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THE 2025 BATH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL WELCOMES OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
Bath Children’s Literature Festival welcomes friends old and new to its fabulous 18th year of bringing the magic of books to life for our family audience. Over TEN days we will be offering over 90 live events including Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, festival favourites Liz Pichon, Rob Biddulph, The Gruffalo, and Cressida Cowell, and a […]
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MUSIC & LITERATURE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS IN MAY
In May, we kicked off the festival season with another incredible Party in the City with over 150 free gigs in 39 venues across sun-kissed Bath. The streets, parks, pubs, bars, cafes and clubs were alive with music, laughter and good vibes. Our audiences then enjoyed a huge array of stimulating literary events on a […]
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PARTY IN THE CITY KICKS OFF ON FRIDAY 16 MAY
Gather up your friends, family, neighbours and workmates and enjoy Bath’s biggest evening of FREE live music. Party in the City kicks off on Friday 16 May. Thousands of music lovers will head to Bath’s city centre on Friday 16 May from 5pm for Party in the City, where the sound of live music will spill out […]
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Bath Children’s Literature Festival welcomes Longleat to the pride
Bath Children’s Literature Festival is delighted to announce that the 2025 festival will be staged in association with Longleat. This autumn’s children’s literature festival will run from Friday 26 September to Sunday 5 October, bringing some of the biggest and best loved names in the world of children’s books to a family audience of thousands. […]
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A sell-out success for first event of 2025!
It was such a pleasure to welcome an audience of over 800 to the Forum to hear Professor Tim Spector speak about his extensive research and findings into how what we eat affects our health. Tim was joined on stage by TV and radio presenter Gaby Roslin, a healthy gut advocate, who had come armed […]
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BATH MUSIC FESTIVAL: BIGGER AND BETTER FOR 2025
Bath Festivals is delighted to present Bath Music Festival 2025, with a stellar programme of internationally renowned artists. This May’s curated collection of concerts in some of Bath’s most beautiful buildings sees twice as many events as 2024, with pieces from the classical canon, including Beethoven, JS Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Brahms, alongside some Renaissance […]
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A Look Back On 2024!
Oh what a year we had! Were you there when these brilliant LIVE events occurred? The opening night of The Bath Festival back in May, the now legendary FREE Party in the City, started the festival with style, energy and literally dozens of brilliant live music performances. A BIG thank you to all the singers […]
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That’s a wrap for The Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2023!
We have had a rip-roaring time over the last ten days with two jam packed weekends and an electric school’s programme sandwiched in the middle. Here are our highlights 🎉 Rob Biddulph kicked off the festival with his incredible draw-along and hundreds of children practiced their skills. Over the first weekend we took over The […]
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Jen Reid Interview
Activist Jen Ried, climbed on to the plinth of Edward Colston and raised her fist above her head, becoming an iconic image and one of the defining moments of 2020. Jen has an event on Sunday 8 at 1pm, link to event information here. Are you from Bath? What was it like to grow up […]
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The Bath Children’s Literature Festival has officially begun!
What an amazing start to the 2023 Bath Children’s Literature Festival! On Friday Rob Biddulph kicked us off with his epic draw-a-long. Schools from Bath and beyond all got their pencils out and drew some incredible illustrations. Rob joined us again on Saturday for a public event and we did it all again! The Forum […]
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