With the wonderful restoration work on the nine muses (originally lead statues, the work of Sir James Thornhill) on the top of Clarendon Building (architect: Nicholas Hawksmoor, a student of Christopher Wren) on Broad Street, it seems a most opportune moment for the festival of the city to celebrate this Read more
It was a pleasure to host a mini version of the Oxford Indie Book Fair at this year’s OFA Family Day, which fitted so aptly with our theme of People Stories Histories. We’re delighted to be supporting OXIB again this month for their fourth annual book fair on Sunday 26th November Read more
This term we’re delighted to be partnering with our friends Oxford Contemporary Music to promote a very special performance by the Attacca Quartet: Redefining the String Quartet, which will be coming to St John’s College on Thursday 30th November at 7.30pm. Tickets are available now. Their playing is exuberant, funky Read more
This year we saw unprecedented numbers attending Oxford Festival of the Arts 2023, with many events selling out. We are delighted to reveal that the main dates for next year’s festival have been confirmed as 27 June – 14 July 2024. Watch this space for other exhibitions to be announced for Read more
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
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