Harwich Festival 2025
June 19th – June 29th
The Latest News From Harwich Festival
Bonnie Dobson announced
Bonnie Dobson and Friends Ben Crosland on bass and Ben Phillipson on guitar The Harwich Festival is proud to announce a special performance by Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson. Her extraordinary career spans seven decades and shows no signs of…
Impromptu Shakespeare
Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back! With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare play every time – performed by Impromptu Shakespeare’s whip smart cast.Packed with priceless wit, lyrical…
The Foraging Fan Club
Festival Show announcement anyone? The Foraging Fan Club (Comedy) Fri 20th June. 7.30pm @ Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre “Join Helen Wood as she heads into the great outdoors, with her trusty trug, on a quest to become an expert…
Shuff and Byng
Everyone here at Harwich Arts Centre is looking forward to welcoming Team Shuff and Byng to the Arts centre for their next two weeks of R&D (they are with us w/c 28 April and again w/c 16 June). And of…
Scriptwriters Showcase – The Creatives
We are thrilled to show you the creatives behind the Scriptwriters Showcase, which takes place on Sunday 27th April. 2pm at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre…. Don’t forget to book your tickets via:- ‘Too Old For This Sh*t’ reading…
20×20 Call For Artists
Harwich Festival 2025 – 20×20 PLUS Exhibition Dates: Thursday 19th June – Sunday 29th June Venue: The Old Chapel, 30 Kings Head St, Harwich Call for Artists Open to all! Whether you’re a professional, amateur, or under 18, you’re invited…
Community Garden Update
We’re getting ready to kick off our new Recycled Art Community Garden project but we need your help! If you have any gardening tools (listed below) that you can donate then please get in touch via info@harwichfestival.com 
Trowels –…
Other Worlds
Catalina Carvajal is a Colombian artist living and working in the UK. She enjoys sharing the travels of her imagination through various media, from small digital and acrylic paintings to public murals. In her exhibition Other Worlds, Catalina presents characters and scenes that combine folklore with her unique perspective on the world. Inspired by…
‘The Scriptwriters’ Showcase
The Harwich Festival are pitching their exciting, new initiative: ‘The Scriptwriters’ Showcase’. Created for aspiring screenwriters and playwrights, from the Harwich and Tendring Area. The Scriptwriters’ Showcase is a programme of coursework-based workshops designed to equip and enable aspiring writers – at any stage of…
Vote for the Harwich Festival
We are excited to have been nominated in two categories for Rotary Big Community Giveaway Voting for our work in the Community & new Community Art Garden. If you could give us your vote then we’d be really grateful. There’s…
Call for Artists – Deadline
Artists! We want YOU! Take a look and download the details and application form below and let’s help brighten up Dovercourt Town Centre this Summer. Reminder: All applications have to be in by Monday March 17th.
We’ve Won an Award!
We’re excited to announce that we have been awarded a Pride of Tendring Award for our work in the community. We’d like to thank everyone who supports our work, our volunteers, trustees & staff and Cllr. Pam Morrison and the…
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