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Warrington Arts Festival Annual arts festival celebrating our town through arts, culture, people and place | Produced by Culture Warrington. Returning in 2027.
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🍂 Autumn and the darker months are upon us - but we're already dreaming of next summer and have a few ideas up our sleev...
16/10/2026

🍂 Autumn and the darker months are upon us - but we're already dreaming of next summer and have a few ideas up our sleeves for Warrington Art Festival '27!

We've also been doing some eval recently (alas, we can't spend the whole year in fields gazing in awe at amazing performances, but we wish we could! 😅)

As a result, we’re incredibly proud to reveal that WAF '26 welcomed 52,759 visitors - 28% up on 2025. We're delighted our events like CirkVOST's aerial show, Pigments, and mini music fest, Garden Sounds, resonated with so many people 🤩

To celebrate, here are 10 of our favourite images from July's festival. What was your highlight? 🤔

📷 Robert Watson

🌟 This one's just a shout out, a fond farewell and an appreciation post for Lizzy Thomson who is moving on after almost ...
04/09/2026

🌟 This one's just a shout out, a fond farewell and an appreciation post for Lizzy Thomson who is moving on after almost three years with us 🥲

Lizzy became one of our first Young Producers - but her journey with Warrington Arts Festival and Culture Warrington didn't end there.

With more enthusiasm and energy than a Duracell Bunny, she impressed our team so much that she went on to be offered a role as Assistant Producer 👏

That allowed her to play an integral part in planning Warrington Arts Festival, lead on other projects such as Scratch Night and become an inspiring figure for other Young Producers.

The Young Producers scheme was set up to help young people get a foot in the door of creative industries while gaining practical hands-on experience of the skills needed - and in a way Lizzy came to symbolise the potential of that 🙌

It's Lizzy's last day in the office today but she's also working at Warrington Mela on Sunday so say hello if you see her 👋

That's her last project with us (for now) but we're under no doubt that she'll go on to great things! Thank you for everything, Lizzy.

Fun fact: Before becoming a Young Producer, Lizzy's first opportunity for Culture Warrington was dressing as a giant Lego character for an event at Warrington Museum! 😁

📸 Robert Watson

📸 It's World Photography Day - so we're throwing it back to 2025 with this stunning image from Warrington's own Robert W...
19/08/2026

📸 It's World Photography Day - so we're throwing it back to 2025 with this stunning image from Warrington's own Robert Watson. It really is one of our absolute favourites.

Capturing a beautiful but fleeting moment, this graceful alien figure emerging from a UFO and making contact with the crowd below was the otherworldly finale to last year's Warrington Arts Festival 👽😍

They say a picture tells a thousand words - and Robert really does have a way of crystallising a whole experience... and all the surprise and emotion and joy that comes with that. Absolutely incredible.

A family favourite for three years running - should we make it four? 👀It's always a pleasure transforming Queens Gardens...
11/08/2026

A family favourite for three years running - should we make it four? 👀

It's always a pleasure transforming Queens Gardens into a hub of colourful community creativity and eclectic acts for Warrington Arts Festival 🎀🌻☀️

This year, highlights at Family Garden Party included The Way We Live in UK // 看我英該怎麼活 by Hong Kong performing artists Orange, Puika and Jamie, and the return of The Birdcage Stage with new show, Don’t Feed the Explorers!

📸 Robert Watson

HOW HAS IT BEEN ONE WEEK ALREADY?! 🤯We can't believe it's been one week since we officially closed out Warrington Arts F...
01/08/2026

HOW HAS IT BEEN ONE WEEK ALREADY?! 🤯

We can't believe it's been one week since we officially closed out Warrington Arts Festival with the incredible performance of Pigments by Cirk VOST at Bank Park!

Who joined us? 👀

📸: Rob Watson

Wow, what a month 👏🎉We're still recovering and decompressing after eight days of Warrington Arts Festival 🙃But - as well...
30/07/2026

Wow, what a month 👏🎉

We're still recovering and decompressing after eight days of Warrington Arts Festival 🙃

But - as well as the big celebrations that brought the community together - it was little candid moments like these and the sense of connection we had along the way that made it all worthwhile 🙌🥰

So this feels as good an opportunity as any to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped deliver the festival from our volunteers and Young Producers to the key planning team at Culture Warrington, and everyone in between. Do it all again next year?!

📷 Photos by Robert Watson and staff

We're throwing it back to the weekend and our big Warrington Arts Festival finale at Bank Park - an aerial circus specta...
28/07/2026

We're throwing it back to the weekend and our big Warrington Arts Festival finale at Bank Park - an aerial circus spectacular 🧗‍♀️🎪🤸

The weather was against us at times, but what an amazing performance contemporary French company CirkVOST presented to our community a staggering 15 metres in the air on Friday and Saturday 🤩

Moments like that make it all worth it - and did you know our festival represents only the second time 'Pigments' has appeared in the UK? 🙏

🗣️ Did you catch the show? We'd love to know what you thought...

📷 Robert Watson

We can’t believe it’s already been ONE WEEK since the Made By Me Film Festival! 🍿🎬Now in its second year, the festival c...
28/07/2026

We can’t believe it’s already been ONE WEEK since the Made By Me Film Festival! 🍿🎬

Now in its second year, the festival celebrates the creativity and talent of young filmmakers from Warrington and the surrounding areas.

A huge congratulations to all the Young Producers whose work was featured, and to everyone involved in making the event such a success!

Take a look at some of our favourite snaps from the event 🎞️

📸 Image credits: Rob Watson Photography

WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK! 📣Enjoyed Warrington Arts Festival? Whether you stepped beneath Luke Jerram’s MARS installat...
27/07/2026

WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK! 📣

Enjoyed Warrington Arts Festival? Whether you stepped beneath Luke Jerram’s MARS installation, watched Pigments at Bank Park or joined us for another event, we’d love to hear about your experience.

Your feedback will help us to understand what is working well, what we could do better and what difference the festival is making.

🏆 As a thank you, you’ll have the option to enter our prize draw to win a family ticket to the Culture Warrington pantomime in December 2026 / January 2027.

All responses will be anonymised and used by the Culture Warrington team and our independent evaluators, We Are Frilly and Ceade, to help evaluate the festival.

Complete our audience survey here 👉 https://form.typeform.com/to/m6Fra3ea?typeform-source=qrcode-button

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