What is Lichfield Festival
Lichfield is not short of a festival or two. From Food to Fuse, Cars in the Park and Lichfield Folk Festival, there’s a lot going in our wonderful, vibrant city. However, Lichfield Festival has an identity all of its own…
Lichfield Festival – 2021 Highlights
Many thanks to Ray Mansell for creating this video for Lichfield Festival!
Lichfield Festival Green Journeys Competition
LICHFIELD FESTIVAL wants you to take us on a GREEN JOURNEY in just 300 words – with the chance to win an AMAZING prize! You could travel into the past to see what life was like before cars and planes…
Our 2022 Literature Festival begins…
Ahead of this week’s Literature Festival, budding local journalist, George Anderson, gives us his personal picks: Looking ahead to the upcoming Lichfield Literature Festival, I’m looking forward to Jay Rayner’s My Last Supper… event. The renowned food critic, with a…
Our 40th Anniversary Programme
Pop icon Tony Hadley is to open Lichfield Festival’s 40th anniversary celebrations this summer with a stunning Lichfield Cathedral concert on Thursday 7 July. The singer and Festival patron is one of the incredible headliners at this year’s event (7-17 July)…
LICHFIELD FESTIVAL IS BACK! 2021 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
Eleven days of ballet, cabaret, symphony orchestras, steel pans, family fun, chamber music, live cooking, story-telling, drama, laugh-out-loud comedy can only mean one thing – Lichfield Festival is back! Taking place between 8-18 July, the annual event brings thousands of…
Midlands Choir of the Year Update
We are sorry to announce that we have had to cancel the Final of this year’s Midlands Choir of the Year Competition, originally scheduled for July 11th 2021. Although the Lichfield Festival will be running this year (July 8th – 18th 2021), the roadmap timeline set…
Lichfield Festival Secures Culture Recovery Fund Grant
We’re delighted and incredibly grateful to say that we’ve been awarded a grant from the second round of the Culture Recovery Fund. This grant will allow us to continue to bring high-quality multi-arts experiences to our communities and support more…
Announcing: Lichfield Festival Friends
This month sees a name change of Lichfield Festival’s supporters’ club, previously known as the Lichfield Festival Association, to “Lichfield Festival Friends”. Lichfield Festival began in 1981, and has become the Midland’s leading multi-arts Festival with a reputation for bringing…
TINY STORIES Writing Competition: Winner and Runner-Up
We are VERY EXCITED to reveal the WINNER from our TINY STORIES COMPETITION: Henry Epstein! Henry is a young writer and avid reader who has just turned 12. For his birthday, he received two guinea pigs, Truffle and Parsnip, who…
Top 10 Tips for Tiny Story Writing
With just a few more days to go until the deadline for our TINY STORIES COMPETITION, we thought we’d give those off you still writing – our thinking about starting – some tips! Our fantastic Tiny Stories writer, Kate Romano,…
Our Virtual Summer Events Programme is Live!
HERE WE GO… It’s hot out there today – and it’s about to get even hotter… Our VIRTUAL SUMMER FESTIVAL PROGRAMME is now live! Featuring inspirational classes and workshops, from Indian Dance to Yoga, entertaining events, from conversations with artists…