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Departure Lounge 2024

By Visit Derby

Created January 1, 2023

Last updated July 3, 2025

Departure Lounge is celebrating its 12th anniversary, on this summer at Derby Theatre from Thursday 11 until Friday 12 July, a fantastic summer festival of fresh and thrilling theatre with a bumper line-up of shows, works-in-progress, workshops, gatherings and a hub for fresh, contemporary, cutting edge and innovative performance. Departure Lounge sees Derby Theatre transformed into a fabulous performance-filled festival site, with shows in many different spaces across the building…so, calling all artists and audiences, why not come and join us this summer?! 

See below for festival highlights:

Festival Highlights

Carbon Literacy Project event artwork Design Futures: Carbon Literacy Training for Theatre Designers and their Associates
Producer Gathering event artwork Producer Gathering Event
Recruit event artwork Recruit
Dual event artwork Dual
World Kiosk event artwork World Kiosk
When we see ourselves event artwork When We See Ourselves
Departure Lounge launch event artwork Departure Lounge 2024 Launch Event
Luckiest Girl Alive event artwork The Luckiest Girl Alive
A Citizens Assembly event artwork A Citizens’ Assembly
Speakers Corner event artwork Speakers’ Corner
Departure Lounge Panel Discussion event artwork Departure Lounge 2024 Panel Discussion
Kill the Cop event artwork Kill the Cop Inside Your Head
Sanctuary Scratch event artwork Sanctuary Scratch
Speed Meetings event artwork Speed Meetings
Story Chefs event artwork Story Chefs
Look After Your Knees event artwork Look After Your Knees
Talking about the Fire event artwork Talking About the Fire
DJ Omar After Party event artwork DJ Omar Afterparty

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