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

Advent Festival
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 presents 'Day of Special Interest'
A Day of Special Interest includes three lectures and a magnificent lunch, in a large and airy hall
Talk - The Cuban Missile Crisis by Tim Brain
The Club provides an opportunity for retired and semi-retired men to meet for a couple of hours on Fridays for a chat, a coffee, and then to listen to one of the most varied schedules of talks in Cirencester. Coffee is available from 9.45 and meetings start at 10.30 till around 11.45.
Talk - The 2874 Trust
Malcolm is Chairman of the Stroud Society of Model Engineers and owns a beautiful live steam model of a King Arthur class locomotive that he runs on the society's railway in Stroud’s Stratford Park. He has studied the life and work of R. E. L. Maunsell so tonight we will enjoy an evening of Southern stesam.
An evening with Guy Singh-Watson
Guy Singh-Watson is the founder of Riverford Organic Farmers.
Talk - Technological Progress in the NHS
The price of success could have a devastating impact on human health
Corinium Afternoons: Cirencester 6000 years in 40 minutes
A short tour of the long history: join us for a talk about Cirencester’s History from the Neolithic to the 20th century
What Future for our Rural Church
In the challenging lecture Dame Fiona will argue that our precious and unique heritage of church buildings is in danger of being lost.
Talk - The Bathurst Estate: conservation and sustainability
A talk by Peter Clegg. Doors open at 7 pm for 7:30 pm start at Cirencester Baptist Church.
Come and Join us - Walk alongside the people of the Christmas Story
Journeying with Mary, Mary’s Song Luke 1:26-56
Come and Join us - Walk alongside the people of the Christmas Story
Journeying to Jesus. The Shepherds
Luke 2:8 - 20: Matthew 2:1-12
Talk - Wild Men of the North
This talk examines how they stormed the conservative bastions of Canadian art to establish themselves on the international stage of practitioners of distinctive avant-garde.
Talk - The Work of the MOD Detectives - Alexia Clark
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society Talk
Evening Lecture: Wilderlands: The human history of wild Britain
For millennia, humans reshaped Britain. We burned the wildwood and repurposed the land for farming.
Come and Join us - Walk alongside the people of the Christmas Story
Joseph Matthew 1:18-25 Luke 2:4-7
Talk - Cirencester's Alms Houses
A talk by Meg Blumson. Hosted by Cirencester Civic Society.
Stories with Santa
Celebrate Christmas with a visit to the Corinium Museum where the family can meet Santa. Santa will share some special festive stories before handing out gifts to the children
Stories with Santa
Celebrate Christmas with a visit to the Corinium Museum where the family can meet Santa. Santa will share some special festive stories before handing out gifts to the children
Talk - Embroidered with Woodbine and Eglantine: Elizabethan Textile Furnishing
Textiles provided the interiors of Elizabethan aristocratic houses with colour glamour texture and symbolism
Talk - Influences in Photography
Charlie Waite refers to Ansel Adams and other artists and photographers who have inspired him and shaped his landscape photography work
Talk - In Search of Caractacus: Great King of Britain - Dr Miles Russell FSA
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society Talk
Talk - Durer: The Italian & Northern Renaissance - the relationship between Italian art, Durer and the Northern Artists.
The lecture charts the rise of the precocious youth that was Albrecht Durer and will explore his early life and works.
Talk - Principles of Field Archaeology and the Poole Project - Phil Trim
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society talk
Talk - Hiroshige and his influence
An introduction the the art of Utagawa Hiroshige, focusing on his innovative landscapes, use of colour and space.
Talk - 'hen hentes he be healme' The Symbolic Significance of Medieval Armour- Robert W Jones Phd FRHistS
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society talk
Talk - Tolkein and the Cotswolds - the shaping of Middle Earth - Andy Meller
Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society Talk
The Lamorna Artists' Colony 1910 - 1940
Charting the “Newlyn School” artists’ colony loss of its coherence and the shift a few miles along the coast to the dramatic wooded cove at Lamorna, where its students joined leading artists such as Dame Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings and SJ ‘Lamorna’ Birch to establish a more bohemian community.