About Bell Square & Watermans

About Bell Square

Bell Square is Hounslow’s permanent outdoor performance space with a vibrant programme of art, circus, dance, theatre and performance programmed and delivered by Watermans.

Between May and November each year and sometimes before and beyond, Bell Square presents a high-quality programme that is surprising and sometimes challenging with audiences often coming back week after week to experience explosive acrobatics, powerful dance, beguiling theatre, highly skilled circus and mesmerising street performance by international as well as UK artists. Bell Square is a powerful reminder of the way story-telling performance, visual installations designed for the streets can bring communities and audiences together like nothing else – and it is free for everyone to watch.

About Watermans

Watermans’ mission is to bring communities together through cultural practice and to enrich lives through the arts and creativity. It acts as a producer, curator, and connector, bringing together artists and audiences to present a programme that includes international outdoor performance and new media art at Bell Square London from May to November (including in 2025 the Theatre is Freedom | Teatr to Wolność festival as part of the UK/Poland Season), a programme for Disabled children and young people, which is both accessible and aspirational, as well as large-scale and micro cross-artform creative events across Hounslow and online.

Watermans is funded by Hounslow Council and Arts Council England.