Black Shuck
Festival

Shuck Shop @ Crocks

The festival's official pop-up shop, inside Crocks of Bungay on Earsham Street. Come and pick up official Black Shuck Festival merchandise.

Art Exhibition – East Anglian Folk Tales

Artists are inspired by our East Anglian Folktales theme as evidenced in this stunning exhibition in the newly opened Broad Street Gallery.

Beastly Boxes returns to the hunt

Follow in Shuck's footsteps as you explore historic Bungay. Unravel puzzles, decode hidden clues, and piece together a mystery hidden among the town's streets, landmarks, and long memory.

Children's Art Exhibition

Art and poetry from the festival's outreach workshops on our folklore themes, on show in the Fisher Theatre Gallery all weekend.

We Are Witch quilt

The quilt is the current piece of work from We Are Witch, a collaborative project that honours the women killed under the Witchcraft Act in East Anglia.

Games Cellar

Come and try exciting new video games steeped in legend, mythology and history.

Family Craft Workshop

A free flag-making workshop for children of all ages, to make flags ready for the festival parade.

These Ancient Cures: Rebecca Tamás in conversation with Freya Bromley

In these turbulent and fragmented times, a return to nature, and an immersion in ancient rituals and traditions can be a potent and powerful aid to solace and healing.

The Folk Union presents: Folkmoot - East Anglia as a Folk Landscape

Folkmoot: East Anglia as a folk landscape — a panel led by Mike Hankin exploring how the region has been imagined, mythologised and used.

Fuzzy Lights + The Feathered Thorns

Acclaimed Cambridge heavy doom-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights weave experimental drone textures around crystalline folk sensibilities to create music as atmospheric and ancient-feeling as the East Anglian landscape that…

Scarred for Life

From terrifying films like The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General to the gentle eeriness of The Owl Service and Worzel Gummidge, "Folk Horror" has become a thrilling genre in its own right.

Festival Parade

The best place to see this spectacular parade is on Earsham Street which starts the afternoon's activities in the Castle Bailey and Castle Hills.

Mermarella puppet show presented by Indigo Moon

Kidnapped from the fresh blue river water, far away to the salty green sea, will Mermarella ever be accepted and find love again in this foreign kingdom?

Castle Bailey Music Stage

A free afternoon of live folk and roots on the Castle Bailey stage — Embers Folk Choir, Ewan D. Rodgers, Muco, The Fool's Moon and the Tom Moore Quartet — with street food, bar and drinks.

Castle Hills Pagoda Storytelling

Storytelling in the pagoda with James Mayhew, Saraswati Puppets and Folk-a-Dilly, plus have-a-go activities across the afternoon.

Selene

A radical explosion of an Ancient Greek myth about the moon from the internationally award-winning company Wright and Grainger.

The Breedling + Fenland Drone Workshop

The Breedling is the cinematic industrial doom project of Norfolk-based musician, artist and author Chris Spalton.

A Straunge & Terrible Wunder

1612 Underture - Maxine Peake and the Eccentronic Research Council: Created by Sheffield duo Eccentronic Research Council with Maxine Peake, 1612 Underture retells the story of the Pendle witches through live music,…

Black Dog Disco

Boogie your blues away and throw some wild shapes in the atmospheric Three Tuns cellar!

Fuzzypeg & the Big Black Dog of Bungay

When the toys in the FuzzypegFolk shop wake up, they like to have adventures! In this charming show, Little Red Riding Hood sets off to see Grandma.

Shuck Wellbeing

Unwind and relax in the peaceful setting of the ancient Castle Hills — pilates, yoga, breath work, chair therapy and Shaolin qigong.

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: Is Black Shuck a Werewolf?

For centuries, East Anglia's most famous supernatural resident has been described as a black dog.

William Fergusson Piano Recital

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: Mell Dolls and Maidens with Janine Connor

Before combines rolled across the fields and harvest became a matter of machinery, it was surrounded by ritual, superstition and celebration.

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: Treasures of the Occult: History's Weird Money With Dominic Chorney

Most of us think of coins as mundane objects. We carry them in our pockets, lose them down the back of the sofa and occasionally discover them in the washing machine. History, however, had far stranger ideas.

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: Dark Folklore with Mark and Tracey Norman

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car...?

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: The X-Trails, a Forensic History of the Supernatural With Naomi Ryan

What happens when the supernatural ends up in court? The law is supposed to deal in facts, evidence and reason.

The Norwich Radio Players: The Black Shuck Investigations!

An evening of all-live radio drama.

The Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads with Amy Jeffs, Gwen Burns and Natalie Brice

Featuring fairy tales, Greek myths and bible stories, The Old Songs threads a tapestry of Britain's landscape, history and cultures.