AN interactive dance show, storytelling adventures and an immersive water show are among the performances set to bring the curtain down on Basingstoke Festival 2023.

Rounding off three weekends of arts in unusual places, there will be something for the entire family across the weekend starting on Saturday, July 8.

Festival-goers can sit back and relax as Pumpkin Pantos presents Teddy Bears Picnic – live, interactive storytelling sessions told by well-known fairy tale characters – at Eastrop Park on Saturday and Tadley Community Centre on Sunday.

For those looking for something with more audience participation, the joy of making up dances to new music will be celebrated in an outdoor dance show for kids and their families from SAY.

The Album: Skool Edition, with performances on both days this weekend, will bring infectious energy and inspire creativity with movement.

At the Top of the Town, visitors can enjoy Eau Du Memoire by Miss High Leg Kick on both days.

A fun, quirky and approachable show, it celebrates the experiences and memories evoked by our sense of smell with artists presenting live ‘perfumances’ with accompanying fragrances, which represent memories of a particular place and moment in time.

On Saturday and Sunday, Look Mum, No Hands! explores a coming-of-age story about two friends testing their own boundaries.

Together they explore freedom, taking risks and independence and seeing how those things change, depending on whether you’re disabled, or not.

Theatre Témoin will make a splash at Eastrop Park on Saturday with performances of Flood.

This show is a new, interactive outdoor family-friendly spectacle, highlighting the health of the world’s oceans. It also offers British Sign Language interpretation incorporated into the show.

Babies and young toddlers will be able to enjoy DIG!, a special show performed by Scratchbuilt Productions.

With showings at 10am and 11am on Saturday at Oakridge Hall for All, the borough’s youngest residents will be entertained by music and singing as part of a gentle first theatre experience.

This weekend, Exit 6 Film Festival will take over at the Festival Hub. Inside Festival Place, visitors will find a packed cast of short films in the mini-cinema and exhibition space. This will be a taste of the main festival which returns on Saturday, September 23.