The 2021 Festival is over and was a great success. 

Thanks to all of you who came to watch the performances, listen to the talks or learn new skills at the workshops.  And also to the many volunteers who gave their time, the venues who provided the space, our sponsors, especially our Festival-wide sponsors Hollingsworth & Vose and Sheldon Bosley Knight, and the performers and presenters who all contributed so much.

Our Media Partner, Radio Winchcombe, will broadcast a Festival roundup programme on Saturday 2 October from 10.00 until noon.

Win A Cream Tea For 2 At The Old Bakery!

Visit Cressida Pryor’s studio on the Art Trail (venue 12) and take on the Self-Portrait challenge.  You’ll have 5 minutes to draw a self-portrait. These will be displayed at Winchcombe Museum on October 9th for people to vote on who they would like to go for a cup of tea with. The one with the most votes wins a cream tea for 2 at the Old Bakery.

Many thanks to the Old Bakery for their kind offer.

The Festival Box Office has moved from Sheldon Bosley Knight.  It will be a Pop Up Box Office at various events over the weekend where you will be able to buy tickets for later events. 

On Friday 17th this Pop Up Box Office will be at the Encounter Church from 1.30 to 2.00 and 3.30 to 4.00, and St Peter’s Church 7.00 to 7.30.

On Saturday 18th it will be at St Peter’s 3.00 to 3.30, the Methodist Church 7.00 to 7.30, and the White Hart 7.30 to 8.00.

Over the weekend Sheldon Bosley Knight will be hosting the Family Detective trail as well as the artwork of David Durstan on the Art trail.

The opening of Winchcombe Tourist Information Centre has been postponed. The Festival Box Office is in Sheldon Bosley Knight, 13 North Street.

It is open from 10.00am to 2.00pm on

Monday 16 August
Wednesday 18 August
Thursday 19 August
Friday 20 August

and from 10.00am to1.00pm on

Saturday 21 August

Further dates and times will be announced.

Thank you to our Festival-wide sponsor Sheldon Bosley Knight for hosting our box office until the Tourist Information Centre opens.

Save £1 on each ticket by buying in advance, either from the box office from 16 August or online now.

To buy online, if there’s an event on the banner above that interests you, click on the picture for more details and to buy tickets, or use the What’s On option to see all the events.

 

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The gradual relaxation of Covid rules, and the signals in the press have made us optimistic about being able to hold the Festival from 17 September to 19 September.

Acts are being booked and will be announced on the website shortly.  The brochure is being prepared and if there isn’t any bad Covid news, will soon be going to the printer.  You can see more about the Festival on our Facebook and Twitter pages by using the links on the right of this page.

We had a successful AGM on 16 March, and now looking ahead to September.

We are busy preparing the 2021 Festival to be held on 17th, 18th and 19th September.  It will be a 3-day festival this year due to covid restricting our plans.

If you would like to help as a volunteer at the Festival, please email friends.wfma@gmail.com and we will be in touch.

The Festival is over for another year.  Many thanks to those who came to our events and made it such a success.

To relive some of the memories, click the Pictures option in the menu.

If you would like to be more involved or have suggestions for next year’s Festival, please email us at enquiries.wfma@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you next year.

If you saw Susy Firth at last year’s Festival you’ll be excited to hear that she’s back this year. Susy will be appearing once again with the Winchcombe Poets at the Encounter Church: Monday 20 May from 7.30pm.

Today, 30 April is the last day you can take advantage of the Early Bird Discount.  From tomorrow all tickets go up to their full price, so buy your tickets today!!