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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Phoenix Festival
Aug
23
to 25 Aug

Phoenix Festival

One of the largest free music festivals in the UK. The event is now three days long and includes the new Phoenix Chilled event on Bank Holiday Monday. 25 August 2025.

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Orpheus Day
Aug
23

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

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Mighty Model Mammoth Workshop
Aug
26

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.

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Sept
1
to 11 Oct

Haywire

  • Beeches Road Cirencester, England, GL7 United Kingdom (map)
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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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Oct
10

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.

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Nov
5

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

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Nov
25

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.

 

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Dec
1
to 4 Jan

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.

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Dec
10

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.

 

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Dec
13

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.

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Film - Vermiglio
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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Film - Elio
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
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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