What’s On
We were delighted to announce our programme for Oxford Festival of the Arts 2023 – from our Festival Hub and Marquee base at Magdalen College School Rose Garden, and in our partner venues across Oxford. The theme of this year’s festival is People. Stories. Histories. and it runs from 23 June to 16 July.
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23 Jun - 16 Jul
23 Jun
Modern Art Oxford
Carey Young: Appearance
23 - 27 Jun
University Church SMV
LUXMURALIS: Renaissance
24 Jun
11:00 am
25 Jun
10:30 am
New College Chapel
NIGHTLIGHT: JAMES GEMMILL
27 Jun
4:00 pm
Magdalen Road Studios
MCS Summer Art Exhibition
28 Jun
7:30 pm
Sheldonian Theatre
Sir Willard White with the Brodsky Quartet
29 Jun
Abingdon Abbey Buildings
Secret Byrd: The Gesualdo Six and Fretwork
29 Jun - 1 Jul
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
The Hobbit By J.R.R. Tolkien
29 Jun
7:30 pm
Abingdon Abbey Buildings
Vibrancy of monastic life and sacred polyphony
30 Jun
6:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Festival Evensong with Magdalen College Choir
30 Jun
8:00 pm
Festival Marquee
Dame Harriet Walter in conversation with John Caird
1 Jul
2:00 pm
1 Jul
6:00 pm
Ultimate Picture Palace
The Hunting of the Snark
1 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Marquee
Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour
2 Jul
2:00 pm
2 Jul
2:30 pm
De Jager Auditorium
Ensemble Hesperi A Gift for your Garden
3 Jul
7:30 pm
University Church SMV
SANSARA: Byrd 400: Before the Dawn
3 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Marquee
The Double Act – Under Construction
4 Jul
6:00 pm
Festival Marquee
Charles, Earl Spencer, in conversation with Dinah Rose KC
4 - 6 Jul
7:00 pm
Magdalen College School Grounds
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
4 Jul
7:30 pm
University Church SMV
Hidden Highlights Tour
5 Jul
7:30 pm
Dorchester Abbey
Instruments of Time and Truth
5 Jul
7:30 pm
5 - 9 Jul
8:00 pm
6 Jul
6:00 pm
6 Jul
6:00 pm
6 Jul
8:00 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
SING JOYFULLY
7 Jul
1:00 pm
Weston Library
GIFTS AND BOOKS: Dr Nicholas Perkins
7 Jul
8:00 pm
Magdalen College School Grounds
Madrigals on the River
8 Jul
12:30 am
Ultimate Picture Palace
Hooligan Art Community Film Screenings and Q&A Discussion
8 Jul
11:00 am
Old Library Madgalen College
People and Plague at Magdalen College
8 Jul
4:30 pm
Magdalen College Library
Going to Church in Medieval Oxford with Nicholas Orme
8 Jul
7:30 pm
New Theatre Oxford
Welsh National Opera presents Bernstein’s Candide
9 Jul
11:00 am
9 Jul
1:45 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Organ does Orchestra – A celebration of music with Cathy Lamb
9 Jul
2:30 pm
De Jager Auditorium
Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess
9 Jul
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Salomé – Silent Film with live improvised organ accompaniment by Alexander Pott
10 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Marquee
Cantabile – The London Quartet: An Englishman in New York
10 Jul
8:00 pm
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Joby Burgess: A Percussionist’s Songbook
11 Jul
4:30 pm
Magdalen College School Studio
Adapting Anne(s): women writing and writing women on screen
11 Jul
6:30 pm
The Painted Room
Hamnet: Extraordinary Tudor Lives
11 Jul
8:00 pm
Festival Marquee
Jazz Suite
12 Jul
4:30 pm
University Church SMV
Caravaggio: Tableaux Vivants
12 Jul
7:30 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
SOLA: Music for viola by women composers Rosalind Ventris, with guest Sally Beamish
13 Jul
2:00 pm
The Pavillion
Arts under threat: a debate
13 Jul
7:30 pm
The Pavillion
Joan of Arc – charlatan or miracle-worker?
13 Jul
8:00 pm
Festival Marquee
Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell
14 Jul
6:00 pm
Holywell Music Room
Virtuosi: A Recital in collaboration with the Faculty of Music
14 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Marquee
Sir Anthony Seldon in conversation with Helen Pike
15 Jul
11:00 am
Magdalen College School
‘King of all Balloons’ Pie in the Sky Walk
15 Jul
12:00 pm
New College Oxford
People’s Stories
15 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Marquee
BBC Big Band
16 Jul
11:00 am
Magdalen College School Grounds
STORIES: Festival Family and Community Day
16 Jul
2:30 pm
De Jager Auditorium