Stonehenge
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival launches its full programme for 2015. In his second year as Festival Director, Toby Smith continues a four-year journey tracing the passage of the sun from night to day. Focussing on the glorious Eastern dawn, the arts and culture of the Middle East take centre stage this year. Some of […]
The cathedral city of Salisbury is the only city in Wiltshire. Although Swindon is larger, it’s classed as a town. The beautiful cathedral has the tallest spire in the UK at 404ft/123m. Notably, it contains the best preserved of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta and the oldest surviving mechanical clock in Britain, […]
Saturday, 12 July marks the Grand Opening of Salisbury’s new world-class £2.4 million Wessex Gallery of Archaeology at Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire, by BBC Time Team and Coast presenter Professor Alice Roberts. Join in on an action-packed day of celebrations, special events, amazing displays and demonstrations – free to the public – from 10am to […]
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 […]
In 2014, the Festival will celebrate the Nordic lands of the midnight sun. Details of the full programme can be seen here. The highlights for 2014 are: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with music director Andris Nelsons and violinist Pekka Kuusisto performing Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in Salisbury Cathedral; Much […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 2013 Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival took place from Friday 24th May – Saturday 8th June. The 41st Festival celebrated the vibrant arts of Catalunya, in what Festival Director Maria Bota described as “a vibrant, powerful, feisty and witty Catalan programme.” Human castles were built outside the Cathedral spire in Catalan tradition by the […]
Thousands turned out to meet The Queen in Salisbury. She was last seen publicly in the city 38 years ago. She arrived by Royal Train at Salisbury railway station and then travelled by glass topped Bentley down Fisherton Street and the High Street where she entered the Cathedral Close. The Queen wore a bright pink […]
The 2012 Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival will be held from Friday 25 May – Saturday 9 June. This year’s programme focuses on the themes of the vibrant culture of Brazil, Fire and Celebration and as 2012 marks the Festival’s 40th Year it will also focus on the Queens Diamond Jubilee. Events will take place […]
