What’s On in and around Cirencester

  • A busy town square with market stalls, historical buildings, pedestrians, and bunting overhead.

    Markets

    Award winning historic Charter Markets, Arts & Crafts Market, Farmers' Market and Specialty Market.

  • Outdoor music festival with people dancing in front of a stage, band performing on stage, sunny day, trees in the background.

    Phoenix Festival

    24 and 25 August 2025
    A community music and arts festival that offers two days of music, dance and family fun in the Abbey Grounds.

  • People sitting inside a bandstand in a park surrounded by trees.

    Bands in the Park

    Sundays July to September 2025
    Enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of free live music in the Abbey Grounds, Cirencester.

  • People browsing stalls at an outdoor Christmas market, with checked tablecloths and festive decorations.

    Advent Festival

    29 and 30 November 2025
    Christmas in Cirencester is always special and creates a truly memorable family outing in our vibrant, beautiful and historical market town.

Jul
14
to 23 Aug

Friends - The Musical Parody

FRIENDS the musical Parody is a show-stopping, original musical that brings Ross, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, & Rachel back into your life in a whole new way, reminding us why we can’t get enough of their wacky misadventures in 1990’s Manhattan.

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Jul
19

Workshop - Indian Block Printing

Passementerie weaving is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings for furnishings using cords. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will add a modern twist to a heritage craft by creating bracelets using traditional passementerie weaving techniques.

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Jul
19

Workshop - Passementerie Bracelets

Passementerie weaving is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings for furnishings using cords. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will add a modern twist to a heritage craft by creating bracelets using traditional passementerie weaving techniques.

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Jul
20

Film - Slade in Flame

If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned. Watch Slade portray the rise and demise of a rock’n’roll band in this gritty black (country) comedy described as the “Citizen Kane of British Pop movies”

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Jul
20

Film - Mission Impossible

Our lives are the sum of our choices”. Join Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in a race against time to beat an AI enemy, with spectacular action scenes on land, submarine and sky. The final sequence involving high-risk stunts on a biplane is breathtaking.

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Jul
20

Film - The Salt Path

On the cusp of retirement, Ray (Gillian Anderson) and Moth (Jason Isaacs) lose their home, savings and Moth’s good health. Walking The Salt Path, a 630-mile coastal trail from Dorset to Somerset, they discover a new definition of “home”.

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Jul
26
to 27 Jul

Relay for Life Cirencester

Join us for free! Relay For Life brings communities together to fundraise for Cancer Research UK and beat cancer. Teams of friends, families and colleagues fundraise for research to save and improve lives, then unite as a community at an event to honour everyone affected by cancer and celebrate the progress we’ve made.

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Jul
26

Cinema - Mr Burton

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins (Harry Lawtey) lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war, and his own ambitions.

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Jul
27

Film - The Salt Path

On the cusp of retirement, Ray (Gillian Anderson) and Moth (Jason Isaacs) lose their home, savings and Moth’s good health. Walking The Salt Path, a 630-mile coastal trail from Dorset to Somerset, they discover a new definition of “home”.

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Jul
27

Film - Mission Impossible

Our lives are the sum of our choices”. Join Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in a race against time to beat an AI enemy, with spectacular action scenes on land, submarine and sky. The final sequence involving high-risk stunts on a biplane is breathtaking.

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Aug
2
to 3 Aug

Workshop - Wallpaper Printing Masterclass

In this small group class, Justyna will guide you through each of the steps at a gentle pace, ensuring you have all the time and support needed to design and print a beautiful 2 metre in length wallpaper panel. You will create a one-of-a-kind wallpaper while also learning basic block printing and four- way repeat pattern design techniques. 

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Aug
3

Film - Karate Kid Legends

After kung fu prodigy Li Fong relocates to New York City, he attracts unwanted attention from a local karate champion and embarks on a journey to enter the ultimate karate competition with the help of Mr. Han and Daniel LaRusso

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Aug
3

Film - Sinners

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther)

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Workshop - Throwing Plates and Bowls
Aug
6
to 7 Aug

Workshop - Throwing Plates and Bowls

You will start by learn the beginning stages of throwing on the wheel, this will be broken down and taught with multiple demonstrations and one to one guidance to give you a refresher. There will be a focus on hand movements , clay preparation and each stage of the shape will be explored to give a full understanding of how to get from lump of clay to finished plate or bowl.

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Workshop - Pottery: Throwing with Height
Aug
9

Workshop - Pottery: Throwing with Height

This throwing workshop focuses on achieving height in thrown forms and all the necessary steps, techniques and tools needed to achieve this. Through one-to-one teaching and demos, you will learn the processes needed to make taller forms such as jugs, vases, bottles, cylinders and tall pots. You will gain confidence and understanding in the essential steps and tools needed to achieve height and shape in throwing.

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Aug
10

Film - Thunderbolts

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of Marvel antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan.

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Aug
16
to 17 Aug

Workshop - Portraiture: Colour and Form

Working in oils, you will undertake colour theory exercises paired with an investigation into the application and optics of colour as used by artists from history. You will then put these ideas and skills into practise over the 2 days; drawing and painting from a live model.

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Aug
17

Film - Elio

Elio, a space fanatic on a cosmic misadventure, must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate an intergalactic crisis, and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. An imaginative Disney Pixar animation.

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Aug
17

Film - Vermiglio

1944, The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher living in a remote mountain village changes lives. A tale of joy, sadness and unfolding secrets set within spectacular scenery. In Italian with subtitles.

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Sept
1
to 11 Oct

Haywire

  • Beeches Road Cirencester, England, GL7 United Kingdom (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Haywire is a heartwarming and riotously funny new play, commissioned by the Barn and licensed by the BBC, to be performed ahead of the 75th anniversary year of The Archers.

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Sept
6

Workshop - Autumn Colours in Oil Painting

In this workshop Claire will teach you how to capture the striking and subtle beauty of the autumn using oil paints. Claire’s step-by-step guidance will help you explore traditional and contemporary brushwork and colour mixing techniques that bring to life the tones of brown, orange, yellow and red found in an autumnal landscape.

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Sept
20

Sensation Abba

Making their first ever visit to Cirencester !!! Widely considered to be one of the best ever Abba Tribute Acts, they play to packed theatres and festivals throughout Europe.

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Sept
25
to 26 Sept

The Tom Seals Trio

We welcome Tom Seals back to Ingleside after his previous sell out performances. Get ready for a night like other and experience the faster fingers in the business playing hits by Billy Joel, Elton John and many more.

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