Winscombe community festival of Arts and Nature

12th July 2026 12.30-18.00 Winspace and field

In 2025 we piloted our first intergenerational community festival of Arts, Culture and Sustainability in Winscombe, North Somerset, bringing together the community to celebrate, create and enjoy the sunshine.

This years festival boasts vibrant activities and performances for the community of Winscombe and surrounds. The festival is all about celebrating and deepening our connection to nature, forming and strengthening intergenerational relationships, and encouraging creativity through music, visual arts, theatre and food.

There will be free workshops to take part in, in Circus skills, living soil, butterfly collage, bird feeder weaving and flower crown making. Live music, circus, storytelling, walkabout theatre, refreshments and interesting stands about nature based projects in our area.

Watch this space for line-up coming soon!

If you are interested in volunteering to help deliver Winscombe Festival please email Tomasin on soapsouptheatrecompany@gmail.com

Last year we created a 50 foot Mural on The Strawberry Line alongside a public consultation, and there were community painting days to get involved with in the run up to the festival.

This year we are creating a large installation alongside award winning artist Fiona Campbell, using the theme ‘Communities in the landscape’. We have been working with Winscombe, Banwell and Sandford Primary schools, Churchill Academy, Sewell House and Trigger’s Humanity Hotel to co-design and create the piece which will be unveiled at this years festival!

There will also be The Pollinator Parade to join, led by the Axbridge Street Band, so come dressed as your favourite butterfly, moth, bee, fly or anything else that takes your fancy! You can join us on the 28th of June from 2pm-4.30pm for a costume making workshop at Winscombe Community Centre if you feel like you need a bit of inspo to create your look!

Intergenerational work seeks to create a wider understanding of one another through connections, friendships, learning and research…

Artwork by Art club member

The retaining wall before we created The Strawberry Line Mural

The Strawberry Line Mural on completion

Last year we achieved:

  • A Mural project, created alongside a public consultation & commissioned by Strawberry Line Society

  • 6 Pop-up choir rehearsals at Winscombe Hall care home, and for residents & public.

  • 6 classes in crafts, creating costumes, puppets & masks, at Winscombe Hall care home, & 5 more classes in 2 local refugee accommodations, supported by Trigger

  • 6 classes in parade puppet making in Winscombe and Sandford Primary Schools, Churchill Academy & at our Art Club

  • A community masked parade

  • Live music performed by local talent

  • Performances by our pop-up choir

  • Invited The Beekeepers society and Strawberry Line society to bring stands about their work

  • Environmental arts workshops on the day in seasonal wreath and crown making

  • Other creative arts workshops including Circus skills, pebble decoration, and mask masking

  • A Village Feast, served from our community kitchen, hosted by Winscombe Community Centre

Mural Artists Tomasin Cuthbert and Alice Cunningham in front of their work

Residents in a care home sit happily amongst families with small babies, surrounded by colourful bunting, and sitting on chairs decorated with colourful blankets

…Connections between the generations have been proven to reduce loneliness in older people, evoke feelings of joy and happiness, and uproot stigmas caused by ageism.

Melissa Pollard - Alive Activities