AUDI PRESENTS WILDERNESS 30TH JULY - 2ND AUGUST 2026: 21 DAYS TO GO
Audi Presents Wilderness Festival is now only 21 days away! With the countdown on, celebrate this year’s festival with our round up of Wilderness By Numbers. The festival returns to the unparalleled nature reserve of Cornbury Park on 30th July - 2nd August 2026 for its fifteenth edition. Tickets are available now at www.wildernessfestival.com
WILDERNESS BY NUMBERS:
15 years of Wilderness Festival
16 music & arts venues
318 acts across music, the arts and wellbeing, including Scissor Sisters, The Last Dinner Party, Carl Cox, Soulwax, Baxter Dury, Saint Etienne and SISTERS: curated by Annie Lennox
24000 of you, finding your wild
20800 plates served across the weekend
4714 bookable dining seats
4680 eggs cracked for your consumption
3600 wellbeing classes, workshops and sessions to book yourself into
3000 bottles of champagne enjoyed each year
1900 performers
1500 crew
1200 deer who call Cornbury Park their home
915 pitches for those staying in their campervan for the weekend
576 arts and craft workshop spaces
500+ Massage treatments
450 people at every long table banquet
400 acres of rolling parkland
270 chances to harness your zen upside down in Aerial Yoga
168 picnic benches
150 incredible feasting and dining team members
142 food and market traders
130km cycled with Bridges for Music Ride to Wilderness
55 wellbeing facilitators to help you take a deep breath
55 chefs front and back of house
32 hours of meditation, connection and focus in the Mindful Space
30 independent traders to discover in the Maker’s Market
18 chances to test your balance at paddleboard yoga
12 lakeside hot tubs
10 hours of dancing on the Valley dancefloor
10km wild runs to start your day
8 shipping containers of decor and supplies reused every year
7 campsites to match your camping style
6 Woodland Banquet sittings
6 Family Field venues for little ones to run wild
6 boats
6 ice cream vans
5 tonnes of festival food saved from going to landfill each year in partnership with Oxford Food Bank
4 lakes
3 entrances to the hidden world of the Riddle
1 Wilderness Festival
Wilderness 2026 will see one of the festival’s most glorious line-ups to date, including: Scissor Sisters, The Last Dinner Party, Carl Cox, Soulwax, Baxter Dury, Saint Etienne, Good Neighbours, Hot 8 Brass Band, Groove Armada and SISTERS: curated by Annie Lennox.
Book your tickets now: www.wildernessfestival.com/tickets
NEWLY ADDED:
The Atrium
Music, arts, performance and high jinks
Uchenna Dance: Our Mighty Groove
Little Bulb: Listen, Dance
Women In Jazz Presents Donna Leake
Police Cops
MASSAOKE
House of Sublime
From award-winning cabarets to contemporary drag: enter a world of the fabulous and the unexpected. Discover a world of intersectional and queer-centric artistry from a smorgasbord of international artists
Georgie Jones - And the Worlds Spins Away
The Divine presents “Baby Lame: Hit Me Baby One More Lame!“
The Sublime Society
The Musical Theatre Rave
Baby Lame
Fag Packet
The Divine presents “East End Girls“
Shibari Workshop with Charlie Bouquet
Jodie Mitchell - ‘John Travulva Finds His Father (But Only to get an Irish Passport) [WIP]
The Sisters of Shesus
Shooting from Below by Midgitte Bardot
The Generation Gameshow Cabaret
The Body Love Sketchclub Live Drawing Workshop
Seayoncé
The Cocoa Butter Club - SLICC N THICC
Lorna Rose Treen & Friends
Lorna Rose Tree - Work In Progress
’Manic Street Creature’ via Maimuna Memon
Trans Voices
Permission to Play: Kink 101 with Miss May
Fancy Shews!
The Mr Blackpool Roadshow...
