What’s On in and around Cirencester
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Markets
Award winning historic Charter Markets, Arts & Crafts Market, Farmers' Market and Specialty Market.
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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. -
Bands in the Park
Sundays July to September 2025
Enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of free live music in the Abbey Grounds, Cirencester. -
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.
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Type of Event
Free Tour Monday at Chedworth Roman Villa
Join a free guided tour to find out more about the history and significance of the Villa
Project Orpheus - Brickus Orpheus
Tour the underworld in the Corinium Museum’s trail made using LEGO bricks
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.
The Woodland Fairy Trail
Follow the fairy trail map and see if find all the 10 fairies hidden in the trees.
Orpheus Up Close
Meet Cirencester’s newest arrival - Orpheus, a three-meter-high puppet by renowned artist Russell Kirk, alongside community-crafted puppets from local schools and groups
2025 Festival of Archaeology at Chedworth Roman Villa
Demonstrations, re-enactments and archaeological activities for the whole family
Gloucestershire Vintage & Country Extravaganza
The South West’s largest festival of vintage transport returns…….
Vintage Displays, Live Arena, Vintage Fun Fair and Countryside and Animal Arena
Workshop - Hand-building in Porcelain
This weekend workshop will demonstrate the versatility and uniqueness of porcelain as a hand-building material. You will hone your hand-building skills and learn the techniques required to work effectively with porcelain.
Workshop - Gathered Lampshade
Using a carefully selected range of gorgeous fabrics, and all the materials you need for a professional finish, we will guide you step by step in creating your own gathered shade
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.
Abbey Home Farm Open Day
Join us - whether you are a home gardener, amateur allotmenteer, small holder, permaculture enthusiast, a passionate chef, producer or just love good food
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
Film - Mr Burton (subtitles)
Based on a remarkable true story, discover how the poor son of a miner became one of the greatest actors the world has ever known, with the help of an unlikely mentor.
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”.
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)
Workshop - Medieval Bestiary
Medieval monks used to make beautiful illuminated books called bestiaries, featuring artwork and stories of animals and monsters to educate and entertain their readers.
Georgian Cirencester Town Walk
This year marks the 250th anniversary birth of Jane Austin, the walk shows what life in Cirencester was like during her life time.
Discover the Woodland with Iain
Join Bathurst Estate’s Forest Manager Iain Garett for a family friendly woodland walk and talk.
AQIVA Meet Up - Obelisk
Work will include general weeding and tidying. Please bring suitable clothing, stout footwear and gloves + refreshments.
Exclusive Evening Run 6.5K
Discover woodland running tracks and trails in this 6.5km run, suitable for all abilities.
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.
Workshop - Inner and Outer Landscapes in Watercolour
Respond from your feelings, memories and senses to create personal responses to the theme of landscape, paint the land you love, and let your own inner landscapes take form. Give yourself permission to enjoy the unexpected, to have fun and to delight in the inevitable ‘happy accidents’.
Workshop - Weaving
Come to the museum to learn a little about how weaving has been used for thousands of years.
Distractions: The slow art of stamp collage
Artist Rachel Markwick has been making stamp collages for over 25 years. The slow ethos fits Rachels approach to sustainability, recycling and the need to take time to produce worthwhile products rather than throwaway items
Project Orpheus Mosaic Workshop: Dinosaurs
Travel back in time and get creative with our dinosaur-themed mosaic workshop!
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch
Talk - Corinium Afternoon
Join us for a Corinium Afternoon. Rebecca Shellenberger, the Corinium Museum's Schools and Families Officer,
Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist Alison Grierson-Brookes.
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.
Cirencester Polo Club Family Day
Family day out at Cirencester Park Polo Club for a free day of polo for the Town Cup Finals!
Film - How to train your Dragon
As an ancient threat returns, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together. A critically acclaimed live-action remake.
Bands In The Park 2025 - Metz Big Band
Part of the Bands In The Park programme for 2025. Held in Abbey Grounds Cirencester - free entry. The Bands in The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.
