Alpaca Festival

We’ve updated the deadline for proposals to our open call. The deadline for initial submissions is still end of 1st November 2026 UTC. Please click ‘submit’ by then. However, you will still be able to update and refine submissions for a further week, until a hard deadline of 8th November. Your proposal should at least…

For those wondering about the shape of the festival, here’s the schedule so far for our Spring 2027 festival: Sheffield Our festival in Sheffield will run from Thursday 6th until Sunday 9th May 2027. We are currently confirming venues in central Sheffield, a short walk from the train station. It will showcase performances, workshops and…

Our open call for performances, workshops and conference talks is now live ! If you’re an artist, musician, craftperson or otherwise confused, and have a project or idea you’d like to share in the form of a performance, conference talk or workshop, please get involved!

The second Alpaca festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts will take place 6-9th May 2027 (we’re on a one-and-a-half yearly cycle) in Sheffield UK. We hope to also include additional activities in other cities, as well as online. We are in early stages of planning, so for now please enjoy this short recap…