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20 - 24 Apr
Bonn Square
If We Choose to Look. Photography Exhibition
22 Apr
7:00 pm
Holywell Music Room
The Musical Salon
26 Apr
4:00 pm
St. Mary the Virgin Church,
Dowland’s Foundry present Signs and Secrets
28 Apr
2:00 pm
28 Apr
2:00 pm
The Painted Room
Double bill: talk by Lynn Robson and Janet Dickinson
28 Apr
4:00 pm
The Painted Room
Secrets of Shipwrecks – Janet Dickinson
3 May
2:00 pm
The Perch
Binsey Whimsy Walk
10 May
4:00 pm
St Bartholomew's Chapel
…a feather on the breath of God – VOICE
11 - 25 May
11:00 am
Kendrew Barn
Usha dapur Kar: Fragments from my Other Life
11 May
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari – Silent Film with live improvised organ accompaniment
16 - 25 May
12:00 pm
St Bartholomew's Chapel
Bartlemas: Oxford’s hidden sanctuary – An exhibition (and talk) by Martin Stott
19 May
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Compline by Candlelight
29 May
9:30 am
The Hub, Kellogg College
Reading the signs: the meanings of medieval and Renaissance objects, symbols, and tokens
31 May
4:00 pm
St Bartholomew's Chapel
May Song in Bartlemas
3 Jun
6:30 pm
New Theatre Oxford
Anna Lapwood
5 - 14 Jun
Kendrew Barn
James Gemmill. An Exhibition.
6 Jun
7:30 pm
Grove Auditorium
Purcell, The Musical
11 Jun
6:00 pm
Modern Art Oxford
Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus a curator-led tour
12 Jun
7:30 pm
University Church SMV
Secrets: A Spider’s Tapestry
13 Jun
12:00 pm
Conduit Room New College
Signs, Symbols . . . & Secrets in the Archives of New College, Oxford
14 Jun
4:00 pm
Stanton St John Church
Lingua ignota: Hildegard’s “unknown” language Part I
20 - 21 Jun
2:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Early Music Weekend
20 Jun
4:00 pm
Grove Auditorium
Double, Double Toil & Trouble Palisander
20 Jun
5:45 pm
New College Chapel
Early Music Festival Evensong
20 Jun
7:30 pm
Grove Auditorium
Dreams Under the Wings of Morpheus Bellot Ensemble
21 Jun
11:30 am
Old Library Madgalen College
John Dowland: songes and ayres in the library Dowland’s Foundry
21 Jun
4:00 pm
Grove Auditorium
Echoes of the Spanish Baroque Lowe Ensemble
21 Jun
6:00 pm
Grove Auditorium
Who was John Dowland? Nicholas Mulroy, tenor Elizabeth Kenny, lute
22 Jun
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Silent Film with live improvised organ accompaniment
24 Jun
7:30 pm
Oxford Town Hall
THE OXFORD PROM! London Symphony Chorus
25 Jun
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Sherlock Holmes and the Napoleon of Crime
25 Jun
7:30 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610
26 Jun - 12 Jul
5:00 pm
Rose Garden
NOTES & FIZZ THE FESTIVAL ROSE GARDEN HUB
26 Jun
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Sherlock Holmes and the Napoleon of Crime
27 Jun
1:00 pm
27 Jun
1:00 pm
27 Jun
2:30 pm
Weston Library
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
27 Jun
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Sherlock Holmes and the Napoleon of Crime
27 Jun
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Sherlock Holmes and the Napoleon of Crime
27 Jun
8:00 pm
Festival Hall
Film Screening: The White Crow (2018)
28 Jun
2:00 pm
The Perch
Binsey Whimsy Walk
28 Jun
4:00 pm
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Lingua ignota: Hildegard’s “unknown” language Part II
29 Jun
7:30 pm
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Grains of … Sound – piano and sand art
29 Jun
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
The Phantom of the Opera – Silent Film with live improvised organ accompaniment
30 Jun - 8 Aug
10:00 am
30 Jun
6:30 pm
Festival Hall
Festival Cèilidh with Moonaroon
1 - 10 Jul
8:00 am
Kendrew Barn
Kids and Art for Ukraine
1 - 10 Jul
1 Jul
7:30 pm
Holywell Music Room
Unsung The Wartime Violin
2 Jul
5:45 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Festival Evensong Magdalen College Choir
2 Jul
7:30 pm
Holywell Music Room
Preludes, Fugues and Fantasies
3 Jul
8:00 pm
Magdalen College School Grounds
Madrigals on the River
4 Jul
2:30 pm
The Painted Room
Unversed…by Beckis Cooper
4 Jul
6:30 pm
The Painted Room
Unversed…by Beckis Cooper
5 Jul
6:00 pm
New College Oxford
Haydn: LE PESCATRICI (THE FISHER GIRLS)
7 Jul
6:00 pm
Festival Hall
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found – Andrew Graham-Dixon
7 Jul
7:30 pm
Holywell Music Room