Just So Festival 2026: A Magical Relaunch with Fresh Glittering Eyes

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Wild Rumpus announces the relaunch of Just So Festival, inviting attendees to immerse themselves in a world of wonder and creativity at Rode Hall. The festival promises a blend of magic, performance, music, and community for all to enjoy.

Imaginary worlds await

The work we create at Wild Rumpus - be that large outdoor festivals and events, or more intimate creative interventions, invite people out of the real world and into fantastical wonderlands where anything can happen! Just So Festival is our most spectacular, technicolour celebration of this imaginary world, and for 2025 we have taken a pause, a moment to reconnect with its creative vision and to dream up what comes next.

Rediscovering the Magic

This summer the woods, parkland, and lakesides at Rode Hall - home to the festival, will be quieter, waiting patiently for the curious inhabitants of the Wild Rumpus world to emerge once again from between the trees in the joyous burst of magic, performance, circus, music, dancing, and community.

 

Published on 30 May 2025 by Ben Robinson

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