One of the biggest events in the Whitchurch calendar, the Blackberry Fair, takes place this weekend.

The fair, in its 10th year when it takes place on Saturday and has announced its first acts, with more special guests and events to be announced.

Steve Chapman, who organises the event, said: “This is our 10th year and we want to make it a real day to remember.”

The acts to be announced are Urban Astronaut, which provides a glimpse of a future that might be, where problems surrounding air pollution have grown to crisis point.

Combining stunning design, unseen before aerial performance with storytelling and moving dance performance, Urban Astronaut travels through towns and cities searching for a solution to the environmental disaster in our near future.

Visitors will see ‘Lost Luggage’, a semi-sentient, metallic beastie from outer space, which is half dinosaur and half machine and constructed from the lost luggage of a mysteriously missing race from a long lost planet.

Finally, for celebrating 10 years of Blackberry Fair, there will be poetry as you’ve probably never seen it before as 15 contemporary and original poets battle live on stage to earn the title of Blackberry Fair Poetry Champion 2017.

Tickets cost just £5 in advance from Whitchurch Civic Centre or for online bookings please contact blackberryfair@gmail.com