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Harrogate International Festivals, launched in 1966, has grown into one of the region’s leading cultural organisations, working year round to bring the finest in performing arts, music, literature, education and community participation to Harrogate and Yorkshire.
Since 2003, Harrogate International Festivals has attracted audiences in excess of 300,000 and brought over £14 million of spend into the local economy. Each of our festivals and events attract new audiences into the region year on year, providing world-class entertainment and innovative events that put Harrogate on the map as an international centre for arts and culture.
Our year-round programme of festivals and events include:
Summer Festival
We have a tradition spanning over 40 years of bringing the very best in Classical, Jazz and World Music to Yorkshire. We’ve featured exceptional orchestras and artists such as Van Morrison, Lesley Garrett, Nigel Kennedy, Yehudi Menuhin, Clare Teal, BB King and Amy Winehouse. The Summer Festival also features a lecture series, live literature events, outdoor theatre and street arts.
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
The world’s largest literary festival dedicated solely to the dark art of crime writing takes place in Harrogate every July. Fans of the crime fiction join the biggest authors in the genre for a long weekend of events brimming with books and body counts, detectives and deadly deeds! Previous special guests have included Val McDermid, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Coben, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, Kathy Reichs and creator and writer of acclaimed TV series ‘The Wire’ David Simon.
Carnegie Sporting Words Festival
Run in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University, the Carnegie Sporting Words Festival brings together journalists, reporters and sportsmen to celebrate the words of sport. Highlights from past Sporting Words Festivals include live broadcasts from BBC 5live’s Fighting Talk, and the presentation of the Carnegie Sporting Words Festival Outstanding Achievement Award to broadcaster Harry Gration.
Education & Community
Since 2005 over 6,000 young people have participated in our Education and Community programmes. From DJ-ing to dhol drumming, from singing to samba, from rhymes to crime (fiction!), we bring internationally acclaimed artists to engage young people in arts activities of the highest quality.
Fringe Festival
The Fringe Festival runs parallel to the Summer Festival and aims to explore modern ideas in Harrogate’s Victorian spaces and venues. Fringe events include music, literature, visual arts and more and serves as a showcase for the wealth of creative talent in the local community.