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The UEL After Dark Festival returns with the theme Fire & Circus! You’ll be able to enjoy captivating fire displays, acrobatic performances, fun workshops, a community parade, and much more. Whether you’re here to explore, create or simply be inspired, the UEL After Dark Festival promises a night to remember! at University of East London

UEL: After Dark Festival

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The UEL After Dark Festival returns with the theme Fire & Circus! You’ll be able to enjoy captivating fire displays, acrobatic performances, fun workshops, a community parade, and much more. Whether you’re here to explore, create or simply be inspired, the UEL After Dark Festival promises a night to remember!
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27th February 2025
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Hosted at our Docklands campus, creativity, culture and connection will be taking centre stage with the UEL After Dark Festival returning this winter!

Prepare to be captivated by fire displays, dazzling acrobatic performances and hands-on workshops to spark your creativity. Join us at 5.30 pm on an illuminated community parade through the campus to SportsDock, which will be transformed for one night only into a Big Top! After Circus Pzazz’s show from 6:15-7 pm, you can try out your own juggling and monocycle skills at our drop-in workshops. Other mesmerising acts will include:

  • Air Giants with Luma 
  • Worldbeaters Spark!
  • Lightfires’ music and fire installations
  • The dazzling Show Globes, all four together for the very first time
  • Circo Rum Baba’s Light Gliders
  • Murmuration Arts’ four Lullaby installations, a perfect performance to captivate younger families

UEL After Dark is free of charge and open to everyone, with a range of local street food on offer to warm up your winter evening. Book your place for a chance to come together, try something new and celebrate the energy and diversity of our East London community.

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Available dates
27th February 2025
show all dates
Suitable for
Events for School and College Groups (Ages 7-11)
Events for School and College Groups (Ages 11-14)
Events for School and College Groups (Ages 14-16)
Events for School and College Groups (Ages 16-18)
Events for individuals (enquiry not required to be through a school)
Teachers (CPD)
Parents
Families
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