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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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

Craftival
Craftival returns for another year to celebrate all things craft with our community of makers, craftspeople and community groups
Cotswold Sculptors Association - The Garden at Miserden
Open Wednesday to Sunday, An amazing range of sculptures.

Cirencester Park Horse Trials
The Cirencester Park Unaffiliated Horse Trials will be held in Cirencester Park in July, by kind permission of The Bathurst Family.

Workshop - Ceramic Rockpool Bowls
In this workshop, Rhi will show you how to make a decorative bowl from a clay slab or coils using a slump mould.
Foodie Night- Non Solo Pasta
Food cooked by Non Solo Pasta at Corinium Ales, The Old Kennels GL7 1UR

Cirencester Male Voice Choir Summer Concert
Award winning women’s choir - Parti Llwchwr with Morriston RFC Male Choir and Cirencester Male Voice Choir.
Concert - An Enchanting Evening of Music
Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble and Cirencester Singers
Litter Pick 2025
Join us for litter picking at Kingshill Estate and Newmills Ward weather permitting

Bands In The Park - Cirencester Band
Part of the Bands In The Park 2025 provisional programme, which is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.

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.

Medieval Cirencester Town Walk
Monks, Merchants and Mud!! From sacred splendours the squalid streets, join a walking tour to experience Medieval Cirencester.
The Jazz Cave - Rob Brian’s Groove Collective
From Dixieland to Funk - a drummer’s point of view

Concert - The King's Men
Tickets available on the door, or in the Parish Forum Monday and Tuesday 10 - 12

Mutant Bizarre Electro-Fixation
Hits of the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Soft Cell, Gary Numan Yazoo

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.
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.

Workshop - Be Bright: All Prima Oils
The workshop aims to uplift you through exploration of heart warming and uplifting colours, whist teaching you a foundation of skills you’ll be able to apply to your own practice.

Workshop - Porcelain Throwing for Improvers
Through demos and one to one teachings you will learn the making process with various porcelain forms. You will be focusing on improving your existing throwing skills and how to think about design considerations particular to the material of porcelain.

2025 Festival of Archaeology at Chedworth Roman Villa
Demonstrations, re-enactments and archaeological activities for the whole family
Big Band Night - In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
An evening of swing, jazz and Latin with The Big Brunch Band & Singers to get you up and dancing
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”

Bands In The Park - Chedworth Silver Band
Part of the Bands In The Park provisional programme. Free entry. The Bands In The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council. Held in Abbey Grounds, Cirencester.
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.
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”.


Project Orpheus - Creative Orpheus Animals Workshops
In this workshop we will use upcycled materials to create trophy-style animals

Roman Cirencester Town Walk
Festival of Archaeology walk - The remains of the ancient Roman town of Corinium lie underneath our feet as you walk round Cirencester.
Josser Summer Events in the Park
Collage - The Cut and Paste Club, Family edition. Hosted by Moon and Made

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.
Guiting Music Festival
10 Days of Live Music, in the beautiful Cotswolds featuring the best of Classical, Jazz and Blues

Arts Society Corinium - Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
Vita was a novelist, poet and garden writer. She create Sissinghurst influenced by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, working with plants, hedges and vistas from 1931 - 1962
Cirencester Civic Society - Fairford History Walk
A walk led by local resident Syd Flatman.
Stratton Probus Club - Kate Peake - Drone Photography
The club meets 2nd and 4th Thursday each month 9.30 for coffee and talk at 10.30
Lunch will follow this talk
Project Orpheus - Children’s Mosaic Workshop: Big Cats
In this workshop children will learn about the Orpheus myth and its importance as they create mosaics inspired by big cats.
Free T'ai Chi
GRCC is running free T’ai Chi sessions funded by the NHS, and lead by Clive Birch

Theatre - Yesterday
A new play to be staged in South Cerney. Written by Louise Aust. The show will be directed by Amelia Calvert.


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.

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.

Workshop - Handbuilt Pottery: Slab Built Lamp Base
In this workshop you will learn how to make a slab built lamp base.

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.
Open Day - Trustees of Cirencester Weavers Company
Short guided tours available between 2pm and 3.30pm
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.


Open Afternoon
Visit one of the oldest allotments in England, tour the plots and talk to the holders.
Film - Lilo and Stitch
A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family. Lilo & Stitch emerges from the crate with charm and cuteness as one of the better live-action remakes of a Disney classic.

Bands In The Park - Malmesbury Concert Band
Part of the Bands In The Park programme for 2025. Free entry. The Bands In The Park programme is supported by Cirencester Community Development Trust in partnership with Cirencester Town Council.
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 - 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.



Roman Cirencester Town Walk
The remains of the ancient Roman town of Corinium lie underneath our feet as we walk around Cirencester.
Actaeon Antlers Workshop
come and learn about the gory myth of Actaeon and Diana and take away some lovely antlers to remind you never to offend the gods.


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
Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 5-9)
Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 9-13)
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
Faux Flower Crown Making Evening with Fizz and Cake Hosted by Moon and Make

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.


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.
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 - 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.
AQIVA Meet Up - Obelisk
Work will include general weeding and tidying. Please bring suitable clothing, stout footwear and gloves + refreshments.

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.

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).

Josser Summer Events in the Park
Tree Spirits, Nature Stories & Yoga with Dig and Delve (Kids 4-11)
Josser Summer Events in the Park
Nature Art & Wild Weaving with Dig & Delve (Kids 4-11)
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
Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 5-9)
Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 9-13)
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
Josser Summer Music Session - An Evening of live music and relaxed food

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
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.

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.

Josser Summer Events in the Park
Tree Spirits, Nature Stories & Yoga with Dig and Delve (Kids 4-11)

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.


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


Phoenix Festival
One of the largest free music festivals in the UK. Further details will be announced in due course.
Badminton Benefice Festival of Music 2025
Recital of wind instruments led by flautist Nicky Russell

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.

Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 5-9)
Josser Summer Events in the Park
School of Larks Summer Circus Skills Workshop (Kids 9-13)
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
Josser Summer Music Session - An Evening of live music and relaxed food

Josser Summer Events in the Park
Foragers Feast (Look. Don’t Pick) with Dig and Delve (kids 4-11)
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.


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.

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.


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

Badminton Benefice Festival of Music 2025
Folk music and flowers with wine and refreshments

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.


Repair Cafe
We can try to mend toys, clothes, small electricals, household items and bikes.

Workshop - Introduction to Modern Calligraphy
Emma from Emerald Paper Design will be giving demonstrations each step of the way, as well as being on hand for individual guidance. You will also receive a goodie bag to take away

Music Live at National Star
Raising money to support young people with complex disabilities.

Clothes Swap
Come along to this fantastic session where you can swap your unwanted clothes for a whole new outfit.

Workshop - Japanese Cross Back Apron
In this full day workshop, Lauren will expertly guide you through the process of creating your very own beautiful Japanese apron.
