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The successful Walking With Giants parade returns this year, with a vibrant street parade including stilt walkers, dance and live music, along with the festival's incredible giant puppets and sculptures. In connection with this year's commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, the parade will also include a life-size bicycle-powered wooden WWI tank. The procession will start at the Hub at 1.30, before heading up Midsummer Boulevard towards a finish in Campbell Park. Refreshments will be available along with an arts…

This friendly, informal exhibition tour is for blind and partially sighted visitors, as well as their carers, family members and friends. Guide dogs are welcome. Audio describer Alex Evans will greet you in the entrance foyer and introduce the exhibition over free tea and biscuits. You will have the gallery to yourselves as it is closed to general visitors on Mondays. You will then visit three exhibition spaces and hear from Alex about selected works on display. No special knowledge…

The Festival of Nations is back on July 30th 2015, will be held at Arts Central and run from 1pm – 9pm. It is all about the celebration of International dance, music, poetry, storytelling, photography, film, fashion show, native dress, games & food!  There will also be a ‘World Art’ exhibition.  It’s about the integration and sharing of our multi-cultural creative communities in Milton Keynes. Arts Central are inviting performers, food and retail vendors, exhibitors, cultural groups, and volunteers to get…

The annual Milton Keynes Filipino Festival returns this year, celebrating Filipino food, music, dance and culture. There will be a traditional fayre and entertainment on offer.

The Milton Keynes City Orchestra will be performing at an evening of uplifting music, fireworks and fizz at the Campbell Park Amphitheatre on 14 August. The precise musical programme is still to be confirmed, but the performance is expected to last approximately two hours, including an interval. Guests are advised to bring their own seating and warm clothes.  Picnics are welcome, however gazebos and BBQs are not permitted, and pets cannot be accommodated. Visitors coming by car are recommended to park at the main shopping…

MK Forum is planning a series of talks as part of the build-up to the city's 50th anniversary in 2017 under the title of "MK Pioneers” and the first event will feature speaker Bill Berrett.  Bill was an architect working for Bucks CC in the early 1960s and one day he was approached by Fred Pooley (the County Architect) to work upon a confidential project for a New Town in North Buckinghamshire, which duly acquired the nickname of “Pooleyville".  Bill personally drew the initial plans…

Artists Gareth Jones and Nils Norman are proposing to take the ideals represented by the unbuilt City Club scheme as a starting point to consider future use of the public spaces around the soon to be expanded MK Gallery. Planned in the 1970s as a unique combination of physical recreation and entertainment, City Club was to be a place where someone could “have a hard game of football, relax in a sauna bath, buy a book, meet friends for a drink in the bar,…

This event is an open session for musicians, sound artists and non-musicians who are interested in exploring improvisation and developing new musical relationships. Artists should bring their own instruments/equipment/objects (and amplification should you require it). MK Gallery will provide the PA, Mics, DIs and the space for exploration. For more information, please see the event page on the MK Gallery website.