Stroud Arts Festival

11/05/2026

✨️🎉What a way to kick off our 80th year of celebrations! 🎉✨️
💕Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend!
🎶Thank you to the brilliant Brimstone from Autin Dance Theatre and The Marian Consort for their divine concert! 🎶
🏛🎉Extra thanks to our venues St Laurence: Stroud Centre for Peace and the Arts & The Museum in the Park and we can't wait for The Lost Boys to return to Stroud soon!

🌟We have so much more in store for you so keep your eye out for our Autumn/Winter programme but don't miss our Summer events with the return or our 🎵Opera is for Everyone! Relaxed Performance and the wonderful🎶 Red Sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee in Words and Music
More announcements coming soon!

10/05/2026

📯 Announcement 📯 Sadly, due to cast illness Stroud Arts Festival 80th Celebration: The Monster-Slaying Misadventures of King Arthur has been postponed - we wish them a speedy recovery! ✨️🎫All tickets have been refunded.

To soften the blow, the Stroud Arts Festival Team are offering a free creative drop-in workshop between 10am and 12pm in the Pavilion at The Museum in the Park. We will be running a fun puppet making workshop for all ages. There is something for everyone so join us and get creative! We do hope to see you there!💕

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

🎉🐲Did you catch Brimstone on Stroud High Street? He'll be back at 12.30 and 1.30pm! Come and see us 🐲🎉

05/05/2026

✨️🎫Be part of something special- pick up your tickets today!🎫✨️
🎨🎶This Sunday, we welcome The Marian Consort with Seeing Through Sound 🎶🎨
✨️Renowned for their luminous vocal blend and deeply expressive performances, this extraordinary ensemble invites you to discover the music within art. 🎨Bringing paintings to life through sound—revealing a world where angels sing and stories echo across time. ✨️
📅Sunday 10th May, 7pm
🏛 St Laurence: Stroud Centre for Peace and the Arts
🎫Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GGPX
📯️🎶Take advantage of our Group Booking offer!🎶📯
➡️🎨🎵For Seeing Through Sound we are particularly keen to reach community groups such as art history, music appreciation, or other practising art groups and students for them to experience this concert together. There's a deal to be had on tickets if you want to bring members of your group along!🎵🎨
➡️🎶To grab this offer please email Katy at [email protected]🎶🎨
Stroud Arts Festival 80th Celebration: Seeing Through Sound - The Marian Consort

04/05/2026

🎉📯Pick up your tickets now for this brand-new family-friendly outdoor adventure from The Lost Boys!👑 Don't miss The Monster-Slaying Misadventures of King Arthur - - 🗡swordplay, 🤺silly heroics, and a steward who definitely did not sign up for this😅! Come ready to cheer, gasp, and maybe even help our heroes face the next “terrifying” beast.
📅Sunday 10 May
🏛The Museum in the Park
🕑10am & 12pm
🎫Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GGQA

04/05/2026

🎉This Saturday, 9th May Brimstone the Dragon is flying into Stroud with Autin Dance Theatre!🎉

🌟🕑Come and meet Brimstone at 11.30am, 12.30pm or 1.30pm.

🐲💕Brimstone is a fearsome yet misunderstood beast, brought to life by four highly skilled puppeteers to tell the magical tale of his adventures from a hidden island.🎶 In this interactive promenade performance, Brimstone will roam high, low, around, and through the crowds — on a heartfelt quest to find his long-lost friend.💕🎭

🏛➡️Starting our journey at St Laurence: Stroud Centre for Peace and the Arts, roaming down Stroud High Street and popping into Five Valleys Shopping Centre, Brimstone might even visit the Stroud Farmers' Market so there are plenty of places to come and join us and help us celebrate the opening of our 80th Festival Celebration!🎉✨️🎶

01/05/2026

➡️📣Group booking special offer alert📣⬅️
🎶🎉We can’t wait to welcome the award winning vocal ensemble The Marian Consort with their breathtaking concert, Seeing Through Sound
📅Sunday 10th May, 7pm
🏛St. Laurence Church, Stroud
🎫Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GGPX
✨️🎶Take advantage of our Group Booking offer!🎶✨️
➡️🎨🎵For Seeing Through Sound we are particularly keen to reach community groups such as art history, music appreciation, or other practising art groups and students for them to experience this concert together. There's a deal to be had on tickets if you want to bring members of your group along!🎵🎨
➡️🎶To grab this offer please email Katy at [email protected]🎶🎨

28/01/2026

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16/01/2026

🎉To kick off our 80th celebrations, join us for a very special evening with award-winning scientist Professor Daisy Fancourt, one of the world’s leading voices on arts and health, in conversation with Caroline Sanderson about her new bestselling book
🎨 📖 Art Cure — revealing how the arts can transform our health and wellbeing.
In collaboration with the Stroud Book Festival this is an evening not to be missed!

Saturday 21 March
6.30pm at Lansdown Hall & Gallery
Book now: https://stroudartsfestival.org/event/professor-daisy-fancourt-art-cure/