Festivity Artist Showcase – Melbourne Festival

As we exit summer, there’s another thing to look forward to before the season well and truly ends!

Arts Derbyshire’s very own festival – Festivity, will be hosting its final outdoor event of the year at Melbourne Festival, with workshops, music and so much more – you won’t want to miss out!

Arts workshops will be delivered over the weekend by a local arts organisation, Creative Melbourne, and another local arts organisation Adverse Camber will lead storytelling sessions throughout the two days. Derby Poetry Festival will also be curating a line up of spoken word artists.

There will be a different performing artist lineup for each tour venue. The musicians for the Melbourne Festival event are Poke o’Swedgers who will be performing on the 20^th of September and Steve Bohham who will be performing on the 21^st of September.

20th – 21st September 2025