We are excited to announce that Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath will be appearing at Cidermill Theatre for us in conversation with the BBC's Nick Owen on Sunday 23rd June 2024 at 6pm. Without Black Sabbath there wouldn’t be heavy metal, they defined an entire genre. Tony Iommi’s detuned guitar style and deep resonating [...]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Julia & Martin Wilson Short Story Prize Broadway Arts Festival launched a short story prize in order to encourage creativity during the lockdown. The prize is generously sponsored and judged by festival Benefactors Julia & Martin Wilson who read every entry received, from across [...]
We are delighted to announce that Tush Sabale has agreed be our guest main prize judge for our 2024 open art competition alongside Malcolm Rogers, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Tushar Sabale is an award winning Indian born, British artist based in London. He mainly paints from life and [...]
Place your bids! Our online Mystery Masterpiece Auction has now started, your chance to snap up original artwork by internationally renowned and emerging artists. The bidding starts at just £25. Maybe you’ll spot a future rising star and get hold of a great investment? Which will see the greatest interest and get the highest [...]
Applications to be a Benefactor of the festival are open! You can become a Bronze Benefactor for as little as £50 to qualify for priority booking for 2024 events. Benefactor donations are essential to secure the future success of the festival and fund our annual outreach programme with local primary and secondary schools and our [...]
Introducing the Prize Winners and Highly Commended finalists for our 2023 open art competition! We had a fantastic response with 476 entries from across the UK and the standard was exceptionally high. Thank you to everyone who entered. We are so grateful to our 7 judges who did a brilliant job. A huge thank [...]
We are delighted to announce that the winner of our Visitor’s Choice prize is Lindy Allfrey for her portrait ‘Karine’. We were so pleased that her model also visited the exhibition on the final day! We had over 1,300 visitors through the doors over the 10 days, so this is praise indeed. A big [...]
We are delighted to announce that our new Artist in Residence for 2023-2025 is Claire Watson. The term is for 2 years, so you will see Claire at our events between now and the next festival where she will run workshops, participate in our schools outreach programme at local primary and secondary schools, help [...]
Immediately after the festival we invited our festival ticket-buyers to take part in our survey to provide us with valuable feedback to help us plan the next year of events and our next festival in 2025. We are constantly striving to improve the festival and deliver an exciting and engaging programme of events. Thank you [...]
Our 2023 open art competition is now open for entries! Prizes include: - Main prize £1000 (any medium) sponsored by Wychavon District Council - Painting in Oils or Acrylics Prize £500 sponsored by Priory Gallery - Watercolour Prize £500 sponsored by John Noott (Founders Prize) - Sculpture/3D Prize £500 sponsored by Jason & Susan [...]
As an Arts charity we would very much appreciate a donation to help us fund our outreach programmes with local schools and Arts bursaries for local university students - thank you
