A Bloomin’ Great Bank Holiday At Battersea Power Station

Bloody Marys with a twist, gardens in teacups and artist walks – Battersea Power Station will be celebrating the flourishing Circus West Village community this bank holiday.

Battersea Power Station’s Circus West Village will be hosting a bumper filled bank holiday weekend with activities and pop ups for all of the family.

Bank Holiday weekend activities range from a gin pop up, historical walks to floral face painting at Circus West Village:

• Dodd’s Gin x Ben’s Canteen pop-up (Saturday 27th - Monday 29th May, 1PM-6PM)
This bank holiday weekend Dodd’s Gin have teamed up with Battersea establishment and future Circus West Village eatery Ben’s Canteen, serving up delicious refreshments in their pop-up riverside garden. Enjoy a crisp gin and tonic made with the distillery’s award-winning gin or a ‘Red Snapper’ (that’s a Bloody Mary with gin instead of vodka) with Ben’s Canteen’s Bloody Mary spice mix.

• Sweet & Savoury Food Trucks (Saturday 27th - Monday 29th May, 12PM-4PM)
Start your weekend with a bap! On Saturday Barnyard Birds will be serving their locally sourced buttermilk fried free-range chicken and delicious duck confit between butter toasted brioche buns. Local favourite The Butcher & Grill will be rolling up on the Sunday and Monday and serving handmade gourmet burgers, sausages and steak sandwiches. If you have a sweet tooth, treat yourself to some dessert served from a lovingly restored vintage ice cream van.

• Botanic Garden in a Teacup (Saturday 27th May, 3PM-6PM) FREE
Create your own mini botanical garden in this drop-in workshop by Dodd’s Gin. The workshop will be followed by a talk on botanics and gin tasting in the newly opened Village Hall.

• Floral Face-painting (Sunday 28th and Monday 29th May, 11AM-3PM) FREE
Open to little ones and the young at heart, a face painter will be creating floral themed works of art all weekend.

Artist Luke Walker will be hosting a series of historical walks as part of Chelsea Fringe. Walker’s art derives from exploring different environments and gathering specific data such as pace, steps and altitude and translating it into a painting. The walks will be Battersea specific and will run on two weekends.

• Artist Walks - Glimpses of Battersea (Sunday 21st and Sunday 28th May, 2-3.30PM) FREE
Join artist Luke Walker for a tour of the area around Battersea Power Station and the best views of the building and its new public realm. The tours will run from 2-3.30PM. Email [email protected] to register for your place and state your preferred time slot in the subject line.

• Artist Walks – Walking in Whistler’s Footsteps (Saturday 20th and Saturday 27th May, 11AM-12.30PM) FREE
Join artist Luke Walker as he traces the history of the artist James Whistler in the context of Battersea’s landscapes, green spaces and the Thames. The tours will run from 11AM-12.30PM. Email [email protected] to register for your place and state your preferred time slot in the subject line.


Folk Dance Remixed will also be at Circus West Village throughout the weekend running a series of free workshops and performances. This performance company brings a fresh, quirky, colourful and magical collision of traditional and Hip Hop dance and music to a live soundtrack of fiddle and beat boxing - this is folk and street dance like you’ve never seen it before!

• Street Dance the Maypole - workshops:
Take part in creating wraps ‘n ripples mixed with waves ‘n breaks around a contemporary designed, bespoke ribboned, 12-foot freestanding maypole. A chance for the whole family to learn a funky routine to live music, mixing it with classic maypole moves, such as the Chrysanthemum Wrap and the Twister.

• Ceilidh Jam – performance:
Getting the crowd up and DANCING! Musicians will from