Last month, MAYK took a Reading Week – a dedicated break from the usual grind, allowing our team to step back, explore new ideas, and recharge our creative energies.

Over the last few months we’ve been doing some big thinking and, we’ve decided not to deliver a Mayfest programme in 2026.

In this blogpost we review the results from our Pudding post-show evaluations at Mayfest 2024 and share how evaluation better helps us understand cultural experiences.

Take a look back at this year's Tales of Two Cities programme with poet, facilitator and curator Aish Humphreys.

A blogpost from MAYK’s Assistant Producer Intern Rosa Picard where she recounts her time working with us over Mayfest 2024.

In this blog post, we’re sharing team highlights, the Mayfest 2024 film, shot by Dan Canham and some photos from Paul Blakemore that were taken during the festival.

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Can you believe we’re more than half way through our programme already? It’s been an epic week here at MAYK HQ and we’re gearing up for what’s set to be a mega last few days of Mayfest.

As Bristol enters a period of significant regeneration, how can we collectively reimagine what the provision of public art looks like in the future? How can artists playfully disrupt and create thrilling new place-based work that is non-permanent and has deeper, more rich community engagement.

Mayfest opened in sensational style at the weekend with The Dan Daw Show, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel and asses.masses (which was the longest ever performance of the show by the way, running for more than 9+ hours on Sunday). A BIG thank you to everyone who came out to support and toast to our launch with us.