a virtual world in the palm of your hand. Give your 3D creations behaviour, animation, and movement. Interact with a virtual world entirely created by you.…
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Kent Sport Mini Sessions
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Our friends at Kent Sport are offering some brilliant free activities at bOing! 2023
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Music for Change
Global Sounds Stage
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Music for Change have created a brilliant line up of music perfomances and workshops for all ages on our Global Sounds Stage at the bOing! Hilltop from 11am - 3pm.
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Rimski's Yard
Rimski & Handkerchief
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Rimski & Handkerchief are a curious spectacle indeed, as they meander among the crowds with their marvellous musical machines: the Bicycle Piano and Double Bassicle… Singing timeless songs of momentous,…
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Mrs H and the Singalong Band
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Join members of Mrs H and the Sing-along Band at bOing! Festival. Bring your voices, silly dances and a sprinkling of mischief!
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Bollywood Brass Band
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A huge hit at festivals and street parades, the Band bring their sounds to bOing! for the second time.
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Future Human Gallery
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You will have the chance to draw, build, paint, or model your own ‘future human’ and add it to the growing gallery created across the two days of the festival.
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The FutureProof Zone
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The FutureProof Zone at bOing! is all about our planet and what we can all do to look after it.
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ART31
bOing! Young Performers
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Look out for our very own Gulbenkian young performers around campus over bOing! weekend!
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