PETERBOROUGH Festival is an eight-day extravaganza which runs from June 28 until Saturday July 5.
This year's theme is Summer Fantasy and the festival will begin with the Mayor's Parade from around 11am tomorrow through the streets to Central Park.
Afternoon activities from noon-4.30pm on Saturday and Sunday will include salsa dancing, a fant
asy poetry trail, a meet the artists marquee, circus shows and workshops in a baby big top and lots, lots more.
There are two free evening concerts – with Acker Bilk, pictured right, & His Paramount Jazz Band tomorrow at 7.30pm and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on Sunday at 8.30pm. Take your own seating. Parking is at the nearby college.
Theatrical performances include A Midsummer Night's Dream in Central Park from Mask Theatre from Tuesday-Saturday next week at 7.30pm and Sheridan's The Rivals at the John Clare Theatre on Friday and Saturday next weekend at 7.30pm.
There will be lunchtime music in Cathedral Square or St John's Church all next week and the Space4 Short Film Festival at the Key Theatre.
Brochures and ticket details from the city tourist information centre – 01733 452336.
The Embankment will be the centre of activities next weekend with a Hydromania show on Friday and a big dance celebration on Saturday plus open-air screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Music cruises on the River Nene next week comprise Country Cruisin' with Feet To The Fire on Tuesday and a jazz cruise with The JazzBeens on Wednesday, departing from The Embankment at 6.30pm and 8pm. Tickets £8.50.
- A Responses To Conflict & Loss exhibition by 16 artists will open at the Space4 gallery at Peterborough Museum today, to coincide with Veterans Day. The exhibition follows a successful showcase in The Crypt of St Pancras Church in London. It features work based on locations of 20th century wars, including Cambodia, France and Spain.
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