Welcome to our Festival site! We hope your visit will be a pleasure which will lead you to the delights of this and other Festivals in the area. The Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002 saw the start of our community Arts Festival, with participation from young and old, professional and ‘amateur’, experienced and those just beginning to explore the arts. Since then there has been a steady enlargement of programme, participation, and interest from many far-flung places.
Our aim is always to bring a variety of high quality artistic performances to Harleston and this year is no exception. To open our tenth anniversary, we are delighted to be able to welcome the East Anglian Film Archive. Amongst other events is a Gardeners’ Question Time, a Harleston Big Draw Day, involving professional artists from ‘The Art Trail’ and an interview with Richard Mabey who is an acclaimed author of naturalist books. For the first time, we are collaborating with the Harleston Rotary Club to promote a Beatles Concert featuring tribute band ‘The Fab 4’. There will be talks and walks, a bit of poetry and much besides – the aim being to ensure there is something for every-one.
Harleston is a great place in a small space – do come and see us!
Visitors since 8th August 2006
The festival culminates on Bank Holiday Monday August 29th in a Family Fun day on
Harleston’s recreation ground.
A very special event this year is a flypast by The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
and an RAF Sea King helicopter. Both of these are dependent on weather and operational
availability. The Festival is grateful to the RAFA for arranging this.
If you would like to get advance notice of our programme, you can sign up to the
mailing list via the comments page; just send us your email or postal address; we
won’t share the information with anyone else without your permission.
With its historic buildings, independent shops and vibrant community, Harleston is
a hidden gem in the South Norfolk countryside, worth a visit any time but especially
at Festival Week
