What's On
Homestead Park Festival 2025 Programme
saturday
7 activities
Workshops
Hands-on Workshops
Get stuck into a range of hands-on workshops.
Learn how to make jam, screenprint your old t-shirt, whittle a spoon, compost your food waste, repair your clothes, service your bike, create a terrarium, and more!
Workshops
Print Poetry with Little Hirundine Micro Press
Come and have a go at printing a letterpress poem! Be part of
a poetry experiment and watch our collaborative poem unfold on a historic Adana press.
Workshops
Preserve Making Workshop
Come and see how to preserve seasonal homegrown fruit and veg
Workshops
Everything you ever wanted to know about COMPOST!
Top rotter 'Compost John' brings his recycling know how to help you start your composting endeavours. Bring a container to take away some beautiful rich compost you can riddle yourself!
Workshops
Print Room Party: Make Your Own Merch!
Inky fingers, not fast fashion! Join Mek Summat in the Print Room and make your own festival merch.
Workshops
Mindful Rock Balancing
A family friendly workshop which combines the fun, interactive practice of rock stacking, along with the challenge and art of mindfulness!
Workshops
Future York: Young People's Hopes and Dreams
How can we make York a better place to live for young people? Join us where we will be using arts-based methods (collage, zine making) to design a Future York, and to envision what our community can become.
sunday
8 activities
Workshops
Hands-on Workshops
Get stuck into a range of hands-on workshops.
Learn how to make jam, screenprint your old t-shirt, whittle a spoon, compost your food waste, repair your clothes, service your bike, create a terrarium, and more!
Workshops
Print Poetry with Little Hirundine Micro Press
Come and have a go at printing a letterpress poem! Be part of
a poetry experiment and watch our collaborative poem unfold on a historic Adana press.
Workshops
Preserve Making Workshop
Come and see how to preserve seasonal homegrown fruit and veg
Workshops
Mossarium Workshop
Learn about the magic of Terrariums with moss and then create one of your own!
Workshops
Everything you ever wanted to know about COMPOST!
Top rotter 'Compost John' brings his recycling know how to help you start your composting endeavours. Bring a container to take away some beautiful rich compost you can riddle yourself!
Workshops
Print Room Party: Make Your Own Merch!
Inky fingers, not fast fashion! Join Mek Summat in the Print Room and make your own festival merch.
Workshops
Living Lab: Future Community
Help staff and students from the York St John Living Lab to create the perfect, climate-resilient, community space. Explore our own experiments in positive futures and bring your craft, words and ears to create a bit of the future.
Workshops
Cardboard City
Join us to create a world out of cardboard! Imagine your perfect city, then build it! Fancy your own apartment building? A zoo?! Drop by and contribute to our dream city.
Areas of the Park
Here are the spaces and places you can explore at the Homestead Park Festival 2025.
Here is Action
Visit the glasshouses to get involved in making and creating and connecting to nature.
Here is Conversation
Experience diverse storytelling among the birch trees in the Upper Meadow.
Here Is Hope
From inspirational talks to magical theatre, we gather in the Main Lawn for collective hopeful experiences.
Here is Music
Nestled in our beautiful wildflower area, we bring the Lower Meadow to life with beautiful music throughout the weekend.
Here is Play
Places to play amongst the trees in the Lower Meadow.
Here is the Future
Travel through time and step into a hopeful future through storytelling and imagination.