Important new for people going to PLaY or thinking of going to PLaY festival:

Mïark - 2024-07-22 12:24:17 UTC #

Important new for people going to PLaY or thinking of going to PLaY festival:

To our wonderful PLaY Community, we bring you both sad and exciting news today.
You will have all seen and heard in the news that across the entire entertainment industry it is becoming increasingly more difficult to deliver events. PLaY is no different and has faced huge challenges this year.
As a result we are deeply sorry to tell you that running a “normal” PLaY Festival is not viable at this point. This year will also be the end of PLaY with the current organising team.

All is not lost, with the support of our gorgeous venue Hopton Court we are working hard to deliver something different for you - an event over the same dates and based on the very essence of PLaY of the past 20 years.
PLaY: The Sunset Gathering
The Sunset Gathering is a chance for all those who formed our community to come together and PLaY for one last time.
PLaY was founded as a community of people passionate about circus and performance art and has grown to be much more than this, and now we want to give it back to the community as we say goodbye.

What is The Sunset Gathering ?
It is a community driven event from 14th - 18th August where we will provide the spaces, venues, facilities and a framework and the PLaY community brings their skills, passion and fun.
While we’ve ideas and special things to bring, we’re asking for you to bring your inspiration and energy to PLaY.. Whether performing, supporting, donating your time or equipment let us know what you’d like to bring. We’ll bring our workshops and event boards and there will be a skeleton programme and opportunities to share your incredible talents, and the wonderful team of Spinning@ and their tent will be joining us as usual.

We invite you, our community and our PLaY family to help - exactly what the Gathering will look like and how we celebrate almost 20+ years of PLaY is down to you. It will be a similar setup to PLaY: Lively Camping in 2021 with our incredible space at Hopton Court, several tents and a stage, days and days of fun and games, and hopefully a caterer or two and bar.
Tickets already purchased will be automatically transferred to The Sunset Gathering, but of course we recognise this change is not for everybody and if you are a ticket holder you should have received by now an email with details if you would like a refund. If you haven't received an email please check your spam / junk folders and if still no joy please email us at info@play-festival.co.uk with your ticket order details

How you can help:
Our ticket shop will be down for a few more days, but in the meantime tell your friends this is their last chance to come to PLaY! When it’s back up later this week please buy your ticket if you haven’t already, consider buying some merch, and please bear with us as we navigate this change of direction.

We’ve many mixed feelings about the end of PLaY and appreciate you may too, but still can’t wait to celebrate, play, dance and come together for the last time for our Sunset Gathering. We hope you can join us.
Much love,
The PLaY team
Xx

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