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A Day in the Festival Life of a PR Officer
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at The Bath Festival? While the festival would have been happening, we’re sharing a series of articles from our festival team and partners to give you some insight into what goes on to make the festival happen! Below is a day in festival life from PR Officer, Georgette […]
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A Day in the Festival Life of a Literature Programmer
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at The Bath Festival? While the festival would have been happening, we’re sharing a series of articles from our festival team and partners to give you some insight into what goes on to make the festival happen! Below is a day in festival life from Literature Programmer Kate Abbey. […]
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DIGITAL EVENT: Watch Neil Gaiman and Sam Weller celebrate Ray Bradbury
We were so thrilled to recently present an event at The Big Book Weekend, a three-day virtual festival that brought together the best of events from various cancelled spring arts festivals in the UK, produced in association with BBC Arts and Arts Council England. An amazing 20,000 people joined together to celebrate a shared love […]
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Bath Festivals Memories – Led Zeppelin, Terry Pratchet, Vera Lynn and more
Since the 1940s, we’ve been celebrating the joy of music, books and performance in Bath. Of course, at the centre of all of these festivals have been audiences. For that reason, we’re asking for your favourite festival memories! We’ve loved reading your responses, step back in time below. If you’d like to help us survive […]
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Party in the City: Creative Learning through the years
Each year we co-create a new performance piece with schools and community groups which opens The Bath Festival as part of Party in the City. The participants work with different musicians, composers, choreographers and artists, who weave together the participants ideas and creations into a celebratory piece that’s shared with families, friends and our community […]
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Your Virtual Weekend #8
The Bath Festival 2020 was scheduled to open this weekend. For the next couple of weeks, we planned to be immersing ourselves in live music, author talks and community fun as we celebrated the joy of seeing your favourite performer live or discovering your new favourite writer. Sadly this cannot take place. However, we will […]
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Party in the City Memories
Since the 1940s, we’ve been celebrating the joy of music, books and performance in Bath. Of course, at the centre of all of these festivals have been audiences. For that reason, we’re asking for your favourite festival memories! Here are two recollections from Dan Brown and Christopher Hansford, both reflecting on Party in the City, the […]
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Party in the City Virtual Quiz – Friday 15 May at 7pm
A fun, family friendly quiz featuring an introduction by legendary musician Midge Ure! Every May, Party in the City sees Bath city centre burst into life for one night only with a colourful celebration of arts and community, kicking off The Bath Festival. While this year’s event has been postponed, you’re still invited to put […]
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Your Virtual Weekend #7
While almost every concert, book tour and theatre performance due to take place this weekend has been postponed or cancelled, musicians, authors and artists are coming together to share inspiring content from all corners of the globe. This is our weekly guide to just a few of the amazing gigs, concerts, shows, exhibitions and more […]
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Bath Festivals In Time: A Look Back Through The Archives
For more than 70 years, Bath Festivals have brought world-leading musicians and authors to Bath. We’ve been sifting through the Bath in Time archives recently and came across these fascinating images of our festivals though the decades. If you’d like to see Bath Festivals survive for future generations, you can donate to our Crowdfunder here […]
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