Dhol Drummers at Our Biennale

Saturday 2 July, 11am-3pm

Venue: The Piazza, Princess Alexandra Walk, HD1 2RS

Ticket price: Free (no booking required)

Age guidance: all ages

Head down to the Piazza for a day of carnival celebration, with exhibitions, parades, performance workshops, flash mobs – and the Sangam Festival Dhol Drummers.

Our Biennale is a festival of arts and culture made with children and young people in Kirklees. Throughout the festival musicians, artists, theatre-makers, and choreographers work with schools, colleges, and communities to enable children and young people to make their very own remarkable pieces of music, art, poetry, drama, and dance.

As well as the Dhol Drummers, the Magnificent Me Piazza Parade will show what remarkable creations the children and young people have achieved working with Kirklees artists and arts organisations for Our Biennale 2022.

A Parade at 1.30pm featuring magnificent puppets, instruments, costumes, flags & more, plus:

Flash mob dances

Performance & circus from Poppins Presents

Tooting, whistling, plinking & parping gizmos from Orchestra of Objects

Performance by Shabang

Junk Samba with Rhythm Stick Drumming

Art installations & exhibitions

Funky junk workshops with Satellite Arts

Stilt walkers