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WATFORD COLOURSCAPE FESTIVAL 2025
Saturday Aug 22nd to Monday Aug 31st
Colourscape returns to Cassiobury Park in Watford with a full ten-day festival
Our amazing FESTIVAL TWO Colourscape will be installed in Cassiobury Park from Aug 22nd to 31st. Enter a new world of colour and light. Explore a unique labyrinth of about 70 interlinked chambers of intense colours and discover musicians and dancers interacting with you.
Weekends will feature ensembles; dancers; new instruments, computer music. Weekdays will feature resident musician Michael Ormiston presenting family-friendly music where you can join in.
Saturday Aug 22nd : COLOURSCAPE PREVIEW DAY - Explore colour and light with the Colourscape team of artists who can explain the perceptions of colour.
Sunday Aug 23rd: BELLS AND ALPHORNS. A day of Giant instruments and Giant sounds!! Martin Mayes performs on Alphorn (stretching up to 4m across Colourscape chambers), Catalan composer, Llorenç Barber performs on his set of chamber bells and Lawrence Casserley transforms the instruments into computer-processed sounds.
Monday Aug 24th to Friday Aug 28th: our resident musician Michael Ormiston: free-flowing performances and workshops for families. Fantastic for all ages from babies through to 100 year-olds
Saturday Aug 23rd: TBA
Sunday Aug 24th: TBA
Monday Aug 25th: TBA
LOCATION: Near the Bandstand, Cassiobury Park Ave/Shepherds Rd, Watford WD18 7HY. Nearest station Watford Metropolitan Line. Parking in the Cssiobury Car Park, Gade Ave, Watford WD18 7LG then walk up the hill towards the Band Stand
TIMES: From 11 to 4.10pm every day (NOTE - Music plays from 11.30 to 3.30pm - to experience Colourscape in a quieter way the best time is the final 40 mins of the day)
ADMISSION: PRE-BOOKING RECOMMENDED -
ON-LINE BOOKING for our Colourscape Festival in Watford will be available in August.