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.