Bath Festivals

An Evening with Adrian Tchaikovsky and Lauren Beukes is not to be missed.

📆 Wednesday 3rd April
📍 Waterstones Bath

Find out more and book your tickets here:
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-and-lauren-beukes/bath

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We can barely contain our excitement for revealing who some of the fantastic authors will be joining us in Bath in May for .

All will be revealed tomorrow so make sure you're signed up to our newsletter to be the first to hear.

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From Monday 18 March Friends of the Festival will get the chance to jump the queue and book early for The Bath Festival 2024!

Not yet a Friends of the Festival member? Here's your invite to become one!

Click here 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/2YvsR2B

Dates for the diary...
The Big Announcement: Friday 15 March
General Booking: Friday 22 March

From £36 a year your membership can help us bring exciting events to Bath and you can enjoy knowing you won't miss out on tickets so we look forward to you joining our lovely Festival Family.



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⭐️ We’re so excited to be partnering with Parameter Events for their Battle of the Bands competition. ⭐️

One of them will be lucky enough to play a slot in Parade Gardens during the night of Party in the City. We can’t wait to find out who it is!

Twelve bands compete over three heats for a slot in the final at Burdall's Yard where they could win £150 cash and a free day recording at Cave Studios, a slot at Party In The City or a free photoshoot with Steve Evans. Judged by a mixture of audience vote and four industry judges, Head 2 Head will be a competition to remember and the heat is on.

H1 - 8th March
H2 - 5th April
H3 - 12th April
Final - April 20th

All heats will take place at St James’ Wine Vaults, and the final will be at Burdall’s Yard.

Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets - £5 Adv (worth three votes) / £6 OTD (worth two votes)

Come and join the fun!



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Celebrating Books and Music in a Beautiful City

📚 🎶 The Bath Festival 🎶 📚

Friday 17 May - Sunday 26 May



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3 things you might not know about The Bath Festival 💡

1️⃣ Explore Bath's historic venues.
Bath Festival takes place all over The City. Fantastics events in stunning historic venues.

2️⃣ Events for everyone! Whether you're a fan of fiction, poetry, creative writing, thrillers, or nature, there is something for everyone. If you want to learn more about the universe, your body, history, nature or politics, then keep your eyes peeled for our programme announcement!

3️⃣ Party in the City is a FREE party across The City to kick off The Bath Festival in May. What's not to love about that!

More info coming soon...



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Your invitation 📝

To celebrate the start of The Bath Festival 2024 we are throwing Bath's biggest FREE party!

We had 130 artists and 40 venues apply across the City of Bath...

💥 WOW 💥
..more news coming soon, but in the mean time... Save the date!

Friday 17 May



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We're busy beavering away behind the scenes getting The Bath Festival ready for May.

Make sure you SAVE THE DATE
>>> 17-26 May

What were your favourite bits of The Bath Festival in 2023?

Best events?
Happiest moments?

We'd love to hear your memories and see your photos.

Here are some of our favourites that you have shared with us



Thank you to

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We recently had the pleasure of attending St John’s Foundation’s 850th Celebration. 💯

We are so grateful to St John's for sponsoring our Children's Literature Festival which means we can provide free tickets to children within their supported schools and arrange author visits to inspire and ignite a love of reading.

St John's are a Bath based charity, whose mission is to change lives, for good, have been operating since 1174 and continue to make an impact today. A fantastic day, attended by many inspiring individuals and organisations.

We look forward to following their work in the years to come. ⭐

Last night we enjoyed celebrating all of the Bath Life Awards 2024 Finalists along with our friends at Bath Forum and Bath Box Office. 🥳

Good luck to all the finalists and we can't wait until 29 Feb 👀

We are so proud of being named as a Finalist for our work in 2023! 🥳

⭐️ 2023 was such a fun year for us as a charity. We programmed two incredible festivals and events with Elizabeth Day and Michael Palin. We introduced young people to the power of songs in our Schools' Voices programme and we got the party started in Bath at Party in the City!

Good luck to everyone else nominated! 🤩

It’s Giving Tuesday! 🥳

As a charity, we are reliant on the support of those who believe the arts are crucial to the city of Bath. As well as bringing your favourite authors and musicians to the city, we also run our year-round Creative Learning programme encouraging children to enjoy and pursue the arts.

Your donations help support these endeavours and mean we can keep delivering festivals that excite and ignite. 💯

For more information and to support us head to https://bit.ly/SupportBathFestivals

Join Michael at as he reveals the quest behind his new book Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire. This is the journey he took to discover the story of his grandfather's brother, Harry, born in 1884 and killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 ❤

Bag yourself a book & ticket deal to be one of the first to get your hands on a SIGNED copy and to hear the story from Michael himself. Ticket link here - https://bit.ly/44a48mk

It's time for a Sunday Share from Bath Arts Collective! 🌟

FilmBath Festival’s annual awards evening where we select the winner of the IMDb New Filmmaker Award for their short film submission. You can expect remarkable industry judges, tangible excitement and a chance to meet fellow film enthusiasts 🎥