The Dive
Dedicated space for those who love live music, showcasing the very best in up-and-coming artists
Silver Gore
Benchwarmer
TideTied
Jeanie and the White Boys
TTSSFU
Two Man Lift
Cowboy Hunters
Freidberg
Rizzy & The Gents
Media Puzzle
Ashnymph
Dear Tash
Little Grandad
Cruush
Ebbb
The North
Us
Silverwing Killer
Lucia & The Best Boys
Curiosity Shop
Gossip Queens
The Club House
The Club House is open night and day for celebrating wins, singing along and having a blast; everyone’s invited
Naughty 00s Opening Party
Bangers and Mash Late Night Kitchen
Jet Boot Jack
The Riddle
18+ venue
The Sheriff
Flash Mitra
The Forum
The home of big ideas; The Forum programme sprawls from the serious to the surreal, with talks, debates, panels and more
Estilo Quartet
Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0
The Slayters
Thought Club
Little Minds, Big News – Dr Martha Deiros Collado & Kirsti Adair
We Know You Can Pay a Million: Hacking and Ransomware – Anja Shortland
AI and Algorithm: Attention Seeker or Attention Stealer – Panel featuring Julia Bell
How To Go Viral: From Instagram to TikTok and Everything in Between
Troubled Waters: A New Breed of Climate Activism
Do Blue Plaques Talk Back? – Story Stock Sounds
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud – Sathnam Sanghera
Big Boys Don’t Cry: Are Men OK?
Bring on the Flamboyance – Jack Parlett
Music for Flamboyant Moments – Estilo String
Sequins to Swords: What Exactly is Cosplay? – FA3 Club
“Don’t Mention the War”: How to Agree to Disagree – Gabrielle Rifkind
WTF Is Going On With British Housing? – Phin Harper
La Patri
Reya
BrokenPen
Fern Brady
HIGH ENERGY UNPLEASANT: Psilocybin & Friends
The Fear Opportunity - Victoria Pendleton C.B.E
Sisterhood In The Music Business – Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne) in conversation with Delphine Seddon
Sofar Sounds: Latin takeover
Omar Ríos Melénde
The Jumpyard
Festival bands and DJs at the very forefront of the scene, fully designed to make you move
Dan’s People
Sam & The Womp
Daraa Tribes
Buffo’s Wake
Millie Watson and Roxanne Phillips
DJ Chairman
Pony Montana
The Maker’s Quarter
The hub for artisans, makers, costumiers and crafters
The Outdoorium Learning Lounge
The Books Tent
Readers, writers and lovers of literature; assemble
Dr Phlox
Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls – Fred Pearce
(A)I Love You: Love and Intimacy in the Technology Age – James Muldoon
Wants and Needs: On Romance and Ethical Non-Monogamy – Roxy Dunn
So You Think You Know Gertrude Stein? – Francesca Wade
Between the Lines: Pay Attention and Get Writing – Julia Bell
Frontierlands: Abandonment Is Not the End – Hazel Sheffield
Ten Poets vs. The World – Sidekick Books
Granta Fiction Takeover – with Rebecca Perry, Alex Hyde, and Ben Pester
The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial – Izabella Scott
The Next Fix: What’s Next for the Future of Drugs – Kojo Koram
“I’m Going First”: How Nintendo Redefined Fun – Keza MacDonald
From Monster Smut to Courtly Romance: The Global Rise of Romantasy
“Hello, This Is Switchboard”: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened – Tash Walker & Adam Zmith
The Family Field
Let your little tribe run wild
Samba Workshop with Big Beat Drumming
Arthur Juggler
Madame Zucchini
The Rested Collective
Junk Jodie
Transmission Roundhouse
Janeen Hyat - Discovering our Family Stories
Zoo Lab: Animal Encounter
Guerilla Archaeology
Rock School Bus
Little Strummers
Fun Science
Dancing Tales’ with Uncle Tacko! and puppetry workshop with Spike Bones & Uncle Tacko!
BSOU Rock School
One Jah - Reggae Nursery Rhymes
Tamsyn Murray
Theatre & Walkabout
Fantastical happenings and visual art
The Moonlit Owl
Puppet petting farm
Mother Nature Stilt Walkers
The Luminas
Reverse mermaids