Seafest on the Barbican promises a fun-filled weekend celebrating Plymouth’s maritime heritage.

Enjoy a variety of food stalls, sea-themed crafts, roaming performers and interactive activities like face painting, shell painting, and trail explorations. Discover traditional skills with demos on lobster pot-making, fish filleting, and crab picking, and catch the lively fish auction. Enjoy the live music stage alongside the festival bar, offering refreshing drinks by the water.

Jump to: The Parade | Quay Square | Roaming Acts | Opposite Tourist Information Centre | West Pier | Commercial Wharf

The Parade

Stalls – 10am to 5pm

Visit an array of stalls selling tasty fresh dishes. The festival’s resident artist, Debby Mason, will be returning with more of her beautiful sea themed prints for sale,

Face painting – 10am to 4pm

Children will love the sea themed face painting (charge applies).

Quay Square  

Demo marquee – 10am to 4pm

Discover the fantastic fish display from Plymouth Fishing & Seafood Association.

Lobster ‘Withy’ pot making

Watch David French, a fifth-generation traditional withy pot maker.

Fisherman’s Mission ‘Hook a Duck’

Sinking sharks challenge

Shell painting – 10am to 5pm

Colouring activities with shells

Ocean Explorer Trail – 10am to 5pm

Embark on the Ocean Explorer trail for a fin-tastic adventure! Seek out 10 sea creatures hidden in local shop windows, collect stamps from each spot, and discover fascinating marine facts along the way. Once you’ve completed the trail, return to the Tourist Information Centre to claim your sweet reward.

Fish filleting demo – 11.30am and 1pm

Crab picking demo – 2.30pm 

Fish auction – 4pm

Fish auction taking place at 4pm on each day.

Roaming Acts

Octopus and Lobster – 10.30am to 11.15am, 12.30pm to 1.15pm and 2.30pm to 3.15pm

Meet the Octopus and Lobster stilt walking duo!

Giant Seagulls – 11.30am to 12noon and 3.30pm to 4pm

These cheeky sea birds have had audiences in a flap all over the world. Giant cheeky gulls with working beaks, they’ll rummage in bags and pockets, steal food from plates and picnic baskets, squabble amongst themselves and generally cause a fuss.

Fairly Fish Company – 12noon to 12.30pm, 2pm to 2.30pm and 4pm to 4.30pm

The Fairly Fresh Fish Co. move through a crowd offering the traditional fare of a seafood stall. As the audience looks down upon the tray however, they quickly realise that not all is as it should be... There are prawns dancing and an octopus springing to life alongside strange stirrings in the jellied eel jar and a worrying seafood smoothie amongst other delights.

Opposite Tourist Information Centre

The Rock Pool project – 10am to 5pm

Learn about the amazing work undertaken by The Rock Pool project

West Pier

Live music stage

Enjoy listening to host of shanty bands throughout the day. Check out the full live music schedule for the weekend. 

Festival bar

Enjoy some cool refreshments sponsored by Venton’s Devon Cyder. 

Commercial Wharf

Gordon Blur (Sunday) – 11am to 11.30am, 12.30pm to 1pm, 2pm to 3.30pm

Kitchen implements and the ingredients of gourmet meals become highly flung props for this culinary themed circus comedy juggling piece. How much fruit can one man keep in the air at the same time? Can Gordon Blur eat the ingredients whilst still juggling? And are those knives too sharp to be spun in the air?

Live music

Catch the Out of Tunas from 11.30am and Tavy Tarrs from 1pm to 1.45pm

Gables Dog Show (Sunday) – 3pm to 5pm

Bring your furry friend to Seafest and enter them into the Gables Dog Show. Rosettes are awarded to the dogs from 1st to 4th place.

Please register at the Gables gazebo on Commercial Wharf. Entry £2 per class per dog, all proceeds will go towards the welfare of the dogs and cats at Gables.

You can also enter at the dog show ring, the classes are: Prettiest girl; Handsomest boy; Waggiest tail; Dog most like its owner; Most appealing eyes; Happiest hound; Most talented trick; Best dressed salty sea dog.

There will be a championship class for all first-place winners after all classes have finished.