Midsummer Festival takes place on Sunday 23 June 10am to 10.30pm. It's a fun-packed free, family-friendly festival where we invite you to celebrate the summer solstice. The Festival programme includes music, maypoles, puppets, dance, creative making workshops, street-theatre, face-painting and more. A fantastic street-food offer will be available throughout the event. 

Midsummer Festival takes place on Midsummer Boulevard (see map below), which is famously aligned with the sun at summer solstice. The Festival site is opposite MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Theatre. what3words for the Festival location is dolphin.conspire.data 

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Midsummer Festival is a family-friendly, free event and will have both a security and stewarding presence for the duration. 

The Festival site will have toilet facilities including accessible toilets and baby-change area. Seating, shade and areas to relax form part of the Festival’s offer. A fantastic array of street-food including two bars will be on-site for the duration. 

The Festival will take place on Midsummer Boulevard itself and we will be closing the road between 6am and midnight on Sunday 23 June. The map shows the location of the road closure. During this period, parking bays will also be suspended in this area. However, there will be plenty of parking adjacent to the Festival site and the multi-storey car park will remain open throughout. 

Due to the road closures in place, all bus stops(B3-E3 and B4 – E4) in the Theatre District will be closed for the day. All buses will leave from bus stops located at The Point. These will be clearly signposted in advance and on the day. 

We are hoping for a very sunny day! However, if the rain pays us a visit we have made plans for covered areas so you can shelter from the rain. The programme will proceed as planned though maybe subject to timing changes. 

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We have a brilliant selection of street-food and drink curated by Sophie.etc. including The Rub BBQ, Bokkie, Fold Me Close Pizza, Lime Face, Willen Ice Cream, Chouxly Scrumptious, Milk and Beans, JW Events Cart. Drinks will be served by Papi’s Cocktails and From the Hatch bar. 

There are no steps on the Festival site and it is easily accessible from nearby parking and public transport connection points. The route to the Light Pyramid follows a gently inclined path in Campbell Park.

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