Timetable

Everything that's on during Merchant City Festival 2025

Friday Music & Storytelling

Check out what you can find at The Social Hub Stage

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 

  • 12pm–12:30pm
  • 2pm–2:30pm

Booking required - £3. Click here to book your ticket.

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Walkabout performance

  • 12pm–12:30pm
  • 1:45pm–2:15pm 

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The Social Hub Stage

12pm–1:45pm

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Bottom of Hutcheson St

12pm–5:30pm

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The Social Hub

  • 12pm–2pm
  • 2:45pm–4:15pm

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Bottom of Hutcheson St

  • 12:30pm-1:15pm
  • 3:45pm-4:30pm

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Walkabout performance

  • 12:30pm-1:15pm
  • 2:45pm-3:30pm

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Garth St or Wilson St Corner

  • 1:15pm–1:35pm
  • 4:45pm–5:05pm

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Walkabout performance

  • 1:15pm-2pm
  • 3:30pm-4:15pm

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Walkabout performance

  • 2pm-2:45pm 
  • 4:15-5pm 

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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

Click below to see what you can expect from each act

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

Click each to see where and when the acts are performing.

Ramshorn Graveyard 

  • 12pm–12:30pm
  • 2pm–2:30pm

Booking required - £3. Click here to book your ticket.

Find out more about the act by clicking here.

The Social Hub Stage

12pm–1:45pm

Find out more about the act by clicking here.

Bottom of Hutcheson St

12pm–5:30pm

Find out more about the act by clicking here.

The Social Hub

  • 12pm–2pm
  • 2:45pm–4:15pm

Find out more about it by clicking here.

Bottom of Hutcheson St

  • 12:30pm-1:15pm
  • 3:45pm-4:30pm

Find out more about it by clicking here.

Walkabout performance

  • 12:30pm-1:15pm
  • 2:45pm-3:30pm

Find out more about the act by clicking here

Garth St or Wilson St Corner

  • 1:15pm–1:35pm
  • 4:45pm–5:05pm

Find out more about it by clicking here.

Walkabout performance

  • 1:15pm-2pm
  • 3:30pm-4:15pm

Find out more about it by clicking here.

 

Walkabout performance

  • 2pm-2:45pm 
  • 4:15-5pm 

Find out more about the act by clicking here.

 

Ramshorn Graveyard

2:30pm-3:30pm

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Booking required - Tickets £6. Click here to reserve a spot

Garth St or Wilson St Corner

5:30pm-6pm 

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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

Click each to see where the acts are performing.