Welcome to our website. Desperate Men are one of the UK’s longest-running outdoor arts companies, working throughout the UK and internationally since 1980. We create street animations, produce large-scale outdoor arts projects, and create bespoke performances and education projects, often collaborating with a range of other arts organisations and partners.

You can look at some pictures on our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter , or watch some video here.

Desperate Men created several new shows for 2011, including The Pig Pen Riots, Econopoly and The Funnels. From Autumn 2011 we have an additional new show, CSI Clowns. CSI Clowns is the third in a series of science shows that includes Darwin and the Dodo, and Everything Gets Eaten. It was commissioned by the British Council in Hong Kong and Ciencia na Rua, (Science in the Streets) Estremoz, Portugal, and is touring abroad throughout the autumn. It will be available to book in the UK from December onwards.

We are also busy planning and developing Battle for the Winds a region-wide project taking place in 2012 to mark the opening celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing events.

Last year, Desperate Men celebrated our 30th birthday. To mark the occasion we held the Festival of Desperation, and invited many friends who we’d worked with over our 30 year career!

If you would like to talk to us about booking a performance or creating a project, please call or email us.