Hightide Festival

Enjoy while you can. Once the trees are felled and the tower blocks built there will be no land left for the festival!

Hightide Walthamstow

Hello,

I’m writing about the upcoming HighTide Festival in Walthamstow. Returning for its second year between 18-30 September after success in 2017, the programme is made up of new theatre, comedy, music and this year the site will be expanded to include bar area with two tepees and a rotating menu of food provided by local suppliers.

Straight to Walthamstow from acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Festival include two brand new pieces of gig-theatre Sparks and Songlines. Sparks explores how we deal with grief, and Songlines includes live folk from TRILLS – recently acclaimed as Britain’s answer to Haim. There will be a grown up magic show in The Extinction Event and a comedy musical about Nordic gods in Thor and Loki as well as Busking It – a play with songs about the playwrights experiences busking around London and drawing on tales taken from years of busking on the tube, blending chance encounters with live music.

Locally, the Festival are looking for local talent for their Stars Over The Forest young people’s showcase at the Festival on 22 September. They will be holding three nights of open mics on 4,5,6 September to select performers for the evening at the Festival.

Last year HighTide became the first fixed space theatre in the borough and so they are delighted to come back to the Waltham Forest area.

It would be great to know if you might be interested in covering the Festival – chatting to the producers about how they are bringing their Festival but tailoring it so it’s a truly local experience, or to any of the writers about their plays? Do also let me know if you’d like to come along to anything.

Look forward to hearing from you, more info here and attached.

Best

Maisie

Maisie Lawrence

Senior Publicist

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