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Ip-Art Festival at IpswichIp-Art Festival at Ipswich

The Ipswich Arts Festival, the town's annual summer arts festival featuring an exciting programme of events across a multitude of venues and art forms.

This year Ip-art sees a positively pulsating programme of local, national and international talent make up an exciting and stimulating summer of festivities for Ipswich in 2013.

The festival launches with a weekend of free events as "Celebrate Ipswich" brings fairies to the Cornhill, craft markets to St Peter's Street and Ironmen to the Waterfront.

Christchurch Park is once again the scenic backdrop to festival favourites, including the exotic tempos and flavours of Global Rhythms and the Indian Summer Mela, as well as local talent and superstar making showcase Ipswich Music Day.

The park also sees Brian Blessed hosting The Film Night Spectacular, with a firework finale. We're not sure if he'll be donning his Flash Gordon wings but it's certainly set be one this year's highlights. Sherlock Holmes will be investigating some curious goings on at the Mansion Lawn as the Pantaloons perform the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective. There will be plenty of laughs as Silent cinema's Golden Years of Comedy come to DanceEast's Jerwood DanceHouse, with Chaplin and Keaton classics accompanied by a live pianist. And if that's not enough for you we have something a little different in the form of the spectacular Big Top where you'll be entertained by international burlesque, vaudevillian circus performers, fire breathers, aerial artistes and the weird and generally wonderful Benjamin Bloom. So get down to the festival this summer, it's elementary my dear.

Since 2006, literature has been a major part of the Ip-art festival, growing in scope and ambition - so much so that in 2013 it becomes a stand-alone event in the autumn. Literary Ipswich runs from 2nd to 6th October.

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Dates and Times
Dates Times
Fri 21 Jun 2013 - Sun 7 Jul 2013
   
 
 

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Town Centre, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DP

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