Water Festival Family Fun Day (Well Dressing)

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Event Description

The 2025 Water Festival Family Fun Day and Well Dressing Prize Giving event will take place on Bank Holiday Monday (May Day) with a combination of fun family activities, live music, street entertainers and much more!

There will be Maypole dancing from 10am – 12pm and live music from 12.30pm onwards. The well dressing prize giving will take place at 2pm.

The day includes ‘The Spirit of Malvern’ Painting Competition which sees artists paint outdoors for the day and exhibit their paintings from 3.30pm – 5pm at Malvern Theatres.

Malvern Hills District Council only recommends drinking Malvern Water from Malvhina Fountain in Great Malvern.

Programme

10am – 4pm: BBC inflatable fun and children’s activities
10am – 3pm: Face painting
10.30am – 12pm: Morris and May Pole dancing with So Xsighted Morris
11am – 1pm: Xplorer Trail with Freedom Leisure
11am – 3pm (various times): ‘Treemendous’ street entertainers
12pm and 1.30pm: ‘Three Weeks in Wet Sheets’ theatre production – Coach House Theatre
12pm – 2pm and 3pm – 5pm: Circus skills workshop
2pm: Well dressing prize-giving ceremony
3pm: Stagecoach dance act
3.30pm – 5pm: ‘The Spirit of Malvern’ prize giving and exhibition
Music throughout the day provided by Journeyman

Monday 5 May 2025

All Day

Priory Park

Location

Priory Park

Great Malvern

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