Offbeat Festival 2022 Digital Calendar

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Take a look at all the exciting creative opportunities this year’s festival has to offer – outdoors, indoors and online. See you soon.

Jeremy Spafford Director, Old Fire Station Oxford

Louise Chantal Joint CEO, Oxford Playhouse

HOW TO BOOK Tickets for all Oxford Playhouse & Burton Taylor Studio shows, and online shows are available in person or from: 01865 305 305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Tickets for all Old Fire Station, New Theatre and all outdoor shows, are available in person or from: 01865 263 990 www.oldfirestation.org.uk

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Take A Chance

Once Upon An Umbrella

Museum of Maths: Th3 Fr34k 5h0w!

Interactive Pavement Chalking

Riki Cycle

Town Time

The Big Picture

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am – 3pm Use games and art to dream up new ways of being.

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am – 3pm Fed up with school maths? This is the stall for you!

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am – 3pm What would you do with a little bit of extra time?

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am – 3pm Roll the dice to see if you’re making an artwork, or taking one home.

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am – 3pm Chalktastic fun with pictures, puzzles and a chance to get involved.

Sat 16 July, 12pm & 2pm Join a broken brolly on a whirlwind journey for all the family.

Sun 17 July, 12.15pm A family show with original songs and interactive recycling!

Fri 15 & Sat 16 July, 10am - 3pm Paint yourself into a piece of Offbeat history!

ALL THESE EVENTS ARE FREE

– JUST COME ALONG!

Calendar 2022 Events for grown-ups New Voices for a New World Tues 5 July, 4pm Six performed scripts by Oxford Playhouse’s writers on attachment OXFORD PLAYHOUSE | £12

Interdimensional Phishing Scam

Mon 11 – Sun 17 July You may be entitled to compensation! Dial in for a surreal comedy audio experience.

DIGITAL | £5

Ojo Taiye: One Poem Is Enough Sun 17 July, 8pm A poetry performance screened live from Nigeria, about motherhood, intimacy and mental health.

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

Pop Art: A Pop Musical

Mon 11 & Tues 12 July, 7pm Meet characters from art history in this brand-new digital musical.

ONLINE | £10

And I’ll Blow Your House Down

True Birth: A Ritual

OLD FIRE STATION | £10 ALSO A LIVESTREAM EVENT

OLD FIRE STATION | £8

Decommissioned

The Land’s Heart Is Greater Than Its Map

Tues 12 July, 8pm A funny and furious show about family disability.

Weds 13 July, 6.30pm A “clever, witty and intense” play about living and loving in the climate crisis.

Tues 12 July, 1pm A unique performance starring real mothers and babies.

OLD FIRE STATION | £8

Weds 13 – Sun 17 July, times vary An alternative guided tour exploring life under occupation.

Larkhall - Say You’re With Me

Bad Boy Disco

Weds 13 July, 6.45pm Algorithms are art. Coding is creative.

Not convinced? Let this classic pianist and creative coder persuade you.

NEW THEATRE OXFORD | £10

OXFORD PLAYHOUSE | £10 Weds 13 July, 7.45pm Isn’t it a shame we’ll never know who wrote Father Ted? BT STUDIO | £10

Events for grown-ups continued

As We Run We Become

Thurs 14 – Sun 16 July, times vary Are you a woman who runs alone?

Join Jenni Jackson for this one-on-one production.

OXFORD PLAYHOUSE | £12.50

Commonality

Naughty

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

OLD FIRE STATION | £8

Producer Gathering at Offbeat

Cell Outs

STORY MUSEUM (42 PEMBROKE ST, OXFORD) FREE

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

I Heart Michael Ball

Unmade: A Bedroom In Several Parts

Weds 13 July, 8pm Beautiful contemporary dance about what we all have in common.

Thurs 14 July, 11.30am - 5pm A day of free training for producers – by producers. Booking essential.

Thurs 14 July, 7.45pm Welcome to the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society!

Thurs 14 July, 6.30pm “You look 15. I like that.” Award-winning comedy about the infantilisation of women.

Thurs 14 July, 8pm A dark comedy written and performed by two ex-prison officers.

NEW THEATRE OXFORD | £8

Fri 15 July, 7.45pm Step into a bedroom charting a love story across the years.

Késia Decoté: Recollection

Fifteen Years Of Granite

Fri 15 July, 6.30pm A concert of piano and toy piano music, with stories from the UK, Brazil, Japan, and more.

NEW THEATRE OXFORD | £10

NEW THEATRE OXFORD | £10 Sat 16 July, 6.30pm A nail-biting one-man show about the disappearance of a boy on Dartmoor.

OLD FIRE STATION | £8

Going Global

Rhinoceros

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

‘The Unicorn’ by Sam Potter

London, Paris, Amsterdam

Fri 15 July, 8pm Violin, sitar, vocals and classical Kathak Dance from Aradhana Arts.

Saturday 16 July, 7.45pm An unmissable new play about sex addiction from Offie-Award finalist Sam Potter, performed by Georgina Fairbanks.

BT STUDIO | £10

Sun 17 July, 3pm Mandala Theatre adapt Ionesco’s classic play about conformity amid chaos.

Sat 16 July, 8pm A spoken word performance from Jahmar Ngozi about love, creativity and identity.

OLD FIRE STATION | £10

Events for families Catch That Beast!

Once Upon An Umbrella

WELLINGTON SQUARE GARDENS | £5

GLOUCESTER GREEN | FREE

Apple ’N’ Spice

The Stealer Of Stories

Sat 16 July, 11am A magical, deliciously silly show about how we interact with wild things.

Sun 17 July, 11am Indian storytelling, dance and shadow puppetry for the whole family.

BT STUDIO | £8

Sat 16 July, 12pm & 2pm Come and meet some broken brollies in an interactive physical theatre performance.

Sun 17 July, 11am When the unhappy Grimm steals all the stories in the land, it’s up to our heroes to get them back.

WELLINGTON SQUARE GARDENS | £5

Blockbuster Factory

Riki Cycle

CORNMARKET STREET | FREE

GLOUCESTER GREEN | FREE

Sun 17 July 11.30am & 2pm The gang are creating blockbuster movies – and they need your help!

Sun 17 July, 12.15pm What, where and why should we recycle?

Find out with music, puppetry and fun.

The Munch Mission!

Sun 17 July, 3.30pm Solve a fiendishly sneaky art heist in this fun, interactive family theatre show.

BT STUDIO | £8

www.offbeatoxford.co.uk

Performances, workshops, s ie it n u rt o p p o d n a s w o sh r o outdo to get creative, in the heart of Oxford. Come along and join in!

For full listings: www.offbeatoxford.co.uk