About the Festival
What
The Worcester Festival - Events, Activities & Fun for Everyone
The Festival is an opportunity for local people to attend and particupate in a wide selection of professional and community events and activities or even stage or host their own event. The Festival is for the people of Worcester and the surrounds and is a series of partnerships between large cross sections of the community, and an umbrella for a huge range of activities.
The Worcester Festival is not a music festival, nor an arts festival (although has features of both), but is simply a festival for all to enjoy.
It is a coming together of people of all ages and backgrounds and is a celebration of life, of Worcester and its people.
The Worcester Festival is made up of events and activities that are programmed by Worcester Live, plus events organised by other individuals and organisations, which are registered with Festival. Click here for details on how to register your own event.
Who
The Worcester Festival is organised and operated by Worcester Live, an independent company which runs both the Swan Theatre and Huntingdon Hall as well as The Ghost Walks of Worcester and the two week annual outdoor Shakespeare at the Commandery event.
When
The Festival runs for 2 or 3 weeks in August, and although it starts on a different date each year – it always ends on Bank Holiday Monday, culminating in the most fantastic fireworks display.
Every three years the Festival runs for an extra week to incorporate the Three Choirs Festival, Annual week-long classical music event that rotates between Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester.
Since it began in 2003 the Festival has grown each year, in terms of the number of events, the number of venues involved and the number of people enjoying those events.
