Watermans - Outdoor Performance and New Media Art: Live & Digital

08/09/2026

Next up Bell Square - Art & Performance

🔥 Redefining dance from the African Diaspora.
Choreographed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly (speaking in the video).

ACE dance and music bring their explosive new piece ECHOES OF DUST to Hounslow.

Combining powerful contemporary choreography with driving rhythms, this performance explores human connection and resilience when the world shifts around us.

📍 Bell Square, Hounslow High Street

🗓 Saturday 19 September , 3.30pm & 7.30pm

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

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✨ A love stronger than death? Or an illusion of the mind? ✨

Following last year’s breathtaking performance of Tempest, the thrilling Polish outdoor theatre company returns to Bell Square with their spectacular new open-air production: Eurydyka (Eurydice). 🎭🔥

Directed by Paweł Szkotak, this gripping show reimagines the timeless myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Watch Orpheus wander the border of reality and a rat-infested underworld, battling his deepest fears to find his beloved. Meanwhile, Eurydice fights for survival inside the maze of his imagination.

Expect stunning visual design, haunting music by Łukasz Matuszyk, and a powerful, boundary-pushing performance under the night sky. 🌌

📅 Date: 5 September 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM (60-minute running time)
📍 Location: Bell Square, Hounslow High Street
🎟️ Price: FREE! No tickets required.

Bring your friends, arrive early to get a good spot, and experience world-class street theatre right here in the square. See you there! 👋

For more info link in our bio or visit: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/bell-square-2026-teatr-biuro-podrozy-eurydyka-eurydice/

01/09/2026

31/08/2026

Arts centres change lives – and now there’s clear evidence of how.

We’ve launched a new Model of Change that shows how creativity and culture help people feel welcome, build confidence, connect with others, and find new direction over time.

From first visits to lifelong involvement, arts centres create the conditions where change becomes possible – for individuals, communities and places.

We’d love to hear your stories. How has your local arts centre made a difference to you, your friends or your family?

💬 Share your experiences below and explore the research: https://futureartscentres.org.uk/model-of-change-identifies-how-arts-centres-deliver-transformational-change-for-communities-and-lives/

(Photograph: MAC Birmingham. Photography by Greg Milner.)

28/08/2026

🎧 Have you ever truly listened to the sounds of where you live?
As part of this year's Creative Mile, Brentford Art Trail Watermans is thrilled to present Sound of Hounslow: Transit Tonalities In Situ by multidisciplinary artist

This outdoor sound exhibition brings together local voices, memories, personal histories, and shared experiences to create a central, immersive soundscape.

Developed in collaboration with the local community, it explores the everyday, familiar, and sometimes obscure sounds of our borough—from nature and ecosystems to transit and our rich musical heritage.
Take a moment to pause, listen, and connect to our local area in a completely new way.

📍 Where: Creative Mile, Brentford 🗓 When: Saturday 5 – Sunday 6 September 2026 🎟 Cost: Free! 🔗 Details: watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873662620/events

21/08/2026

Tomorrow sees ERTZA at Bell Square - Art & Performance with

Sat 22 Aug, 1pm & 3pm

Experience time through the power of dance.
The curiosity of an acrobat and a juggler leads them to seek each other out, in a show that combines exceptional dance, acrobatics and juggling. In the West, time is measured, bought, sold, planned and organised... but there is almost never enough of it. By contrast, in Africa time is experienced, it is something you have, something you do, an asset that is almost never lacking. Otempodiz is the result of an exchange and creation project between Euskadi and Mozambique, which shows the power of dance for experiencing time in an absolute present.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

18/08/2026

⏰ YOU HAVE THE CLOCK. WE HAVE THE TIME.

What if we stopped measuring time — and started experiencing it?

🌍 Otempodiz brings together artists from Euskadi and Mozambique in a joyful, physical encounter between dance, acrobatics and juggling.

In the West, time is something we measure, organise, buy and sell. But in many parts of Africa, time can be understood differently: something to live, share and experience.

Two performers meet. They play. They move. They search for each other.

And suddenly, the clock doesn't seem quite so important.

✨ ERTZA – Otempodiz
📍 Bell Square, Hounslow
📅 Saturday 22 August
🕐 1pm & 3pm

10/08/2026

📸 The nationwide tour of Our Freedom: Then and Now continues this August, with two new presentations in arriving in Yorkshire.

The exhibition will be on display at:

• Barnsley Civic, South Yorkshire: 11 August – 3 September
• Leeds Libraries (Leeds Central Library), West Yorkshire: 11 August – 3 September

Created from 60 locally led photography projects, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the freedoms gained 80 years ago at the end of the Second World War, and how communities across the UK understand freedom today. Each venue on the tour contributed to the wider programme, with 22 photographers from Open Eye Gallery's Socially Engaged Photography Network collaborating with people of all ages and backgrounds to explore identity, history and connection.

After launching at the Southbank Centre earlier this year, the exhibition continues to travel to arts centres and libraries nationwide throughout 2026. Explore the full tour schedule: https://ourfreedom.org.uk/exhibition/

Our Freedom: Then and Now is delivered by Future Arts Centres in partnership with LibrariesConnected and Open Eye Gallery, supported using public funding by the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport through Arts Council England.



(Image credit: Karina Lax Photography www.karinalax.com with Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield)

07/08/2026

Don't forget a trip to Bell Square - Art & Performance is also a chance to explore and the other squares close by sample the delights of Thakers or

03/08/2026

Have you ever walked through Bell Square and wondered why people were standing in a crowd, laughing together?

This Saturday is your chance to find out.

We're bringing one of the world's most inventive outdoor performances to Hounslow—and it's completely free.

Smashed by Gandini Juggling blends astonishing skill with visual theatre and laugh-out-loud comedy. You don't need to know anything about circus or contemporary performance to enjoy it. In fact, many people who think it's "not for them" end up becoming its biggest fans.

No tickets. No dress code. No experience required.

Just turn up, find a place to stand or sit, and let the show do the rest.

📍 Bell Square, Hounslow
📅 Saturday 8 August, 1pm & 3pm
🎟️ Free

31/07/2026

What does juggling mean to you?

Do you juggle? Send us your juggling videos - we think you'll be knocked out with how good Gandini Juggling are in Bell Square - Art & Performance Sat 8 Aug, 1pm & 3pm