Stonehenge
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has released the full 2014 Festival programme for its first year under new festival director Toby Smith. In 2014 the Festival looks north to the Nordic lands of the midnight sun, exploring the tensions between light and dark, city and nature, land and sea in a region of contrasts where […]
The 2014 Salisbury International Arts Festival is looking for 100 male singers – beginners and experienced – to work with composer Lucy Pankhurst and conductor Howard Moody to create a new performance this summer. 100 years ago two armies found themselves on either side of the front line in a war that was meant to be […]
A vintage bus day was held on 5th January to mark the end of over 70 years of Salisbury bus station in Endless Street. It opened in August 1939, but has now been permanently closed with services moving to bus stops around the city. Six special routes ran with 10 vintage vehicles from across the […]
Exhibition at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, 23rd May until 19th September 2014 Curated by Andrew Ginger in collaboration with Salisbury Museum Following sellout shows on Whistler and Constable, Salisbury Museum presents an innovative biographical view of legendary designer, photographer and artist, Sir Cecil Beaton, through his two Wiltshire homes. Simultaneously a retreat, an inspiration […]
Salisbury Cathedral’s spectacular Advent Procession ‘From Darkness to Light’, regarded by many as the un-missable start to the Christmas season, takes place this year on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 November at 7.00pm and Sunday 1 December at 5.00pm. It begins with the Cathedral in total darkness and silence as the single Advent Candle is […]
Salisbury Cathedral Choir has released its latest CD Great Hymns from Salisbury on the Priory label. Recorded in the cathedral in January, it’s a wonderful selection of hymns which have, through the centuries, touched people’s hearts. David Halls, Director of Music, said “This is a selection of some of the finest hymns ever written and the cathedral […]
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has been selected as one of four South West arts organisations to host an outstanding graduate fundraising Fellow with the Arts Fundraising Fellowship Programme. The first of its kind in the UK, the Arts Fundraising Fellowship Programme hopes to create the next generation of leading development directors to reinvigorate the […]
People of all ages can enjoy a series of events in Salisbury from this Saturday (September 21 -29, 2013) to mark national Purple Flag week. The city will soon celebrate its first anniversary of gaining Purple Flag status – an award which recognises excellence in the management of a city’s night time economy and provides […]
Salisbury Cathedral’s original 1215 Magna Carta is to be part of a historic event in 2015 as the four surviving original copies are brought together for the first time in history. The unification plan will mark the 800th anniversary of the issue of the Charter by King John in 1215. The event will be held at […]
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has appointed Toby Smith to be its new director from August 2013. Toby joins from the Royal Northern College of Music and will be engaged in a handover process over the coming months before taking on the role full time in August. Maria Bota completes her term as Festival Director […]
