Knighton Festival

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

It's arrived! Details of the exciting programme for the 2026 Festival are available now on our website www.knightonfestival.wales. Tickets will be on sale shortly

01/09/2026

Julie Brominicks will be joining us at the Festival to talk about her new book on Saturday 17th October. Tickets go on sale soon www.knightonfestival.wales

What would a mountain say if it could tell its own story? Published today, Julie Brominicks’ new book, ‘Cader Idris: Let the Mountain Speak’ explores this question. Interweaving her own experiences with what she learns through her research and interviews with visitors to the mountain, she creates a fascinating biography of a place which holds deep significance to communities across Wales https://www.serenbooks.com/book/cader-idris/

05/07/2026

The Radio 4 Book of the Week, starting tomorrow is On Thin Ice by Charlie Walker, an award winning explorer and writer. We are delighted that he will be a speaker at the Knighton Festival on 17th October - put the date in your diary now!

In On Thin Ice, he is in Siberia, the coldest inhabited place on earth where in the long winters temperatures can fall to minus 50 degrees and the rivers are so frozen trucks can drive along them. Your breath can freeze in mid-air.

Facing ridiculously low temperatures, he skis and walks his way from one small isolated town or village meeting both kindness and distrust. Charlie’s voyage has unwittingly coincided with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine leaving him shocked how so many he meets do not question Putin’s motives or the lies told about the Ukrainian people, unsure how or if he is ever going to get home, and realising all his bank cards have stopped working.

His expedition ends, unexpectedly, in a Russia jail.

More details of this year’s programme will follow soon - see www.knightonfestival.wales

27/03/2026

We're currently planning the programme for this year’s Festival which will take place from 16th to 25th October - put the dates in your diary now!

27/02/2026

Knighton Festival is sponsoring a performance by acclaimed harpist Eleri Darkins - Harpist Telynores at the St David's Day Celebration this Sunday The Knighton Community Centre. Should be a good afternoon!

We've donated some money to support this event. Come along and enjoy!😊

22/01/2026

For all those interested in local history, the Knighton Library are hosting a talk on Heists, Hoards and the Crisis of Cultural Security from 1pm on January 31 in the Reynolds Room at The Knighton Community Centre
Free tea and biscuits provided!