News Alert!!
This years XP Trust Arts Festival will take place across our communities in 2025 and 2026. With a mix of music, arts, performance and cultural events spreading across different areas of Doncaster and Gateshead engaging our young people and the wider community in a variety of experiences!
We first opened in September of 2014 in Doncaster and began to offer a creative and purposeful curriculum based on learning expeditions that connect subjects together so that learning is deepened and made relevant. Ten years on we have established a successful Trust that has shared this model with two more secondary schools, XP East in Doncaster and XP Gateshead, as well as five primary schools in the Doncaster area including: Carcroft Primary, Green Top Primary, Norton Infants, Norton Juniors and Plover Primary.
Our students create beautiful work that connects to the community and the world through the creation of high quality products that actively serve to make the world a better place.
To kick off our celebrations, and building on the success of last year, we are hosting our second community wide ‘Music and Arts Festival’ at XP East on the 11 July. This is an annual event to bring together creatives from across the XP community, the wider community and the world to show why the Arts are so important to making our world more just, more beautiful and more humane and why they are at the heart of our curriculum.
We look forward to seeing you at the start of our festivities and hope you will join us as we continue to celebrate and share our stories throughout the rest of 2025 and 2026!!!
Artists Confirmed for the Arts Festival and Related Events 2025
Orchestra Mambo International – https://atarecords.co.uk/orchestra-mambo-international
New York Brass or Another street band – https://www.newyorkbrassband.co.uk
Helen Reid – https://helenreidpiano.com
Zawedde https://zawedde.bandcamp.com/track/drive-all-night
DYJA https://dyja.co.uk/
Sine FM https://www.sinefm.com/
Xolani Mbatha https://www.jacey-bedford.com/zulu.htm
Ian West http://www.ianwest.co.uk/
Maja Bugge https://majabugge.com/
Pheonix Dance Theatre https://www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk/
The films and images below give a flavour a last year’s successful festival and related events.
Highlights of our XP Live Festival 2024.
