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
13 May
11:00 am
Great Clarendon Street
University Press and Jericho Bicentenary Walk
13 May
2:00 pm
Great Clarendon Street
University Press and Jericho Bicentenary Walk
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
27 May - 1 Jun
Pembroke Art Gallery
Oxford Inverted
28 - 31 May
7:30 pm
The Chapter House
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
3 Jun
6:00 pm
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
14 Jun
11:00 am
St John's College, Oxford OX1 2JP
The Laudian Vestments
15 Jun
4:00 pm
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Voice: Medieval Women in Song
15 Jun
5:45 pm
16 Jun
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Alice in Wonderland – Silent Film with live improvised organ accompaniment
17 Jun
7:30 pm
Old Fire Station
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell – Mandala Young Company
18 Jun - 23 Jul
11:00 am
Christ Church Picture Gallery
Imagining Wolsey: The Invention of an English Cardinal
19 Jun
3:00 pm
Oxford Botanic Garden
Literary Tour at the Garden
19 Jun
6:30 pm
Westwood Room, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Oxford Trees: Emma Coleman-Jones in conversation with Arabella Warner
20 Jun
1:00 pm
21 Jun - 23 Jul
11:00 am
Christ Church Picture Gallery
Rome – a Cardinal’s Dream
21 Jun
5:45 pm
New College Chapel
Evensong with music by William Mundy
22 Jun
2:00 pm
University Church SMV
Come and Sing Evensong
23 Jun
9:00 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Salomé – Silent film with live improvised Organ accompaniment
24 Jun
11:00 am
Festival Hall
Neill Cameron draws Oxford
25 Jun
6:30 pm
Oxford Town Hall
Preparation and pandemics: confronting new threats
26 Jun - 13 Jul
Westgate Shopping Centre
Bharat Patel: Recurring Dreams of Oxford
26 Jun
5:45 pm
Magdalen College Chapel
Festival Evensong sung by the Choir of Magdalen College, 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
3:00 pm
28 Jun
5:05 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
Solemn Vespers for the 500th Anniversary of Christ Church
28 Jun
7:30 pm
St John the Evangelist Church
The City of Oxford Choir – Haydn’s Nelson Mass
28 Jun
7:30 pm
Festival Hall
Festival Cèilidh with Moonaroon
30 Jun
7:30 pm
1 - 3 Jul
7:00 pm
MCS Junior School Grounds
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1 Jul
7:30 pm
Oxford Town Hall
MAGNIFICAT!
2 Jul
7:30 pm
Oxford Playhouse
Aakash Odedra Company: Songs of the Bulbul
3 Jul
7:30 pm
Festival Hall
COMEDY NIGHT Jericho Comedy and The Oxford Imps
4 Jul
7:00 pm
OVADA
Echoes & Embers
4 Jul
8:00 pm
MCS Junior School Grounds
Madrigals on the River
5 Jul
1:00 pm
OVADA
Echoes & Embers
5 Jul
7:00 pm
OVADA