Sunday 8 September 10 to 4pm in High Wycombe Town Centre will be a day bursting with free family entertainment! Wycombe Celebrates is a brand-new festival for 2024 - a feast for all the senses, celebrating all that makes the town unique– including food, music, arts, heritage, and crafts!
Wycombe Celebrates is part of wider programme of events brought to you by Buckinghamshire Council’s WhizzFizz and partners. Find out more about other WhizzFizz events.
What's on?
High Wycombe’s town centre will be jam-packed with entertainment, workshops, stalls and more from 10am to 4pm on Sunday 8 September.
Be entertained by local bands and spoken word performances, uncover secrets as you explore heritage trails and exhibitions, spark young imaginations with street theatre, crafts, and storytelling, be inspired by our Visual Art Showcase, and savour the flavours of home and distant lands with food activities and stalls.
See below for a taste of what’s planned. We’ll add more as it’s confirmed!
What's on in Wycombe
Family workshops
Try your hand at art and craft making themed workshops, print your own bag, make a story stick and more.
Storytelling
Enjoy stories the way they were meant to be - told out loud. Allow yourself to be whisked away by storytellers Janina Vigurs and Deepna Anoud.
Culinary Capers
Be spellbound by Ian Marchant’s culinary skills. He performs feats with fruit, shows versatility with vegetables, launches legumes, chucks crockery, balances baguettes and displays plenty of daring deeds with dishes! Using audience participation, comedy, skill and a menu of tricks, this show always cooks up a storm.
Artizani presents Bees: The Colony
‘……a surreal, charmingly wacky installation, tended by beekeepers, peep in and find out what the bees get up to when no one is watching.
Jellyfish Theatre - Wagon of Dragons
Jellyfish Theatre roll up with their joyful outdoor show. Come and meet the Dragon Whisperer and fantastical dragons who live in the wonderful "Wagon of Dreams". A playful, inventive family show about friendship, food and DRAGONS set on a retro caravan: packed with puppetry, music and laughter.
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Keep up to date
We’re working hard with our partners to put on a fabulous day for all the family.
Make sure you’re following us on Facebook and Instagram to keep up with all the latest news about Wycombe Celebrates and the other WhizzFizz events: @WhizzFizzOnTour on Instagram and Facebook. And we’ll update here too!
Partners and accessibility
Wycombe Celebrates is a team effort, with lots of community groups and partners working together to celebrate all that makes High Wycombe unique.
With special thanks to:
- Buckinghamshire Council’s WhizzFizz
- High Wycombe Community Board
- Rothschild Foundation
Wycombe Celebrates is part of wider programme of events supported by Buckinghamshire Council’s WhizzFizz, giving all children in Bucks the chance to enjoy cultural events and activities. Find out more about our Opportunity Bucks programme.
Accessibility
We’ll update this with more information before the big day, in the meantime, find out more about accessibility in High Wycombe.
Wagon of Dragons - all performances are relaxed with integrated Sign Supported English.