Summer in the Scene Dock - Week 3

Rant Club Workshop

Imagine a playful theatrical world where your anger is celebrated. A world where play and ritual encourages passion, debate and a much needed space to listen. A place where anger can be vocalised, heard & met with ‘hell yeah’s’, ‘cheers to that’ or ‘I don’t agree but I accept you all the same’. This is Rant Club.

Trifle Gathering’s Rant Club workshop offers participants a chance to let off steam through connectivity, laughter and camaraderie. Come sign up to Rant Club and explore the one thing that can give us a sense of relief and hope: a good daily dose of ranting!

Time: 3pm – 4pm

Ticketed – Free

Scary Little Girls presents

Queenagers

All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand-up, music and monologues that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring. Laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you!

Add music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women and you have the QUEENAGERS cabaret!

With glamorous assistance from women of Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Acting Up Group, 2025.

Time: 8pm – 9pm

Ticketed – £7.50 Full Price (£5.50 Concessions)

DJ Supa

DJ Supa is a master of his craft with 20 years of DJing experience Supa has really perfected his craft. Playing in most of the clubs across the South West and has supported some of the UK’s big names.

Join us for an electrifying evening of music and good vibes!

Time: 9pm – 10.30pm

Open Access

Far Flung presents

Make and Move

Come and meet new friends whilst making colourful props to move with on Far Flung’s Summer Parade through the city centre on Saturday 23rd August.

Join us for a sociable gathering, with making and chatting.

Photo credit: Dom Moore

Time: 3pm – 4pm

Ticketed – Free

Otto and The Mutapa Calling

Otto and The Mutapa Calling is a colourful celebration of southern African music and culture.

The London-based marimba band plays energetic, joyful music from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, covering traditional folk songs, popular southern African covers, and original songs. The band’s set-up includes soprano, tenor and baritone marimbas, with drumming and singing and a splash of both traditional and contemporary dances.

The marimba band’s sound is full of energy and pulsating rhythms – and the band’s music shares the rich cultures, histories and stories of the people of southern Africa. Formed in 2017, the marimba band is led by Otto Gumaelius who started playing African music on the marimba in the late 1990s in Botswana. The band is currently comprised of musicians from Botswana, Zimbabwe, and the UK, and is the only active professional southern African marimba band of its kind in the UK.

Time: 8pm – 9pm

Ticketed – £7.50 Full Price (£5.50 Concessions)

DJ Anya

At 27, DJ Anya May brings 9 years of multigenre/open-format experience to the decks, blending everything from house and hip-hop to garage, DnB and R&B with effortless flair.

A resident DJ at HQ and a familiar face across Plymouth’s top venues, her rising presence in the South West scene, Anya May champions girl power on stage—creating safe, electric spaces where everyone can vibe. Expect bold beats, big energy, and a set that speaks to the soul.

Join us for an electrifying evening of music and good vibes.

Time: 9pm – 10.30pm

Open Access

Far Flung’s Summer Parade

Come and enjoy being together to move through the city centre in Far Flung’s Summer Parade with handmade colourful props! A sociable gathering of moving and dancing.

Time: 2pm – 4pm

Ticketed – £7.50 Full Price (£5.50 Concessions)

Red Herring Silent Disco

Come Boogie! Get your headset on, learn, and follow our steps or find your own rhythm.

The Funky Chicken, the Hitchhiker – all the classic moves are there and we link them together into some very cool classic disco routines – to the delight of those taking part and all the others watching – the Silent Disco dancers become the spectacle themselves.

It’s a simple joyous engaging winner of a format. And remember – only those with the headsets on can hear the instructions – who knows what mischief a gaggle of disco dancers can get up to or where they might go as the audiences watches them… Highly experienced outdoor performers, Red Herring create playful work that blurs the boundaries between performer and audience.

In town or in landscape, we ask you to experience familiar things in unfamiliar ways – including yourselves.

Time: 8pm – 9pm

Ticketed – £7.50 Full Price (£5.50 Concessions)

Jelly Jazz

Pete Isaac is best known as the DJ promoter behind the seminal South West club-night Jelly Jazz since January 1993. In its early days during the height of the southwest’s rave culture, Jelly Jazz started out to provide a weekly diet of soul, funk, latin, hip hop and break-beat all with a jazz twist to them. The blend worked and the unpretentious, ‘sweat dripping off the walls’, ‘dance till you drop’ attitude and atmosphere driven relentlessly by the musical passion of resident DJ’s Pete Isaac and Griff soon became a major force in South West club-culture.

Fairly soon, Jelly Jazz developed an international reputation and was attracting the likes of Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay, Mr. Scruff, Quantic, Patrick Forge, Chris Goss, Andy Smith, Russ Dewbury, Rainer Truby, Jazzanova, and DJ Format as guest DJs.

Join us for an electrifying evening of music and good vibes.

Time: 9pm – 10.30pm

Open Access