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.
Film - The Phoenician Scheme
A wealthy businessman appoints his daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate; they become the target of scheming tycoons, terrorists and assassins. From director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel).
Project Orpheus - Roman Swords and Shields Workshop
In this workshop you will create a Roman shield and sword so that you feel as ready as a real Roman soldier to venture into the world to do battle.
Roman Cirencester Town Walk
The remains of the ancient Roman town of Corinium lie underneath our feet as we walk around Cirencester.
Workshop - I Dig Cake
Archaeological profiles are key to understanding events in history chronologically
Project Orpheus - Children's Mosaic Workshop
Celebrate 200 years since the discovery of the Orpheus Mosaic at Corinium Museum with a hands-on mosaic-making workshop
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch
Open Air Cinema - The Goonies
Join us for an evening under the stars. Refreshments available from Cattivo Pizza and Corinium Ales
The Ultimate Dog-Lovers Festival - The Big Bark
The must attend festival for dog lovers and their four legged friends
Repair Cafe
We can try to mend toys, clothes, small electricals, household items and bikes.
Workshop - Life is a Flower Day of Oil Painting
During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn the basics of oil paints, of which you’ll be able to utilise over longer periods of time during your own practice.
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.
Workshop - Parade Puppet Making Workshop
A family event, a chance for children and their grown-up to get creative together and create a puppet to take to the Orpheus Day parade
Cirencester Gardening Club Annual Show
Come and see a traditional horticultural show - or enter yourself!
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.
Bands In The Park 2025 - Big Brunch Band.
Free entry to event at Abbey Grounds. The Bands In The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.
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.
Film - F1: The Movie
A Formula One driver (Brad Pitt) comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. Great cinematography and thrills from Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick.
Workshop - Prehistoric Painting
Release your inner artist and explore the natural methods that people have been using for the creation of art for thousands of years
Medieval Cirencester Town Walk
Monks, Merchants and Mud!! From sacred splendours the squalid streets, join a walking tour to experience Medieval Cirencester.
Workshop - Parade Puppet Making
A family event, a chance for children and their grown-up to get creative together and create a puppet to take to the Orpheus Day parade
International Organ Festival
The return of the Organ Festival featuring our own Organist and Choirmaster.
Prehistoric Pottery Workshop
Explore ancient craft techniques by shaping and decorating clay pots inspired by prehistoric designs.
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch
Workshop - Repetition Throwing in Porcelain
Join Qian Liu in this 2 day workshop to improve your throwing skills in porcelain
Orpheus Day
Free - join us for the puppet parade. Bring your puppet and follow our Orpheus puppet around the Abbey Grounds in celebration of 200 years since the Orpheus mosaic was discovered in Cirencester
Phoenix Festival
One of the largest free music festivals in the UK. Further details will be announced in due course.
Mighty Model Mammoth Workshop
Join us at the Corinium Museum for a morning of making your very own colourful model mammoth skeleton. Once you have made it, make a collage background out of colourful card to show where your mammoth might’ve lived.
Tickets: £10-12.50
Please book at: Mighty Model Mammoth Workshop - Corinium Museum
Roman Cirencester Town Walk
The remains of the ancient Roman town of Corinium lie underneath our feet as we walk around Cirencester.
International Organ Festival
The return of the Organ Festival featuring our own Organist and Choirmaster.
Workshop - Let's Make Art
A family event, a chance for children and their grown-up to get creative together.
Project Orpheus Print Workshop: The Myth of Orpheus
Marking 200 years since the discovery of the Orpheus Mosaic at Corinium Museum, children will learn about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as part of the workshop.
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch
Josser Summer Events in the Park
Guest Chef Tara Moreton-Archibald Mexican Feast - Dine with Friends
Workshop - Beginners Machine Sewing
You’ll spend the day learning how to make a variety of projects to take home using a selection of fabrics provided, including a drawstring bag and a zipped pouch.
