Get ready for Happy Streets Festival 2026!
Hundreds of Battersea residents return to Thessaly Road each year for Happy Streets – a free, family arts festival on Saturday and Sunday packed with live performance, street food, and creative activities for all ages!
Back for 2026, the festival once again transforms Nine Elms into a traffic-free celebration space across Thessaly Road, St George’s Primary School, R.O.S.E Community Clubroom and Oasis Green Space, bringing together local partners, artists and community groups for a weekend of creativity and connection.
Saturday 4 July (Thessaly Road, St George’s Primary School & R.O.S.E Community Clubroom)
Saturday brings a full day of high-energy performances on the solar powered Main Stage located at St George’s playground. Expect live music from World Heart Beat’s Latino Corazon Band (12:00 to 12:45pm) alongside dance and movement tasters from MACS Dance, BollyCo, SASalsa and Reflect Martial Arts. Families can also enjoy interactive favourites like Baby Broadway sing along and MovementWorks’ family disco, with a vibrant steel pan finale from the Caribbe band.At St George’s Primary School, families can enjoy nature play with Ascend and Bloom in the Happiness Garden, designed especially for children aged 0–8. The Pen will host circus skills workshops from High Voltage Events, alongside football sessions with FAST London Youth Sports. For those looking for a quieter moment, The Zen Den by Ruckus Theatre offers mindful crafts and quieter activities inside the school.
Thessaly Road adds street food, FREE henna and face painting, smoothie bikes, and walkabout performances in striking costumes that spill across the neighbourhood. Don’t miss the parade on the road at 2:30pm, led by World Heart Beat’s New Orleans-inspired band.
Across the road at R.O.S.E Community Clubroom, families can get stuck into a range of creative arts and crafts activities: from ‘Bags of Love’, a tote bag design workshop with Scene in London, to the ‘Happy Hands Bracelet Bar’and ‘Happy Caps’ – where you can customise your own baseball cap with bold graffiti-style designs..
World Heart Beat’s New Orleans Parade
World Heart Beat’s Second Line Band is rooted in the rich traditions of New Orleans the celebration of life through music and community. Our young musicians celebrate the enduring power of this music that lies at the root of jazz for an atmosphere that brings people together in boundless joy.
Born from community, resilience and expression, the second line is music that invites everyone to take part and join in by playing, dancing or just simply sharing the moment. It reminds us that music at its best brings people together and naturally brings out all that is great about being human and passing it on from one generation to the next!
Sunday 5th July | 12pm–5pm
Oasis Green Space & Yvonne Carr Centre, SW8 4HT
Sunday slows the pace slightly but keeps the energy flowing with a strong community focus in the OASIS green space. Highlights include uplift performances from Baby Gospel, beatbox performances from Beatbox Academy, Bollywood dance workshops with Mohit Mathur and street dance party moments with Speaker Box Street Party.
Throughout the day, visitors can join relaxed creative activities including mindful crafts with Arty Pants, bubble workshops and ‘Nature Guardians’ making sessions with 575 Wandsworth Road – plus the ever popular face painting and henna. There’s also a brand new hands-on ‘Doll making workshop’ where participants can learn to design, assemble and decorate their own dolls using fabrics.Caribbean street food, smoothie bikes and Happy Homes food & games return, keeping the Oasis Green Space a lively and welcoming hub for families.Don’t miss the Disco Litter Queens, bringing disco moves and a groovy soundtrack to make tidying up the neighbourhood fun and cool.
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