Activated in Yorkshire for the first time, the festival ignites Barnsley into a temporary site to test ambitious new ideas and platform radical international and UK artists.

In our 10th festival edition, we examine infrastructure as a lived material and cultural condition, illuminating the connection between people and place. We examine the networks, historical extraction legacies, and social climates that underpin contemporary life in the North of England.

Through a programme of immersive installation, durational performance, film premieres and stimulating talks from leading experts, the festival meets Barnsley's ambitions to be the UK's leading tech town, and the North's identity as a place of creativity, innovation and cultural exchange.

Across sound, simulation, and participatory systems, the festival dwells in the liminal zones of place, where connection emerges over isolation, where infrastructures reveal the uneven geographies of industry, ecology, and community, where collective imaginaries take shape through shared experience.

AND Festival 2026 presents playful opportunities to encounter the in-between. Join us to reimagine relationships between humans, landscapes, and the built environments we inhabit that inform our daily rhythms.