📅 Saturday 28 June 2025
⏰ 3:00pm – 10:00pm
📍 The Parade event space, by the pond
Watford Town Centre will host a brand-new, FREE summer event called Watford Fringe Festival Presents: Cultural Party on Saturday 28 June 2025.
Music
Dance
Entertainment
Culture
Cuisine
Community
An extravaganza celebrating Watford community, culture, and a taste of the Watford Fringe Festival
You can expect wonderful live music, spectacular dance performances and an array of vibrant decorations and colours. We want to bring a fun, friendly, diverse event to our town to mark the beginning of the Watford Fringe Festival. There will be a grand stage hosting a variety of live entertainment throughout the day, creating a buzzing atmosphere and showcasing the best of Watford’s community and culture.
The Cultural Party is FREE, and you do not need to register to attend; simply visit The Parade event space and you’ll be able to enjoy the summer fun! There will also be events in Watford Market, some street acts and the Watford Fringe Festival box office.
The Cultural Party has been jointly organised by the Pump House Theatre and Arts Trust, Watford Town Centre BID, and Watford Borough Council and supported by Warner Bros. Studios.
Full line-up:
3pm – Golden Slumbers
3.20pm – Alex Williams ‘Tiger Sings Jazz’
3.30pm – Pump House CYT perform extract from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
3.50pm – Elise Fabrise ‘A Girl You Should Know’ cabaret performance
4.10pm – Watford Indian association present Indian Dance
4.30pm – Dan Tien Dance
4.50pm – Baby Cabaret Puppeteers
5.10pm – Polish School of Dance
5.30pm – Watford Chinese Association present Chinese Lion Dance
5.50pm – Watford Palace Theatre Youth performance
6.10pm – Maya and Friends musical cabaret
6.30pm – Comedian Narin ‘Inner Childish’
7pm – West End musicals performance ‘I Dreamed A Dream’
7.30pm – Ukrainian Sunflower Club
8pm – Hertfordshire Opera
8.30pm – Comedy Singularity
9pm – TBC
9.30pm – The Samba Group