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Business News Wales
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business News Wales
Street Food Circus Returns to St Donat's Castle with Fantastic Fȇte
Street Food Circus Returns to St Donat's Castle with Fantastic Fȇte Street Food Circus is set to return to St Donat's Castle for Fantastic Fȇte, its largest event of the summer across the weekend of Saturday 2 August and Sunday 3 August. The event brings together street food, circus performance, family entertainment, a lido by the sea and after dark DJ sets into a 'remixed, 21st century village fȇte'. This year, the entertainment features the Artful Dodgems vintage roller rink, bringing roller skate pros and DJs to the roller disco. They are currently touring the UK's biggest music festivals including Big Feastival and Camp Bestival and arriving in Wales for one weekend at Fantastic Fȇte. Performances on the bill include Street Food Circus favourite, Chris Bullzini on the high wire, the Pembrokeshire Fire Spinners and a Mexican Wrestling Show. Entertainment features The Incredibly Clever Canine Circus, The Big Bubble Disco, and free workshops from Splatch Aeria, Let's Make Art and SFC Circus School. There will also be Axe Throwing and Kiss My Putt Crazy Golf. Next to the Castle, overlooking the beach, the lido pool will be open for people to swim or to relax in the sauna. As night falls, the Fantastic Fȇte switches into dancefloor mode, with an 'after dark' party headlined by DJ Yoda's 80s Mixtape Party Starter, bringing a mix of 80s pop, hip-hop, and synthwave. To go along with the entertainment, Street Food Circus has curated three zones for people to explore. 'Coco Loco Mexico' presents Mexican cuisine from El Cabron, Chantico, Gourmet Warriors, Church Of Churros, and Paletas. A 'Street Food Circus All-stars' zone includes Bone Cartel (recent People's Choice winners at the Welsh Street Food Awards), Smokin Griddle, Bare Bones Pizza, The Melted Cheese Co, Two Lads Kitchen, Fire & Flank, and Drizzle. And 'Feast From The East' offers Taste Of Punjab, Keralan Karavan, and Ceylon And Beyond. Drinks will be available from Tiny Rebel Brewery, Lola's Cocktail Bar, Fresh Lemonades, and Buzz Coffee. Matt the Hat, founder of Street Food Circus, said: 'We're thrilled to be back for a second year at St Donat's – it's a unique site, between the castle and the sea. Fantastic Fȇte is our biggest event of the summer – and represents everything we do, remixing and reinventing the classic village fȇte with our travelling circus of family entertainment, the best street food around and, after dark, one of our favourite DJs bringing the party. He added: 'It's a chance to come and spend a magical day with us and explore the spectacular Glamorgan Heritage Coast. There's lots of great places to stay nearby so it would also be easy to make a whole weekend of it.' First-release tickets are priced at £10 (plus booking fee) for adults, with free entry for children, and are available at Dogs are permitted. Some activities, including the lido pool and sauna, roller disco, and crazy golf, are subject to an additional charge on the day.
BBC News
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Somerset tightrope artist says: 'Don't be scared of life'
A professional tightrope walker is passing on his skill to people who struggle with anxiety and want to improve their Bullzini from Shepton Mallet has toured the world and performed his high-wire shows for Cirque du Soleil and several Tim Burton settling in Somerset, he decided to teach tightrope walking workshops to help people overcome any difficulties in life they might face."The wire is a real metaphor, everyone is walking a tightrope and has a high wire to cross in some way, whether it's their family, their career, their confidence, " he explained. Mr Bullzini said he found his love for tightrope walking when he was a teenager."When I watched somebody else walk on the wire there was something almost mystical, it looked like it defied gravity," Mr Bullzini said."I thought she was floating. I wanted to create that sense of wonder that I experienced, I wanted to create that in the audience that watched me."When he was 18, he decided to leave the UK and travel around the world, learning the craft of tightrope eventually decided to settle in Evercreech, near Shepton Mallet. He still performs alongside teaching people his skill."If you can do that [tightrope walking] in the physical world, you can apply those same techniques to the rest of your life."Mr Bullzini said the "most exciting" thing about teaching people is to see the "look of success on their faces and hear about how it's transformed them"."If people hear these words and they are questioning whether or not to go for their weird artistic career or get a sensible job in an office, they would at least consider putting some energy into the eccentric career."Mr Bullzini offers the workshops free of charge at his circus yard outside Shepton Mallet. He said his next run of courses will be announced soon.
