Coming up soon – 7pm Wednesday 6th May – at Evesham Rowing Club, we have an action packed night.  Behind the Scenes at the Movies features Stuart St Paul talking about his amazing career, from specialising in stunts and fight choreography; film director; and now a best selling author of

We were so sorry to hear today of the death of the incredible wildlife photographer, Doug Allen. