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SUPERNORMAL Experimental Arts & Music Festival SUPERNORMAL is an experimental festival of arts and music, expanding upon new paradigms of what a festival can be.

Independent and uncompromising, it champions multi-faceted, exploratory art and music from the underground, margins and fringes to impart inspiring and engaging encounters beyond the everyday and the expected. Evolving from the countercultural lineage of Braziers Park, Supernormal came to life out of the auspices of the Braziers International Artist Workshop. Connecting with the ethos and ideologies of the Braziers community, and exploring possibilities of alternative living and learning, Supernormal retains these values, forming a network of artists, collaborators, partners and platforms to forge and nurture a community spirit all of its own. More than a festival, Supernormal has become a revolutionary and ever-evolving artistic realm where expression and experimentation combine, collaborate and collude without restraint, where inspiration is free to thrive and possibilities are infinite.

Good day to you all! Hope everyone’s been well this year – rest assured Supernormal has too, we’ve just been very quiet ...
18/09/2026

Good day to you all!

Hope everyone’s been well this year – rest assured Supernormal has too, we’ve just been very quiet and not very social (media). If you follow this account, you may know we’ve been taking a breather this year and generally restoring ourselves. And it’s worked!

In the tradition of mixing business with pleasure, which is to say mainly pleasure, we’ve been keeping inspired at all manner of other festivals and music events on these isles and beyond. If you’ve asked after Supernormal’s wellbeing or just said hello to any of us when we’ve been out and about – THANK YOU! It’s a welcome reminder for us of what a special thing we’ve got going on.

We are nearly ready to get back in the announcement saddle and hopefully make you lot happy… in the meantime, we want to take you back to Supernormal’s home of Braziers Park in a ‘news and pictures’ sense. Back at the height of summer, our wonderful build crew were on site doing essential repairs to the Vortex and building some beautiful new lavatories – that’s right folks, Braziers is proof a loo can be beautiful. So here some photos of that build work, because the build team properly deserve a light shone on the graft they did over the week.

In the meantime, and making a tactical move indoors, there are still plenty of rad DIY festivals happening across the UK during the remainder of 2026. Our Newcastle homies The Lubber Fiend have their own, New Ruins, happening literally right now as we hit publish on this post! If you can’t make that one, do please keep on supporting your local venues and other creators of DIY/independent/underground/freaky happening culture.

Further updates to come! Love, Team Supernormal

Time! What even is it? According to the so-called calendar, it’s just a couple of weeks since a big bunch of Team Supern...
25/02/2026

Time! What even is it? According to the so-called calendar, it’s just a couple of weeks since a big bunch of Team Supernormal were at our favourite place on earth – Braziers Park in Oxfordshire – for our annual winter visit. That means it’s a whole 12 months since our last one of these. And six months since the last edition of Supernormal. And two months since we announced, with a heavy heart as genuine as it is clichéd, that we would be taking a year out in 2026 to ensure that the festival, and its site, can return with great and fiery force.

The last year has absolutely flown by, so hopefully the next one-and-a-half will do too, because we can’t wait to be with you in the Braziers field again – and nothing boosts the collective Supernormal serotonin more than taking a stroll in that field, even in our winter thermals.

Once summer kicks in, the plan is for the team to get back there and embark on a programme of site-wide improvement. This will relate to accessibility and sustainability – we are working with people who can advise us from positions of lived experience/expertise – as well as general maintenance of the stages and facilities. In other words, the background labour that ensures there can be a Supernormal 2027, 2028, 2525 etc.

We also have new team members and a bag of ideas for how the next Supernormal can be both the same fringe-culture weekender you know and love, and at the same time different and challenging. Can those things coexist? We think they can.

Team Supernormal x

Hello to all reading and we at Supernormal hope the season is treating you kindly. We come to you however with an announ...
12/12/2025

Hello to all reading and we at Supernormal hope the season is treating you kindly. We come to you however with an announcement we know will disappoint, but which is being done in the best interests of the festival: we’re taking a break for 2026, with the aim of returning 100% invigorated in 2027.

The reasons for this are multifarious, mundane in some ways, not grave or dramatic but hopefully understandable. The long and the short of it is that Supernormal is a DIY festival assembled by a small team in and around the other bits of their lives, and isn’t done by anyone as their actual job or bolstered by art funding. So it’s boringly necessary for us to have to be regularly thinking about the (near) future and weighing up whether we can balance all the plates that need to be balanced, without burning ourselves out to the point where Supernormal – as in the whole organisation – is in jeopardy. Sometimes, not enough of us can and that’s the gist of our 2026 situation.

This does however mean that we have extra opportunity to address various things which are very ‘behind the scenes’-y but highly important nonetheless. These include upkeep of Braziers Park, aka the Supernormal festival site; improved accessibility and sustainability, both onsite at Braziers and in a more general sense; and developing residency and programming opportunities for the next festival and beyond.

What we also want to reiterate, before signing off for now, is that Supernormal is in a sincerely good place at the time of writing, and we all love doing this. Which, as we say, is why we’re anxious for it not to develop in a way that sours the overall deal. We were thinking about the next edition of the festival as soon as the last one finished, and we’ll still be doing that, just with a bit more time to work on the details. We’ll be living it up again before you know it!

Team Supernormal x

All photos by Richard and Karen Edkins:
1) Sign and natural foraged inks by Abi Hubbard
2) 1000 Pounds To Survive Us
3) Big Farmer
4) Loré Lixenberg: Panic Room
5) Nadeem Din-Gabisi
6) The Village Green
7) All Power Emanates From The Land
8) Hannah Catherine Jones
9) Jamal Sterrett
10) Distraxi

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Braziers Park School Of Integrative Social Research
Ipsden
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