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
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
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
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.
Talk - Corinium Afternoon
Join us for a Corinium Afternoon. Rebecca Shellenberger, the Corinium Museum's Schools and Families Officer,
Arts and Crafts - Cotswold Churches - Kirsty Hartsiotis
A talk by Kirsty Hartsiotis, part of the Civic Society programme of lectures
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.
Cirencester's Green Spaces
A talk by local Town Councillor, Andrea Pellegram as part of the Civic Society programme of lectures.
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
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.
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.
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.
Talk - Cirencester's Pubs: Past and Present - John Tiffney
We will learn about licences and their contribution to the history of Cirencester.