Full OFA 2025 Listing
Oxford Festival of the Arts 2025 takes as its theme this year Magnificent Oxford. Please see below for what is coming up next.
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1 - 31 May
Sanders of Oxford
Oxford in Print
1 May - 23 Jul
10:00 am
Museum of Oxford
Our Oxford: 50 Years, 50 Stories
1 May
7:30 pm
St John the Evangelist Church
Paul Lewis, piano
3 - 11 May
Pembroke Art Gallery
What is YOUR Oxford? Photography exhibition
6 May
5:00 pm
Blackfriars Priory Church
Book Launch: Entering Heaven on Earth
8 May
1:00 pm
West Oxford Community Centre
Artists in Wonderland: Pre-Raphaelite Adventures in Oxford
8 - 11 May
3:00 pm
Blackfriars Priory Church
Exhibition: NINE
9 May
4:30 pm
Blackfriars Priory Church
The Art of Jane Dowling
10 May
2:00 pm
Blackfriars Priory Church
Come & Sing
11 May
9:30 am
Blackfriars Priory Church
COMMUNITY MASS & EXHIBITION
14 May
7:30 pm
St John the Evangelist Church
Elisabeth Brauß, piano
16 - 25 May
4:00 pm
Pembroke Art Gallery
JAMES GEMMILL: IN FLUX
17 May
11:00 am
St. Mary the Virgin Church,
Singing and Ringing
18 - 27 May
11:00 am
Summertown
Sherlock in Summertown
18 May
4:00 pm
St. Mary the Virgin Church,
Voice: A life of Love and Joy
18 May
5:45 pm
New College Chapel
Evensong with sermon by John Donne and new anthem by Nico Muhly
18 May
5:45 pm
27 May - 1 Jun
Pembroke Art Gallery
Oxford Inverted
4 Jun
6:00 pm
The Wellcome Collection
AI: Progress, Promise and Perils
7 - 22 Jun
Pembroke Art Gallery
Chantal Meza – Disappearance of Worlds
7 - 14 Jun
12:00 pm
Magdalen Road Studios
Oxford Art Society Young artists exhibition
15 Jun
4:00 pm
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Voice: Medieval Women in Song
19 Jun
3:00 pm
Oxford Botanic Garden
Literary Tour at the Garden
22 Jun
2:00 pm
University Church SMV
Come and Sing Evensong
26 Jun - 13 Jul
Westgate Shopping Centre
Bharat Patel: Recurring Dreams of Oxford
26 - 28 Jun
7:00 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Three Musketeers
27 Jun - 13 Jul
5:00 pm
Rose Garden
The Festival Hub Bar
27 Jun
7:30 pm
Sheldonian Theatre
HAYDN IN OXFORD
28 Jun
7:30 pm
St John the Evangelist Church
The City of Oxford Choir – Haydn’s Nelson Mass
30 Jun - 13 Jul
Festival Hall
Oxford on Easels
1 Jul
7:30 pm
Oxford Town Hall
MAGNIFICAT!
2 Jul
7:30 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Aakash Odedra Company: Songs of the Bulbul
8 Jul
7:30 pm
University Church SMV
An evening with Roderick Williams & ORA Singers
12 Jul
1:00 pm
Grove Auditorium
Linarol Consort and William Purefoy: Gibbons 400
12 Jul
3:00 pm
Grove Auditorium
Bellot Ensemble: Cupid’s Ground Bass
12 Jul
5:00 pm
12 Jul
7:30 pm
Sheldonian Theatre
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Fire and Water
13 Jul
4:00 pm
St Bartholomew's Chapel
Voice: Patterns of Love
13 Jul
7:30 pm
New Theatre Oxford