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.
Browse Events by Month
Talk - The Arts Society Corinium - John Singer Sargent
He was high society’s leading portraitist while scandalising Parisians and the Salon with frank depictions of human sexuality
Soviet Maps of Gloucestershire! How and Why?
A talk by Dr Martin Davis, who will provide a general introduction to the Soviet world mapping project - how the maps were created and what was their potential use.
Talk - Corinium Afternoon
Join us for a Corinium Afternoon. Rebecca Shellenberger, the Corinium Museum's Schools and Families Officer,
Talk - Using Computers to Make Healthcare Safer
A talk by Professor Harold Thimbleby of Swansea University.
Talk - The Waterways of Cirencester - Dr Mike Jones
Mike Jones previously had a career as a hydrogeologist
The Arts Society Corinium - Modern British Sculpture
Moore, Hepworth, Caro, Frink and others were leading C20 sculptures and their peers embraced modernism.
Talk - “Missing Link” Alex Thompson
Alex Thomson of Cotswold Archaeology will take us through the latest discoveries on the route of the A417 'missing link'
Talk - Brian Bertram ‘Conservation & Zoos’
Cirencester Ladies Probus - Meetings - First Monday of each month
Talk - Corinium Afternoon
Join us for a Corinium Afternoon. Rebecca Shellenberger, the Corinium Museum's Schools and Families Officer,
Talk - Volcanology
A talk by Professor Hazel Rymer, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Volcanology, The Open University for Cirencester Science & Technology Society. Their website will be found here.
The Living & The Dead - visit to the RAU herbarium
A talk by Dr Kelly Hemmings who will introduce visitors to the Royal Agricultural University’s unique herbarium, now housed in the laboratories where it is being digitally photographed, recorded and catalogued by staff, students and volunteers. Further information will be found on this webpage.
Arts Society Corinium - The English Miniatures: from Tudors to Victorians
From Holbein to the arrivals of photography miniature paintings have been popular in England. Through three centuries we will see a tapestry of English History
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
Talk - Corinium Afternoon
Join us for a Corinium Afternoon. Rebecca Shellenberger, the Corinium Museum's Schools and Families Officer,
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. Further information will be found on this webpage.
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. Andrea is Chair & Lead Member for Land and Property of Cirencester Town Council, with a career background in local authority planning and the private sector, as well as her own consultancy. Further information will be found here. Suggested donation of £3.00 for visitors.
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 - On Apotropaic Marks
Apotropaics: the perception of magic and ritual in the medieval church. Steve Tomlin has spent 10 years investigating Apotropaic marks in the parish churches of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
Talk - Ladies Probus - Ray Hawes ‘Is there such a thing as a perfect tree?’
Meetings - First Monday of each month