🎊 FREE Midsummer Festival 2025 in Milton Keynes

Sunday 22 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 22:00 Price: £0.00
🎊 Midsummer Boulevard East will once again be transformed into a vibrant hub of music, arts and family-friendly activities inspired by themes of renewal, healing and health.
😍 WHAT TO EXPECT
The festival will feature an exciting mix of live music, street theatre, folklore-inspired art, and hands-on workshops, all free to enjoy. Visitors can also indulge in delicious pop-up street food curated by local favourite, Sophie etc., available throughout the day and into the evening.
🤩 THE PROGRAMME
While the full programme is still being finalised, highlights already confirmed include:
⭐️ Leap Then Look: A new interactive art commission
⭐️ Bernadette Russell: A captivating storytelling performance reclaiming the image of fairies as wild, punk-spirited protectors of the earth
⭐️ Wild Rumpus and the Pavilion of the Hopeful Sun: Hosting the enchanting ‘Ceremony of the Seed’
📍WHERE CAN I FIND YOU?
Midsummer Festival takes place on Midsummer Boulevard (see map below), which is famously aligned with the sun at summer solstice. The Festival site is opposite MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Theatre. what3words for the Festival location is dolphin.conspire.data
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ℹ️ ARE YOU AN ORGANISATION WHO WANTS TO TAKE PART?
The city council is inviting artists, creatives, and cultural organisations to submit ideas for a new commission to feature in the festival programme. Those interested can apply on the city council’s website.
⛔️ ROAD CLOSURE
Midsummer Boulevard East will be closed to traffic during the event. Diversion signs will redirect motorists, and buses will operate from alternative stops outside The Point on Lower Tenth Street.
😍 WHAT TO EXPECT
The festival will feature an exciting mix of live music, street theatre, folklore-inspired art, and hands-on workshops, all free to enjoy. Visitors can also indulge in delicious pop-up street food curated by local favourite, Sophie etc., available throughout the day and into the evening.
🤩 THE PROGRAMME
While the full programme is still being finalised, highlights already confirmed include:
⭐️ Leap Then Look: A new interactive art commission
⭐️ Bernadette Russell: A captivating storytelling performance reclaiming the image of fairies as wild, punk-spirited protectors of the earth
⭐️ Wild Rumpus and the Pavilion of the Hopeful Sun: Hosting the enchanting ‘Ceremony of the Seed’
📍WHERE CAN I FIND YOU?
Midsummer Festival takes place on Midsummer Boulevard (see map below), which is famously aligned with the sun at summer solstice. The Festival site is opposite MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Theatre. what3words for the Festival location is dolphin.conspire.data
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ℹ️ ARE YOU AN ORGANISATION WHO WANTS TO TAKE PART?
The city council is inviting artists, creatives, and cultural organisations to submit ideas for a new commission to feature in the festival programme. Those interested can apply on the city council’s website.
⛔️ ROAD CLOSURE
Midsummer Boulevard East will be closed to traffic during the event. Diversion signs will redirect motorists, and buses will operate from alternative stops outside The Point on Lower Tenth Street.





