Homestead Park Festival invites the people of York to come together for a FREE weekend of celebration and reconnection with nature, creativity, and community. Set in the historic Homestead Park, the festival will take place over the first weekend of July, bringing artists, musicians, and changemakers to the park to inspire, create, and seed the start of a new way forwards for JRFs work in York. 

Homestead Park Festival is hosted by Joseph Rowntree Foundation in partnership with Wild Rumpus, producers of Timber Festival who specialise in using art and play to deepen nature connectedness. The festival will create a joyful and magical setting for people of all ages and backgrounds with something for everyone. Together, we will demonstrate the fair and flourishing future we all deserve, through stories, theatre, play, discussions and workshops. Share or learn skills during creative workshops, shed the rules and learn to play again as we make creations from the nature around us and build new ways forward.

We welcome you to experience moments of connection as music plays and hope rises, share your stories with us all as we bring our beautiful park to life. Come with friends, bring a big family group, tell your neighbours - we can’t wait to see you there!

Festival Highlights:

• Live Music in the Woodland Setting: Enjoy performances from some local favourites and national artists in the park's enchanting woodland.

• Creative Engagement & Family Friendly Activity: Participate in breathtaking theatre performances, interactive play and run wild in the park’s temporary woodland playground

• Diverse Speaker’s Programme: Enjoy campfire stories and engage with thought-provoking discussions and workshops by some exciting movement leaders like Amahra Spence, Ella Saltmarshe, Jon Alexander, Evie Meur, Anab Jain and many more. 

• Hands-On Workshops: Try your hand at nature-based crafts and activities that foster creativity and connection.

• Delicious Food and Drink: We have some great food vendors offering food and drink with a range of dietary needs catered for throughout the weekend. You are also very welcome to bring your own food and drink into the Festival. Alcohol is not on sale at the festival, but you are welcome to bring your own.

• Joy, imagination, and collective action: Because in uncertain times, play might just be what we need most.
   

Click here for our website. Get a feel for what is coming through our promo video.