Oxford Festival of the Arts

Oxford Festival of the Arts is proud to be the city’s arts festival, curating exhibitions, events and experiences across all art forms. With the festival office geographically situated in OX4 just off Magdalen Bridge, the festival acts like the metaphoric bridge between town and gown, contextualising events through exhibitions and artefacts, discussions, and performance, fostering partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally with cultural partners, schools, and the diverse communities in Oxford, whilst creating unique experiences, and commissioning new work, with public engagement at its core.

We attract nationally and internationally renowned performers and artists, as well as exciting newcomers and wonderful home-grown talent. Through our many cultural partnerships, we are able to make use of the buildings, open spaces, and performance venues that our beautiful city of Oxford has to offer.

Our mission is to offer a broad programme of performances, events, and experiences embracing music; classical, contemporary and new, theatre, visual art, film, dance, comedy, and literature. We celebrate Oxford’s diverse communities and offer something for everyone, whatever their age, background or artistic experience.