Rude Health Festival 2025

Artist-led community charity The Tute presents its most ambitious season yet with the return of Rude Health Festival, offering a wealth of world-class, anarchic and daring performances addressing the community’s needs. Running from 3 October to 5 December 2025, the festival platform’s themes of health, belonging, womanhood, grief, and care. Explored through a rich season of dance, theatre, film and visual art, Rude Health Festival is staged entirely from one of the most unexpected artistic epicentres in the UK: a repurposed miners’ welfare institute in a newly ‘Reform’ parish council ward in Cambois, Southeast Northumberland.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural edition, the 2025 programme raises the bar with a vibrant line-up. This line-up includes winner of the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award and Total Theatre Award at Edinburgh Festival 2017, Liz Aggiss, Alistair McDowall (The Glow Royal Court; Pomona National Theatre), Yuvel Soria (Ballet Folclórico Municipal Cochabamba, Dance City Newcastle), Alex Oates (NT Peter Schaffer commission and RSC 37 plays winner), Lucy Suggate (Tender Stones FABRIC; Dancing Museums National Gallery), and the winner of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Charlie Ford.

Joint Artistic Director Alex Oates adds, We’re proving that tackling public health issues and creating community impact doesn’t mean compromising on artistic ambition. Our audience deserve the same calibre of work you’d see in London or Edinburgh, and we’re bringing it here!

This season brings together bold new performances, reimagined community projects, and unforgettable stories told through dance, theatre, film, and celebration.

Programme Dates 

• 3rd October 2025:  AJAYU Transitorio by Yuvel Soria
• 4th October 2025: Here Be Dragons by Unfolding Theatre 
• 12th October 2025: Cambois Hidden Depths Revisited
• 1st - 2nd November 2025: Stronger Shores Exhibition
• 15th November 2025: Hexed! by Lucy Suggate and Charlie Ford
• 21st November 2025: all of it by Alistair McDowall
• 28th November 2025: Women, Dance & Sea
• 29th November 2025: Crone Alone by Liz Aggiss 
• 5th December 2025: From the Sea (Work-in-Progress) by Alex Oates

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