The Gap Festival  14 - 17 June 2018

The Gap Festival returns to the villages of Goring & Streatley from 14 - 17 June 2018. We will have four fabulous days, filled with music (of many kinds), words, comedy, literature, visual and performing arts, workshops and much more, in store. 

​Our volunteers are working hard to come up with a spectacular four days of fun and here’s a taster of what we are hoping to bring you.  Events we hope to include are a full opera, a dance with a big band and a Strictly dancer, The Lightyears (how could we have a Festival without them?), and a queen of crime fiction discussing her work.     Gardening will feature because gardening is an art and a celebrity garden designer will give us insight into designing a Chelsea Flower Show garden.  There’ll be an Art Trail with local artists opening their studios and a visual arts exhibition to include textile art for the first time.    We will celebrate The Goring Gap’s influence on many famous authors and artists with a temporary Blue Plaque trail to highlight where they wrote, painted or lived.   Of course there will be music including a very special woodwind concert for children and babies.   Poetry and drama will also feature and local schools will be contributing in a unique way to the Family Day we’re planning for Sunday.   There will be much, much more going on around the villages and on the Gardiner Recreation Ground – more ideas are being investigated and more events will be generated as we go through the year, so watch this space! 

​To sign up as a helper please visit our Get Involved page and click the Volunteer button for more information on what we are looking for and how to get in touch.

Have a look at our Galleries  to get a taste of the 2016 Festival and the fun that's in store.
​And look out for our extrA! events during 2017.

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