Each year, the festival has grown more ambitious, more creative and more joyful.
On Saturday 30th May, between 10am-1pm, the medieval market on the square around the Ingram Memorial will be alive with:
- A working blacksmith’s forge, complete with glowing coals
- Woodcarvers, spinners and mosaic artists demonstrating traditional skills
- A jester entertaining families
- Heritage‑inspired food tastings
- Free creative activities including sheep collage-making with Aga Kowalska
- Dance and live music infusing the market with energy
The day will culminate in a stunning parade at 12:40pm featuring:
- The Derwent Valley Drummers wearing Lincolnshire Longwool Sheep headdresses created by the Boston community in sessions with Ruth Pigott in 2025
- The Lincoln Waites, filling the streets with medieval rhythms
- Dancers from the Josie Clarke Dance Academy, performing routines choreographed by Beth Williams in silk painted skirts created by Donna Fox
- Ten vibrant silk-painted flags, designed with the public in silk batik-style painting workshops by artist Donna Fox in 2025
- Ships costumes made by Rhubarb Theatre with, and worn by, Boston High School students
- Lincolnshire Longwool sheep and lamb puppets created by Robbie Bellekom, puppeteered by Robbie and performer Hannah Peacock
- Stiltwalker Laura Hudson, wearing a bespoke skullcap-inspired costume created by Ruth Pigott with help from Centrepoint Outreach participants, informed by a design created in this year’s collage workshops
The result was a truly Boston celebration – proud of its past, shaped by its communities, and overflowing with creativity.
And at 12:40pm, the streets will burst into life with the Hanse Parade – a riot of colour, movement and sound winding through the town centre and ending at the Stump.
Transported is proud to be working with local residents in the months leading up to the festival to create new banners, costumes and parade pieces through hands‑on workshops with professional artists.
We’re thrilled to have on a offer a series of free workshops for the community to help create the artwork that will appear in the festival and parade.
check our events page for more info on the related workshops
