Saturday 8 July 2023, 7.30pmNew Theatre Oxford Oxford Festival of the Arts is hugely thrilled to be working with our friends at the New Theatre Oxford again this year to present something very special – the Welsh National Opera with their production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is Read more…
Saturday 15 July 2023, 7.30pmFestival Marquee Oxford Festival of the Arts is delighted to bring to the Festival Marquee this summer the internationally acclaimed BBC Big Band who will be joined by multi award-winning vocalist Claire Martin OBE, for a sensational evening of world-class music, inspired by the great Swing Read more…
We are excited to announce that the dates for Oxford Festival of the Arts 2023 are 23 June – 16 July. The theme for this year’s festival is People. Stories. Histories. We have a wonderful programme of events planned. We will be welcoming the BBC Big Band with brilliant jazz Read more…
We are thrilled to announce that this morning we went on sale with the very first tickets for OFA 2023 – the brilliant Rosie Holt’s one-woman show, aptly titled ‘The Woman’s Hour’ – it will be in the Marquee on Saturday 1 July at 7.30pm. It is part of a Read more…
This week we were delighted when Michele Greene of the Bicester Sculpture Group presented Helen Pike, Master of Magdalen College School, with a cash donation for the Festival’s chosen charity, the Mustardseed School in Uganda. The sculptors exhibited their work on this year’s festival, in the Rose Garden, and it Read more…
It’s National Poetry Day on Thursday 6 October, and what better day to celebrate than to share with you the three winning poems of the Poetry Writing Competition which we ran for schools with our Partnership team during the summer, following the author session with Tamsin Mori. The theme was Conjure the Read more…
Inspired by Magellan’s visionary expedition, this year’s festival is a celebration of everything around us: our planet, its peoples, its creativity and ingenuity, its aspirations, and its determination to succeed… just like those who boarded that first ship which circumnavigated the world for the first time 500 years ago. Everything Read more…
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the first ship that circumnavigated the world, OFA 2022 will be a celebration of the world in a multitude of ways – and of Oxford’s scientific, literary and creative achievement, too. We welcome distinguished performers ranging from Joseph Calleja and Brian Blessed to Phil Wang Read more…
We are delighted to reveal one of the first events for this year’s Festival – an evening with Fran Lebowitz at the New Theatre Oxford on 27 June 2022. “In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful Read more…
We are delighted to announce this thrilling event for the 2022 Festival, performing at The New Theatre Oxford this summer. Experience the power of heart-pounding rhythms on huge taiko drums, sharp synchronisation and high energy, in a spellbinding performance from Mugenkyo’s tribe of performers from across the globe. Following their Read more…