Timetable
Friday Music & Storytelling
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12noon - 1pm
Performance starts in the Ramshorn Graveyard
2pm-2:30pm
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Booking required - Tickets £6. Click here to reserve a spot
2:30 - 3:30pm
3:30 - 4:30pm
4:30 - 5pm
5 - 6pm
7 - 8pm
9 - 10pm
Pop-up performances from 12 noon - 1pm
15 minute sessions throughout the day
Bringing carnival style big puppets to the Ceilidh Carnival
5 - 6pm
Saturday Family Theatre with Imaginate
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Saturday & Sunday 11:00am, 12:45pm and 3:00pm with Pom Pom Crafting all day.
The Prom Pom Queen and her Pom Pom Pet promenade through Merchant Square and beyond offering playful interactions. You can even make your own pompom!
Saturday ONLY at 11:45am, 2:15pm and 4pm
A pop-up dance performance featuring two regency-esque aristocrats preparing for a grand ball, dressed in extravagant wigs and ornate costumes. Challenging gender, class and identity, it disrupts societal norms and celebrates self-expression.
Saturday & Sunday 12:30pm, 2:15pm and 3:45pm
Then What is an action-packed fast paced dance performance bursting with thrilling lifts and exciting movements that will exhilarate the audience.
Saturday & Sunday 1:15 - 1:45 pm
Sparkling unicorns Melody and Luna are looking for new unicorn pals and they've heard there are some at Merchant City Festival! They'll be throwing the best dance party ever so be sure to come along!
With easy-to-follow-along moves, visual spectacle, and “unicorn sparkles”, they help unlock people’s inner unicorn and find the joy within us all.
Saturday & Sunday 11:30am and 3pm
Join in for a spin and a burl at our family ceilidh dancing sessions!
Saturday Street Theatre with Surge Festival
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Ramshorn Graveyard
2:30pm-3:30pm
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Booking required - Tickets £6. Click here to reserve a spot
Bottom of Hutcheson St
No specific time, keep an eye out!
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Saturday Music Programme at The Social Hub Stage
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Sunday Family Theatre with Imaginate
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Saturday & Sunday 11:00am, 12:45pm and 3:00pm with Pom Pom Crafting all day.
The Prom Pom Queen and her Pom Pom Pet promenade through Merchant Square and beyond offering playful interactions. You can even make your own pompom!
Sunday ONLY at 11:00am, 2:30pm and 4:00pm
1, 2, 3 resilient mushrooms! tells a story through ceilidh dancing, physical storytelling and Scottish traditional music of a landscape, treated poorly and almost abandoned, but not just yet, not by the mushrooms.
Saturday & Sunday 12:30pm, 2:15pm and 3:45pm
Then What is an action-packed fast paced dance performance bursting with thrilling lifts and exciting movements that will exhilarate the audience.
Saturday & Sunday 1:15 - 1:45 pm
Sparkling unicorns Melody and Luna are looking for new unicorn pals and they've heard there are some at Merchant City Festival! They'll be throwing the best dance party ever so be sure to come along!
With easy-to-follow-along moves, visual spectacle, and “unicorn sparkles”, they help unlock people’s inner unicorn and find the joy within us all.
Saturday & Sunday 11:30am and 3pm
Join in for a spin and a burl at our family ceilidh dancing sessions!
Sunday Street Theatre with Surge Festival
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Ramshorn Graveyard
2:30pm-3:30pm
Find out more about the act by clicking here.
Booking required - Tickets £6. Click here to reserve a spot
Bottom of Hutcheson St
No specific time, keep an eye out!
Find out more about the act by clicking here.
Sunday Music Programme at The Social Hub Stage
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