**Please Note** Macclesfield Barnaby Festival is currently assessing the situation with regards to hosting workshops and activities in light of COVID-19. We feel that it is safer for our team and participants to postpone the Barnaby Presents workshop on Monday 16th March. We hope that you understand that this is in the interests of people's
Live Stream - First Light Artist Simon Buckley who produces the Not Quite Light project will be presenting his digital commission on Saturday June 20. For Barnaby Festival, Simon is exploring his connection to Macclesfield Forest with a new piece of work Our Future is Ancient. Click here for more detail For First Light, Simon
11.30am warm up and watch party from 12 noon The Barnaby Parade is one of the highlights of the festival bringing people together in a celebration of creativity and community. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic Barnaby Festival cannot hold the parade in the normal way this year, but the festival is working with partners
Get Your Party On! Barnaby Festival is delighted to be partnering with the Silent Adventures UK team for their unique Disco InFurloughs, which will celebrate our Vision theme with a playlist of specially selected music. The aim is to get you off that sofa and showing off your unique repertoire of dance moves, with the
Our Future is Ancient - Last Light We were due to bring you Simon Buckley of Not Quite Light's Our Future is Ancient at last light this evening, approximately 10.30pm. Unfortunately production was not able to go ahead due to police restrictions on visitors to the forest and the wider area. Instead of the full
Comic artist Marc Jackson will be hosting live online cartoon drawing session ‘Funny Vision’ where he’ll be showing participants young and old how to create a crazy character of the future, then in the later session taking that character and having fun creating the world they live in! Being able to still connect with the
Comic artist Marc Jackson will be hosting live online cartoon drawing session ‘Funny Vision’ where he’ll be showing participants young and old how to create a crazy character of the future, then in the later session taking that character and having fun creating the world they live in! Being able to still connect with the
The Barnaby Virtual Reality Parade -Vision 2020 Macclesfield based artist Jacki Clark presents an R&D work in association with Barnaby: the Barnaby Virtual Reality Parade – Vision 2020. This work is part of Barnaby’s work in 2020 to explore alternative, accessible and inclusive events and cultural activities. This responds directly from our open programming sessions
Get Your Party On! For Father’s Day, Silent Adventures UK will be encouraging the Dad’s to get involved in this second edition of Disco In Furlough. Following on from the success of Barnaby Festival’s Dad Dancing competition in 2018 we will be looking to the Dad’s of Macclesfield to shake their booty for this family
Instead of the full film of Our Future is Ancient, which will now take place when restrictions allow, we'll be hosting a LIVE Q&A with Simon on Facebook and on our website Sunday 21st at 6pm.