This week's new events

Fuse Medway Festival With many towns now putting on summer arts festivals, there are a lot of thin programmes that don't include much beyond local amateur groups. Not so with Fuse, which gets the ratio of art to quirk just about right. It kicks off in Chatham, with demonstrations in speed-painting, slapstick theatre and circus skills. Tomorrow in Rochester, cyclists can join in the Velodrone concert, where pedal power is converted to sound and music. Periplum's site-specific theatre piece 1000 Revolutions Per Moment (Fri to 19 Jun) arrives in a version tailored to the streets of Gillingham, and it all goes out with a bang in a (literally) fiery finale on the River Medway. Various venues, Sat to 26 Jun Stuart Goodwin Peckham Peacocks , London Peckham's newly opened outdoor arts space celebrates the rise and rise of the mobility scooter with this mod-themed rally. It's worth attending just to witness daring stunts from the Red Wheelies formation display team, who are a little like the Red Arrows, only with electric motors and no wings. You can also have your scooter given the once-over by mechanics, get a 60s-style makeover, join the Peckham Peacocks Mobility Scooter Club, or go for a test ride under the guidance of one of the Peacocks' ace faces. Peckham Square & High Street, SE15, Sat Iain Aitch Kreatures , London If "animatronics meets bass" makes you think dancing robots, think again. John Nolan, Gustav Hoegen and Josh Head have created animatronic creatures for the likes of Terry Gilliam, Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze and Guillermo Del Toro. Less Metal Mickey, more Aliens, in this stunning collaborative art, dance and design installation with InteraKt DJs, weird and wonderful machine creatures will be moving in sync to exclusively produced DJ sets led by Starkey, Untold and Milanese, with visuals from Schoony and a theatrical set design. Beyond clubland, this will be true cyber vision made real. Corsica Studios, SE17, Sat Out & about West End Festival , Glasgow, to 27 Jun Getting into full swing this weekend with Festival Sunday's five stages of performances in Kelvingrove Park, and mythical creatures of the Mardi Gras parade snaking along Kelvin Way. Various venues Covent Garden's 180th Anniversary , London, Sat & Sun Celebrate the shopping area's birthday with a spree of street cabaret, party games, workshops, a free BFI screening – plus a giant cake! Covent Garden, WC1 Children's Festival , Sheffield, Sat to 3 Jul Haiku poetry, creative bunnies, mashed-up history, stop motion animation, open art studios and much more. Various venues, call 0114-273 4400 Borders Book Festival , Melrose, Thur to 20 Jun Aliens, vampires and railways are explored alongside appearances by names such as Jackie Kay, Fergal Keane and Shirley Williams. Various venues, call 0844-357 1060