Monday 23 October | 6.30pm | Komedia ➡ https://bit.ly/3s69UH2

It's time for a Sunday Share from Bath Arts Collective! 🌟
Enjoy a top notch slice of Edinburgh Fringe with 22 hand-picked, affordable preview shows presented at The Hop Pole over the last two weeks of July (not Thursdays and Sundays) 🤩

Featuring Freya Mallard, Stuart Goldsmith, Janine Harouni, Dan Tiernan, Nabil Abdulrashid, Fiona Allen, Larry Dean, Horatio Gould, Aideen McQueen, Samantha Day, Alex Kitson, Nick Doody, Dave Chawner, David H***e, Sam Michael, Adam Flood, Ben Harrington, Matt Price, Sachin Kumarendran, Eva Bindeman, Rosie Holt and Ronnie Golden! 😄

Full details and online booking at www.bathcomedy.com Bath Comedy Festival (choice of box offices) - all shows are affordable (£6 or £7) ✨

We had a blast at the awards last week and were thrilled to take home the Arts Organisation Award! 🎉

Thank you to Creative Bath and congratulations to all the other winners and finalists, we had a fabulous evening! 🥂

Featuring the spectacular judge herself, our executive director Kate Hall 🤩

TONIGHT St Luke's Church, 7.30pm 🎶

Nicole Medin, the lovely young Ukrainian singer, is sharing the stage with one of Bath's most established choirs, our friends, the Silver Ring Choir of Bath ❤

Nicole was a great success at her concert at Bath Abbey in February with her hauntingly beautiful voice. Don't miss this chance to hear her again! 🌟

Proceeds are going to provide urgent medical supplies for the Children's Hospital in Oleksandriya, Bath's friendship city in Ukraine ❤

There's still time to book your tickets via Bath Box Office ➡ https://bit.ly/3JhI6Ft

It's time for a Sunday Share from Bath Arts Collective! 🌟

Join If Opera at Belcombe Court for a night of jazz and soul this August. With music from jazz pianist Jason Rebello with Joy Rose, and 'swamp soul' 7-piece band The Coalminers, bring a picnic and spend a relaxing evening in this fabulous garden of delights 🎶

Book now ➡️ ifopera.com/picnic-prom-2023

It's time for a Sunday Share from Bath Arts Collective! 🌟

The Bath Festival's Concert for the People of Bath returns featuring superstar Esther Yoo performing one of the fastest violin concertos ever. Plus, a symphonic-sized Bath Phil shows the power of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite and are joined by a choir of 120 young people 🎶

https://bit.ly/3BiA22Q

We're hiring! 🤩

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Head of Marketing and Communications to join our small creative team 🔍

Find out more here ➡ https://lnkd.in/gB--kph

🌟 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🌟

We are thrilled to be welcoming the legendary writer and entertainer Michael Palin to Bath, alongside our Festival Bookseller Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights on 7 October at The Forum, Bath (Official) 🤩

Join Michael to celebrate the launch of his compelling new book, Great Uncle-Harry: A Tale of War and Empire – the story of his grandfather's brother, Harry, born in 1884 and killed in the Battle of the Somme 1916. Michael will tell all about the quest to find out more about his Great Uncle and the painstaking detective work that went into this account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life ❤️

Book & Ticket (excl. fees) £25
Ticket only (excl fees) £15
Concessions (excl. fees) £12
*Limited number of ticket only option available*

General booking opens Friday 5 May ➡ https://bit.ly/44a48mk

Become a Member & book from 3 May ➡ https://bit.ly/3J8sRiE

It's time for a Sunday Share from Bath Arts Collective! 🌟

General booking opens today for If Opera's 2023 season! 🥳

Don't miss out on this festival of rare gems and family favourites in beautiful Bradford on Avon running from 24 August - 16 September at Belcombe Court and Wiltshire Music Centre 🤩

Book via their website ➡ ifopera.com

We were lucky enough to have songwriting duo, Hushwing perform the other week at the Coach Travel Association evening at Hampton by Hilton Bath hosted by Visit West 🎶

The pair is whole-heartedly welded together by an adoration for travel, outdoors and one another bringing a delicately crafted fusion of folk, alternative-indie and pop ✨

Hushwing will also be performing at Party in the City (The Bath Festival) so be sure to check them out! 🤩

We were over the moon last night to be awarded the Arts & Creative Award ! 🏆
We were amongst SO many wonderful creative organisations in our category ! 🥰
Thanks Bath Life Awards for hosting such an incredible evening. ✨

We're hiring! 🤩

Would you like to join a small yet mighty, friendly festival team? 😄

We're looking for a freelance marketer for our digital Reading is Magic Festival who can bring their creativity, eye for detail and enthusiasm to the festival 🌟

Find out more and how to apply on our website ➡ https://bit.ly/3mZ81t4

Want to make sure you don’t miss your festival favourites at The Bath Festival 2023? 👀

Become a member from just £25 for priority booking so you can grab your tickets earlier! 🌟

Priority booking starts from 14 March – 3 DAYS before general booking opens to the public. Now’s the time to join as a Bath Festivals member and become a part of a community that is passionate about the arts in Bath 🤩

Join now and get your tickets early for this year’s ! ➡ https://bit.ly/3J8sRiE