Eclectic mix of music from all around the world at Charlton Park near Malmesbury during July.
Children’s workshops, spa and food from all around the world. For further information www.womad.co.uk
Eclectic mix of music from all around the world at Charlton Park near Malmesbury during July.
Children’s workshops, spa and food from all around the world. For further information www.womad.co.uk
The world’s largest military air show and one of the UK’s top outdoor family event.
Few events can rival the intensity, drama and spectacle on offer at the world’s greatest airshow. The Air Tattoo, one of the UK’s premier outdoor events, returns this summer with an extravaganza of entertainment for all the family. Alongside the thrilling flying action, visitors will be treated to non-stop entertainment on the ground – so whether a wide-eyed first timer or a seasoned airshow veteran, the experience is breathtaking.
2022 – 15, 16, 17 July
2023 – 14, 15, 16 July
Further information at www.airtattoo.com
The SVA Site Festival, is an arts festival, which aims to showcase artist-led projects with a month long programme in June of visual arts, performance, music, screenings and artist talks plus two Open Studios weekends. The Site Festival, creates a platform for artists and artist collectives to show new work, initiate new projects and work collaboratively in sites across the Stroud Valleys. This year’s Site Festival focuses on artists and musicians working with moving image. There will be a single screen artists film programme plus experimental music with film events in the Goods Shed. The Site Festival will feature performances, exhibition openings and events taking place on the night in town culminating with the Site Festival after party which will bring independent London based music collectives and bands to SVA to perform into the early hours… Stroud’s Site Festival Open Studios will be 11th & 12th June and 18th & 19th June and will feature over 100 artists in 50 locations across the district.
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Prepare for an evening of memorising entertainment when the wildly popular Gifford’s Circus returns to thrill audiences every year.
Bringing the weird and wonderful, Gifford’s Circus always promises a spectacular show.
A fantastic show featuring live music, jaw-dropping stunts, and amazing animal performances, which is sure to follow the storming success of last year’s tour.
Established in 2000, Giffords Circus is a small circus company that delivers circus / theatre fusion to the villages and market towns of the South West. It combines dance, comedy, horses and live music in a one hour show, located on village greens in a small white tent surrounded by hand-made burgundy and gold showman’s wagons.
Guests also have the chance to visit the company’s Circus Sauce for a delicious three-course meal, which as the UK’s only travelling restaurant, offers a truly unique dining experience.
For information about all dates in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds, see Gifford’s Circus for further information.
The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival during October promises to be a wonderful 10-day celebration of reading, writing and authors this autumn.
Tens of thousands of literary lovers flock to Gloucestershire annually who expect to see literary legends, politicians and celebrity chefs, as well as comedians, and stars of the stage and screen, all set to descend on Cheltenham for the highly anticipated annual event.
Find out more information about this amazing event by visiting cheltenhamfestivals.com
One of the country’s most popular country shows held at Cirencester Park.
The Cotswold Show successfully combines town and country pursuits to create a glorious medley of fun activities and displays.
The Show Chairman was Lord Bathurst, at whose ancestral seat, was founded in 1989 in Cirencester Park, for further information www.cotswoldshow.co.uk
Dating back to Victorian times and steeped in local tradition, a fun day out for all the family with a host of competitions including categories for flowers, photography and cookery. The venue, in the usual place, in stratford park, Stroud with thanks the Stroud district council. www.stroudshow.co.uk
There are few better opportunities for local groups to promote their activities, share their interests, attract new members, sell their produce, or find a ready audience.
Saturday 16th July 2022
The Festival – March 14th 2023 – March 17th 2023
The highlight of the Jump season with an atmosphere that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The Festival™ epitomises and encompasses everything that is great about Jump racing, whilst delivering an unbelievable occasion as the finest horses, jockeys, owners and trainers battle it out for the highest racing honours.
Read more at www.thefestival.co.uk
Local area used in films and TV production
Have you ever wondered about our imposing manor houses, quiet medieval villages, idyllic swathes of countryside – the Cotswolds offers a lot for location scouts in the film business. Here are the most popular filming locations in the Cotswolds, as seen on screens big and small.
Local area used in films and TV production
’Bridgerton’ is the latest hot steamy period drama on Netflix that everyone is talking about. Gloucestershire’s very own Badminton Estate forms part of Clyvedon Castle, the fictional abode of the Duke of Hastings.
‘Poldark’ a BBC drama used Chavenage House and the Cotswolds as a location. Chavenage House, between Nailsworth and Tetbury, is the setting for the Poldark family’s Cornish home which was also used in the recent adaptation of ‘Wolf Hall.’ The success of this historical drama also shone a light on other south Cotswolds’ locations such as Berkeley Castle. Its inner bailey and Great Hall can be spotted in various scenes.
Gloucester’s historic cathedral cloisters were transformed into the corridors of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the films of JK Rowling’s first two books Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The new (2015) adaptation of Laurie Lee’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ was partly filmed in the Slad Valley, alot was filmed in and around Miserden.
Viewers of BBC1’s ‘The Casual Vacancy’ may be able to spot some of the beautiful locations used around the area (Sheepscombe, Bisley, Painswick and Minchinhampton).