Foodie Night- Mama’s Family Food
Food cooked by Mama’s Family Food at Corinium Ales, The Old Kennels GL7 1UR
Haywire
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.
AQIVA Meet Up - Obelisk
Work will include general weeding and tidying. Please bring suitable clothing, stout footwear and gloves + refreshments.
International Organ Festival
The return of the Organ Festival featuring our own Organist and Choirmaster.
Workshop - Sew your own Pyjama Bottoms
In this workshop Lauren will teach you the fundamentals of dressmaking. You will learn how to read and understand commercial patterns and how to adapt a pattern to get a perfect fit.
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.
Workshop - Crochet Augurumi
Over the course of the two and a half hour workshop, Lisa will teach you the stitches needed, how to work using a spiral technique, and will share some of her best tips and tricks.
Walk and Talk for Longfield
Choose from a 5k and 10k route starting from hospice grounds
Bands In The Park 2025 - Frampton Silver Band
Part of the Bands In The Park programme. Supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council. Free entry,.
Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist Alison Grierson-Brookes.
Repair Cafe
We can try to mend toys, clothes, small electricals, household items and bikes.
This is The Police
This Is The Police bring back the sheer electric thrill of one of the biggest bands the world has ever seen live in concert.
Bands In The Park - Gloucester Brass
Free entry. The Bands In The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.
Arts and Crafts - Cotswold Churches - Kirsty Hartsiotis
A talk by Kirsty Hartsiotis, part of the Civic Society programme of lectures
Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist Alison Grierson-Brookes.
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.
Litter Pick 2025
Join us for litter picking at Kingshill Estate and Newmills Ward weather permitting
Bands In The Park - Cirencester Band
Free entry. The Bands In The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.
Arts Society Corinium - Arts& scandalous lives of the Bloomsbury group
The three main artists Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry led extraordinary lives within an extraordinary group of intellectuals in the early C20. Multi-faceted relationships were abundant but nevertheless contributed importantly to the visual arts in Britain.
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.
Film - Bridget Jones - Mad about a Boy
In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan.
Foodie Night- Mama’s Family Food
Food cooked by Mama’s Family Food at Corinium Ales, The Old Kennels GL7 1UR
The Royal Opera - Tosca
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art.
Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist Alison Grierson-Brookes.
A Head Full of Coldplay
A Celebration Of The Music Of Coldplay; capturing the energy and sound of one of the biggest bands in the world
Cirencester Mop Fair
The Cirencester Mop Fair maintains the historic charter, held by the Nichols family, that ensures the fairs can be held in the town each year.
AQIVA Meet Up - Obelisk
Work will include general weeding and tidying. Please bring suitable clothing, stout footwear and gloves + refreshments.
Live Music - James Kirby
Award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist James Kirby has built a loyal international fan base in recent years, captivating audiences and selling out venues around the world with his mellow voice and distinctive percussive guitar style.
Repair Cafe
We can try to mend toys, clothes, small electricals, household items and bikes.
Cirencester Mop Fair
The Cirencester Mop Fair maintains the historic charter, held by the Nichols family, that ensures the fairs can be held in the town each year.
Musical - The Last Five Years
Written by Jason Robert Brown, a Tony award winner, this beautifully crafted musical is brought to life with an acclaimed score and interweaved with the butterflies of new love and the sting of a separation.
Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist Alison Grierson-Brookes.
Cirencester's Green Spaces
A talk by local Town Councillor, Andrea Pellegram as part of the Civic Society programme of lectures.
The Metropolitan Opera - La Sonnambula
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found
Arts Society Corinium - The Age of Jazz
Jazz is a fascinating musical blend of rigorous structure, free wheeling creativity, close knit ensembles and imaginative improvisation. This talk ranges from blues, ragtime and the first recordings by Louis Armstrong
Buddy Holly and the Cricketers
All Holly’s hits and other rock ’n’ roll classics are played live on stage by these five amazing actor-musicians. Generations of fans all across the globe have given standing ovations and shouted for ‘more!’
