No Limits

Event Details

We’re super excited to announce that the amazing ‘No Limits’ Festival is back again for 2024! 

This year’s event features an amazing line-up of authors and creative workshops planned. 

As well as celebrating all things books, there will be fantastic street theatre, live music, fun activities and a wide range of craft stalls from across the region.  

Best of all, for this weekend, entry to Normanby Hall Country Park will be completely free! So please do come and enjoy our festival of creativity…and don’t forget to tell all your friends! 

The No Limits Festival takes place on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September from 10am to 4pm.

Stay up to date with all things No Limits by following the festival Facebook page. You can also join the event on Facebook.

Meet your 2024 authors

For the children...

We're delighted that the following authors will be joining us at this year's festival:

• Alison Brown (Billie's Buzz)

• A.M. Dassu (Boy, Everywhere, Kicked Out)

• Christina Gabbitas (Roo and Sarge to the Rescue / Save Us)

• Emma Carroll (The Houdini Inheritance / Letters from the Lighthouse)

• Harriet Muncaster (Isadora Moon / Emerald)

• Helen Peters (The Great Farm Rescue / The Secret Hen House Theatre)

• Jenny McLachlan (The Land of Roar / Stink)

• Katherine Woodfine (Sinclair's Mysteries / new adaptation of Anne of Green Gables)

• Mike Barfield (A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu, and You)

• Peter Bunzl (Glassborn / Cogheart)

• Petr Horacek (Blue Monster)

• Richard O'Neill (master storyteller!)

• Ryan Vernel (Lochview Mysteries)

• Sophie Anderson (The Thief Who Sang Storms / The House with Chicken Legs)

• Sophy Henn (Lifesize series / Happy Hills)

For the grown ups...

• Jay the Author (Dear Stranger)

• Lucy Adlington (The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women who Sewed to Survive)

• Paul Thompson (Beware of the Bull: The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray)

• Phillipa East (I'll Never Tell / A Guilty Secret)

• Rickard Sisters (The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists)

Live performances and activities

• Adam Russell Dance with Fairground Reminiscence (Immersive celebration of fairground culture)

• Firestorm Majorettes Scunthorpe

• Kazbah Theatre presents 'Cap'n Fishcake and his Fabulous Fish Fingers'

• Professor Pumpernickel's Science Show

• Rock Choir Lincolnshire

• STEMPunx Lincs (STEM related activities and experiments!)

• Taiko drumming with Coritani Creative

• Tsunami Allstars Cheerleading

• The Folk Stage (ft. Out on a Limb, Peet Jackson, and many more!)

• Three Voices Ensemble (stories, poetry, music, humour)