Good Friday saw the Festival join up with Raphaels (Hampton Ferry) for a fabulous afternoon. Richard Churchley entertained the audience with A Century of Popular Songs – lots of fun audience participation but interesting to learn the history of the songs. A lovely afternoon tea rounded off the afternoon.
Festival Chair, Sue Ablett, presented her talk Bums on Seats: Behind the Scenes of Evesham Festival of Words, to Evesham U3A today at their Monthly Open Meeting. The talk addressed how the Festival started, how it has grown to its present size, how Sue got involved, how we find our speakers, and whether anything ever […]
The first Festival event of the year – a talk by Max Hunt, entitled A.E. Housman and A Herefordshire Lad, proved so popular at Holland House that it sold out very quickly, with a long waiting list. So we are repeating the event on Wednesday 9th September, at 7pm, at Ecgwins Club, 117 High Street, […]
The first two Holland House events of 2026 – AE Housman and a Herefordshire Lad with Max Hunt, and The Most Heroic Failure of Modern Times – Shackleton’s Antarctic with Jeremy Holmes, are both now sold out. We have further events at Holland House later in the year but if you want to be sure […]
Our 2026 Brochure is now in print and unofficial Festival mascot, Patch, wasted no time getting his teeth (literally) into it We will be starting distribution so keep an eye open for copies appearing near you. The Brochure is also available on the home page of our Website. Lots of fabulous events coming up. Book […]
On Saturday 27th June (main Festival weekend) at Ecgwins Club, we will be featuring local poet, Emily Holtom. She will be with us for the whole day, creating bespoke poems for Festival attendees live on a vintage typewriter. All she will need is a word or a memory from you, and your own personal poem […]
Not long to go now until 2026 and our exciting new programme of events for what is our 10 year (would have been the 11th year but for having to cancel everything in 2020 due to Covid). Lots of wonderful events coming up. We look forward to ticket sales early in the New Year. Some […]
What an honour, as Chair of Evesham Festival of Words, to be asked to do the first reading (the Story of Eof and Egwin and the founding of Evesham Abbey) at the Together at Christmas Community Carol Service at All Saints Church on 7th December. Supported by HRH The Princess of Wales and The Royal […]
Evesham Christmas Tree Festival is now set up in All Saints Church and we have a tree display. Not only do we have a tree but we also have our usual Secret Santa book parcels. They are free. Take one and enjoy some Christmas reading. With around 50 trees this year the Church really does […]
If you have already saved the date for Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend in next year’s diaries, then sorry but there is a change of date. It is now Saturday 17th October 2026, not Friday 16th. So it rounds off beautifully our first ever Autumnfest.
