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

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

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

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

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,