City ready to showcase four new festivals across 2020 - The Worcester Observer

City ready to showcase four new festivals across 2020

Worcester Editorial 10th Oct, 2019   0

ARTS chiefs have unveiled four brand new festivals to take place in Worcester next year, showcasing national and international creative talent whilst supporting local emerging work.

The first of the four festivals will be Worcester Light Night, taking place across the city centre on January 16 from 5.30pm to 10pm. Light Night will be a free night where the city will be animated using lights via installations and live performances.

Atmosphere, the second new festival will take place on Saturday, April 25. Atmosphere is a festival with a strong focus on the environment and the world we live in.

It’s a festival to learn and question with a mix of discussions, talks and live performances either inspired by the environment or with a clear message about the environmental and natural world.




The third festival, Disrupting the Norm, will take place from July 6 to 11. This will be a free festival with a range of events taking place throughout the week across the city.

The festival will feature a mix of pop-up events and accidental art, making the everyday less ordinary in a fun and playful way for the duration of the festival.


The fourth of the new festivals is Worcester’s International Story Festival which will be held in October. The International Story Festival will be a 10-day city-wide festival dedicated to stories; old stories, new stories, our stories, other people’s stories. Narrative will be at the heart of everything within the Story Festival.

A mix of free to access and ticketed events will make up this festival; using indoor and outdoor unusual spaces across Worcester.

All four festivals are funded through The Arches – Worcester project by the Department of Culture Media and Sport Cultural Development Fund.

Festivals director David Edmunds said: “I am very excited about next year and our four new festivals.

“They have all got very strong and distinctive themes and it’s great to be able to start sharing more information about them and how each one is going to be brought to life.”

Laura Worsfold, Severn Arts chief executive said: “Festivals have a huge impact on cities, as we have seen through City of Culture projects in Liverpool, Hull and now Coventry.

“We aim to celebrate the uniqueness of Worcester through presenting outdoor spectacle, debate, challenge and innovation and to raise the profile of artists, creative professionals and new emerging talent in our city.”

Peter Knott, area director for Arts Council England, said: “This is a transformative time for Worcester, as the Cultural Development fund helps to build on the creativity that’s at the centre of the city’s future development and we are proud to support the city as The Arches – Worcester project gets underway.”

Visit the website at www.thearchesworcester.co.uk/about for more information.

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