24 - 27 August 2023
Returning in 2024 with his flexible team of versatile performers, Professor Elmo is committed to his people-friendly and child-centred style of new wave non-animal circus and clown theatre!
With a long list of activities including traditional Punch & Judy, circus skill workshops as well as educational shows such as their Clown of Science, there’s going to be something for everyone to enjoy!
Come join the fun at Chaos Corner! From crazy experiments with Professor Pumpernickel, amazing stories with Ian Douglas and musical adventures with Gacko, there’s something for kids of all ages (and adults too!).
BoomDang will be providing mega drumming workshops, The Magic Lantern brings captivating performances and you can find Joe, Froggy, Alfie and more providing hours of fun (and chaos!) in the tent!
Make sure to keep an eye out for the Songsmiths too! You’ll catch Dick and Tan trundling around the festival pushing their mobile music factory - ever ready to write a bespoke song for you and your family!
Fancy getting active at Camper Calling?
Head over to One Adventure and get involved in a whole host of activities. For a small fee we'll have archery to rock climbing, laser tag to tomahawk throwing, channel your inner wild and get competitive with your family!
These activities are booked on the day in the Carnival Field.
No screens, no controllers but ALL your favourite arcade games!
Welcome to the Actual Reality Arcade. Pilot a spaceship across the galaxy and survive an onslaught of aliens in Defender, or shoot them down in Space Invaders! Out run your ghoulish mates as you become Pac-Man or even take on everyone's 80's puzzle favourite, Tetris!
The Actual Reality Arcade will be available all weekend at Camper Calling, so come and bring the games to life!
Perfect Petals UK is a luxury, award-winning florist using British blooms. The creative team provides a bespoke service to ensure you have maximum fun making a floral crown! Your unique floral arrangement is crafted with your theme or style, with your vision at the heart of each design. Get creative with Perfect Petals at Camper Calling!
Bright British blooms, scented and dried flowers will be on display for you to pick your favourite and be taught to create a bespoke floral crown. There will be hourly tutorials with a wide selection of flower bank to choose from.
Workshops will be running in the Crafters Calling tent from 10am!
In our family lantern making workshops families will work together to create large-size lanterns using traditional withy sculpture and tissue paper. Lanterns can be left to dry over the weekend and then collected and lit on Sunday evening where you’ll take part in a magical Lantern Adventure! Delivered in character, by two Jolly Forresters, this workshop is part making activity, part performance, ALL FUN!
Lasts approx. 60 mins.
Workshop slots available Friday and Saturday
Lantern Adventure Parade takes place Sunday afternoon and evening.
Guy’s Gift has been delivering bereavement support to children, young people and their families across Coventry and Warwickshire since 2009. To date they have been able to help over 3500 children and young people to process their grief after the death of someone important to them.
At Camper Calling, Guy’s Gift will be providing crafty and holistic activities, help to families or just a quiet place to relax. There will also be a tombola and raffle, so pop by and support their cause if you can!
They charity support people in a variety of ways, including group support where children and young people meet with others in a similar situation to themselves and attend sessions led by their experienced team of staff and volunteers. Some children and young people may receive one-to-one support or counselling from Guy’s Gift, where one of the team will visit them in their school.
They also have a growing ‘support to support’ offer, where they provide advice and guidance to those already working with a bereaved child or young person.
They are a community based charity, which means they don’t have a fixed base. They take support to children and families where it is needed.
Are you Coventry or Warwickshire based? Can you help Guy’s Gift to continue this vital support for local families? Might you be able to volunteer with us, or perhaps you’d like to make a donation?
For more information about volunteering, visit their website
Make a donation to Guy’s Gift here
Come and get your fingers Muddy and glaze a lovely piece of pottery to take home!
A beautiful souvenir to keep to remind you of the best weekend ever!
A fee is payable for this activity.
Come and make a great festival souvenir from an old vinyl record at The Groovy Records Workshop. You can transform an old LP into a clock, mirror, photo frame or spinning top, using paints, a bike wheel, scrapers and glitter. We guarantee you will be delighted with the results. You even get an original record sleeve to take it home in. Please note, no decent records are harmed in this workshop!
Pre-booking will be available but not necessary, just pop by and get stuck in for a small fee.
Create a beautiful suncatcher and stand using panes of reclaimed glass and wood. Using a range of special paints, decorate the glass before you safely ‘press and twist’ forming colourful magical swirls to create your own unique design piece. Finish it off by making a stand from reclaimed wood.
Come and make a great festival souvenir from cutlery and turn them into quirky hooks for your home!
Pre-booking will be available but not necessary, just pop by and get stuck in for a small fee.
Get crafty with Handcrafted Jewellery by Jo! Fun for all ages, making bracelets and necklaces using silver plated and coloured wires or elastic. Make something fun for yourself to remember Camper Calling, or how about making a friendship bracelet? Pass your bracelets on to brighten someone's day or wear your jewellery with pride all weekend! The perfect Calling souvenir.
Please note, children must be supervised by a parent at all times.
Keep your little ones occupied with all sorts of ‘hands-on’ fun in the Kidz Paint Yurt! Pull up a pew and get stuck in, making jewellery, key-rings and being creative with pottery painting too! For the more energetic kids they also have bouncy animals, skipping ropes, hula hoops and much more!
Open all weekend for kids of all ages, there is plenty to make, see and do!
Get streety with graffiti!
Get ready to get your hands dirty and learn the art of graffiti.
Under the tuition of our very own artists, you'll contribute to another Calling masterpiece. Grab a can and join in!
We're not telling Little Lies, the magical Fleetwood Bac join us Sunday night!
You can go your own way, but you’d be silly to miss the one and only Fleetwood Bac! Endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, these guys have the sound, the look, the mystical atmosphere and that all important on-stage chemistry!
Regarded as the UK’s most authentic Fleetwood Mac Tribute show, it's one not to miss on Sunday night at Camper Calling.
Join Stellan from the wonderful Salsa Souls and get two stepping over at the Carnival Stage! With classes everyday, grab your partner, dip those hips and learn some new moves to bust out over the weekend!
Having toured with the likes of Mos Def and Bonobo and performed at Glastonbury and Bestival, to name but a few, Lazy habits offer up brass-fueled soulful hip-hop stories.
“The best house party your parents never wanted you to have.”
“One of the most exciting acts to come out of London in some time.”
The London seven-piece describe their sound as “beats, rhymes and brass of the highest calibre”, and it’s easy to hear that confidence ooze from the pores of their self-titled debut album. Their onstage energy is contagious and will stay with you long after they’ve left the stage, and it’s this bombastic energy that has seen their music championed by UK tastemakers such as Huw Stephens, Joss Stone, Ghostpoet and a host of BBC Radio DJs.
It’s hip hop, Jim; But not as we know it…
“They nod to big band jazz, soul and bop while MC Lazy spits classic UK hip-hop patterns dripping with clever rhymes...lyrically, they’re edgy and relevant.”
Hailing from Bracknell, Berkshire via Indiana, The Hoosiers have been purveyors of some of the finest vintage indie pop for the last decade.
Following the release of their 2007 chart-topping debut album The Trick To Life, which included the massive singles “Goodbye Mr. A” and “Worried About Ray”, their sound has evolved. That bombastic pop has matured into something more electronic and synthetic, but ultimately just as enjoyable.
With influences ranging from The Cure, The Flaming Lips and Giorgio Moroder, you can rest assured that their eclectic earworms will get you on your feet.
