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Authors and Illustrators Descend on the Historic City of Bath this Autumn for the Children’s Literature Festival
Books and stories come alive this autumn as Bath Children’s Literature Festival lands on Friday 29 September. The festival brings over 100 of the hottest debut, local and national writers, creators, and illustrators from the world of young people’s books to places and spaces across the city of Bath. Joining us for an autumn programme […]
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Wow! The Opening Weekend of The Bath Festival 2023 Went by in Such a Whirl
What an opening weekend of The Bath Festival 2023! It was so good to see so many hundreds of people, of all ages, packing the venues on Friday night for Party in the City. Bath Abbey was filled with the beautiful sound of the young singers from Schools’ Voices, our festival choir who performed their […]
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Let’s Talk About What Really Matters
Podcasts are brilliant and TV and radio are great for keeping up with what’s going on in the world. But you can’t beat the first-hand experience of being in the room with someone who’s lived and breathed their subject and has been in the thick of it. At The Bath Festival we’ve invited key people […]
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It’s Time to Party in the City!
Save the date: Friday 12 May for the opening night of The Bath Festival You are invited to join Bath’s biggest FREE party on Friday 12 May as the city centre bursts into life, with hundreds of singers and musicians performing in dozens of venues for our entertainment. Musicians, poets, bands and choirs will perform […]
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Visit West Staff’s Top 5 Picks for The Bath Festival 2023
Our friends over at Visit West have been eyeing up our programme and chosen their top picks for Festival Week. What takes your fancy? Shonette Laffy, Digital Marketing Manager: 1. Party in the City – always a good way to kickstart the week’s festivities with music across several stages. And it’s free too! […]
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The Bath Festival 2023 Programme Revealed!
THE BATH FESTIVAL 2023: OPENING UP NEW EXPERIENCES Friday 12 May – Saturday 21 May 2023 The Bath Festival 2023 focuses on the theme Opening Up for its internationally renowned annual celebration of music and books in May. The festival will hold over 130 events in more than 50 of Bath’s distinctive buildings and spaces. […]
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Looking Back at 2022 – A Year at Bath Festivals
We can hardly believe that another year is coming to an end and here at Bath Festivals it’s certainly be one to remember! 2022 was filled with unforgettable festival moments, from Party in the City’s return after a two year gap at The Bath Festival to Alice Oseman’s sold-out events at Bath Children’s Literature Festival. We also […]
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Bath Festivals Back in Time…
We made a very exciting discovery in the Bath Festivals office recently – photographic films from past festivals! Although we can’t tell exactly when these images were taken, a few clues tell us that they range from the 1970s to the 1990s! Such as this lady enjoying a Bath Festival programme outside the Royal Crescent […]
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That’s All For Now from Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2022!
What a festival we’ve had! There was so much love for stories, for writers, for illustrators and, most of all for all those young book fans who came and made the Bath Children’s Literature Festival such a huge success. We had so many of your favourite writers and personalities visiting our festival over its ten […]
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And We’re Off! Bath Children’s Literature Festival Has Begun
And we’re off! The opening weekend of Bath Children’s Literature Festival got off to a flying start with star turns from some of our best loved authors and illustrators. We were so happy to open our doors to see young fans coming to hear writers talk live about their adventure stories, to lead interactive sessions […]
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