Join us for the next Broadway Arts Festival - over 80 events across 10 days including live music, outdoor theatre, creative workshops, demonstrations, competitions, tours & talks! Festival events take place at numerous venues in and around the beautiful village of Broadway in the north Cotswolds. The programme will be announced at the end of [...]
After their sell out performance for us in 2024, The Birmingham Philharmonic will be returning to perform a bespoke programme for the Broadway Arts Festival at Cidermill Theatre in Chipping Campden on the afternoon of Sunday 18th October 2026. A programme of exciting and moving music that is not only appealing to those new to [...]
Broadway Arts Festival is giving the public the chance to snap up original artwork by internationally renowned and emerging artists for as little as £25! Showcasing British painters, illustrators, printmakers and photographers while helping to raise funds for the Broadway Arts Festival, school outreach programmes and local student arts bursaries. Maybe you’ll spot a future [...]
In 2020 we launched a new short story prize in addition to our art competition in order to encourage creativity during the lockdown. The prize was generously sponsored and judged by festival benefactors Julia & Martin Wilson. The competition now takes place every other year, the next one is in 2026. Entries need to be [...]
Do you love the TV series Portrait Artist of the Year? Then this is for you... Running alongside our famous plein air competition, The Great Broadway Paint-Off, we will also have a portrait painting competition taking place inside the Lifford Hall in Broadway. Amateur and professional artists from around the UK will spend the day [...]
Your chance to draw or paint our beautiful Cotswolds village for the day and be in with a chance of winning great prizes along with other artists from across the UK! This is a very popular event that attracts both professional and emerging artists. Judges in 2026 will include our Festival Artist in Residence, Claire [...]
Spend the day creating a fabulous 3ft willow hare sculpture for the garden to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]
Do you love the TV series Portrait Artist of the Year? Then this is for you... New for 2025! Running alongside our famous plein air competition, The Great Broadway Paint-Off, this year we will also have a portrait painting competition taking place inside the main marquee on the village green. Amateur and professional artists from [...]
Spend the afternoon creating a row of up-cycled Liberty of London fabric cottages with Louise Whiteley of Tilly's Cottages. You can choose your own Liberty fabric from a wide selection to make the roof. If you have any sample tester paints that you want (to match to a room for example) you are welcome to [...]
Spend the morning creating two wooden cottages with Louise Whiteley from Tilly's Cottages. You can choose your own paint colours to make Daisy Cottage, and you’ll also make Bobbin Cottage using a vintage wooden bobbin from the 1950’s. No prior crafting experience is required. If you have any sample tester paints that you want (to [...]
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