Cirencester History Festival
After its sell-out launch last autumn, Cirencester History Festival, a nine-day celebration of global, national and local history, is set to return for its second year this October half term, from 25 October to 2 November 2025.
Litter Pick 2025
Join us for litter picking at Kingshill Estate and Newmills Ward weather permitting
Cirencester Half Marathon
We are excited to announce the inaugural Cirencester Half Marathon, a closed-road event set for Sunday, November 2, 2025.
The Royal Ballet - La Fille Mal Gardee
65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. This affectionate portrayal of village life combines exuberant good humour and brilliantly inventive choreography in what is undoubtedly Ashton’s love letter to the English countryside
Ed Sheeran Experience
Featuring the ballads, the beats, the ginger hair, the loop pedal magic and now a live band!
The Dazzling Diamonds
The Dazzling Diamonds are returning to Cirencester with their brand-new comedy variety drag show.
Oasis Maybe
Did you miss Oasis' early rough and ready gigs of 94/95? Did you miss the era defining
concerts at Earls Court, Maine Road, Loch Lomond and Knebworth?
Repair Cafe
We can try to mend toys, clothes, small electricals, household items and bikes.
Talk - From Corinium to the Cotswold Tradition - the first 100 years of the Old Museum
A talk by Caroline Morris, Collections and Education Manager at the Corinium Museum.
Elvis
Get ready for an electrifying night of rock ‘n’ roll as Fisher Stevens brings the unforgettable music of Elvis Presley to life in a spectacular live concert experience.
Neil Diamond - Solid Gold Diamond
With over 50 years since his first chart-topping hit, Neil Diamond remains one of the world’s greatest performers and best-selling music legends of all time. Sing along to timeless classics like Sweet Caroline, Love On The Rocks and more!
The Royal Ballet - Cinderella
This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family and will transport you into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.
Talk - Palmyra - Bride of the Desert
Palmyra was on the silk trading route through the desert and thereby becoming one of the richest and most powerful cities.
A Christmas Carol
A Barn Theatre revival of a Dickens Classic, this enchanting musical production set to an original score will leave you and the whole family feeling full of Christmas spirit and serves as a wonderful reminder of what this time of year is truly all about.
Litter Pick 2025
Join us for litter picking at Kingshill Estate and Newmills Ward weather permitting
The Royal Ballet - The Nutcracker
Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, The Nutcracker is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages.
The Upbeat Beatles
The Upbeat Beatles are second to none - powerhouse vocals, precision harmonies and tight musicianship.
The guys have an easy, happy rapport with any crowd, giving them a reputation to be envied as the best in the business.
Talk - Cirencester's Pubs: Past and Present - John Tiffney
We will learn about licences and their contribution to the history of Cirencester.
The Ingleside Christmas Show
Join your hosts Heather and Stuart as they celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in this upbeat and heart-warming evening. Eat, drink and be merry as this husband and wife duo fills you with holiday cheer.
A Buble Christmas
Jamie Flanagan is returning to Ingleside to pay tribute to one of the world’s most prolific recording artists; Michael Bublé. This year we celebrate all of the festive sounds of Bublés classic Christmas album.
Santa’s Christmas Party
Following last year’s sell-out performances,
Honalee Media are delighted to present a brand new show this festive season
Santa’s Christmas Party
Following last year’s sell-out performances,
Honalee Media are delighted to present a brand new show this festive season
Festival of Archaeology - Cotswold Archaeology Lecture
Between February 2022 and February 2023, Cotswold Archaeology staff excavated Bronze Age to Post Medieval remains at South Cerney in advance of Thames Water constructing a reedbed and wildlife pond to improve water quality.
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch
Children’s Mosaic Workshop - Birds Mosaic Art
As part of the 200 year celebration of the Orpheus Mosaic, children will learn about the myth of Orpheus