The GAP Festival 2020 was cancelled....

...but future plans are being discussed. 

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Would you like to get involved?
The GAP Festival is looking to fill two important roles:
Artistic Director and Festival Manager

Two opportunities have arisen to join the team of volunteers running the highly regarded GAP Festival, the main cultural event in the Goring Gap, based in venues throughout Goring and Streatley.  This year’s Festival had to be cancelled, but the previous three in 2014, 2016 and 2018 were resounding successes and we want to make the next one in 2022 a great event too. 

We are looking for an Artistic Director, an influential position to create a diverse programme of events for the next Festival in 2022 and beyond. The suitable candidate will have a good knowledge of a range of creative arts and of artists who will entertain and enlighten a broad audience. 

We are also seeking a Festival Manager, an important job coordinating the overall Festival programme, logistics and timeline. The suitable candidate here will be highly organised with strong project management skills. 
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The successful candidates will have the full support of an experienced team of trustees and volunteers. Please contact Jane Dipple by 31st October at help@thegapfestival.org if you are interested in either of these roles. If you would like a fuller description, click here for the Artistic Director role and here for the Festival Manager role.  We would love to hear from you!

"Onward! The GAP will OPEN again - for sure"

​This is the message of encouragement our patron Gyles Brandreth has sent us in these difficult times.  We concur and will bring the Festival back when we can.

On his website, Gyles has some useful and amusing suggestions to get us through the current situation.  As an alternative to singing “Happy Birthday” twice, he has chosen some lovely poems that take 20 seconds to read or recite while washing our hands.  You will find one of them below.

​There are lots of other fun things on his site.    Go to his BLOG page on www.gylesbrandreth.net 

‘Leisure’ by William Henry Davies (1871-1940)

​What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

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