Welcome to Stevenage Festival!

Message from Ron Walker Chairman, Stevenage Festival.

Stevenage Festival 2025 is now over but you can still see what we did here (click on the Whatson link at the top of this page to visit the page and see the whole programme). The printed programme can also be downloaded here.

What is Stevenage festival?

Stevenage Festival has been taking place since 1994 (click here to view a pdf of the 1994 programme) and provided a showcase for all the exciting talent that we have right here on our doorsteps in the Stevenage area. It has taken place every two years and involved something like two thousand local performers and artists of all descriptions. The core of the Festival has been a series of performances in our very own Gordon Craig Theatre supported by a vibrant fringe of smaller events taking place around the town. Lots of our performances have featured young people taking their first steps in an activity that they love. Who knows, some of them may go on to great things - and you saw them here first. Whether you are into fine art, poetry, photography, theatre, dance, books or music, from classical concerts to Rock in the Park, there's something in the Festival for you. If you'd like to see the sort of thing that we have done in the past then take a look at our history pages.

I would like to thank all the people who have made the Festival possible - all the local groups and individuals who have worked so hard to put on performances and events and the audiences who came to support them; our patrons for their support; Stevenage Arts Guild, which keeps the arts on the agenda all year round; Hertfordshire Music Service; local councillors who have squeezed funds for us out of their locality budgets; the Gordon Craig Theatre and my committee of volunteers who worked tirelessly to make the whole thing happen.

Artistic and cultural activity is vital for wellbeing and for community building. The cultural sector as a whole is now facing major challenges and there is some uncertainty as to whether the Festival can continue in its current form but we remain proud of the part we have played in supporting and enhancing these activities for the people in our town for more than thirty years and hope that the spirit and legacy of the festival will continue in some form - we're working on it.

If you have any questions, or want to provide feedback about events, please feel free to contact us at either of the email addresses at the foot of this page. Your feedback is always appreciated.

The Festival is grateful to the following patrons for their support:

The Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire,
Martha Lytton-Cobbold, Rebecca Kelly,
Councillor Richard Henry and Councillor Simon Speller

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