8th Milton Keynes Festival programme announced

Published: 19 June 2025
Reporter: Vera Liber

Luke Jerram's Mars Credit: Hugh Fox
Tania El Khoury's Memory of Birds Credit: C G Baranova
Transe Express's DNA, Vertical Odyssey Credit: Johan Desma

The eighth edition of the biennial IF: Milton Keynes International Festival will return in locations across the town 18–27 July with an international programme of large-scale outdoor spectaculars, installations, performance, theatre, poetry, dance, circus, live music, family-friendly shows, comedy and cabaret.

The programme will feature a pyrotechnic drumming promenade show, more than 2,000 white paper doves in an art-for-peace installation, aerial circus, song and percussion on a 40-metre-high sculpture, performance poet Maureen Onwunali, Luke Jerram’s giant space sculpture, Gandini Juggling’s first-ever work for children, comedy, cabaret and live music in The Stables Spiegeltent and lots more, much of it free.

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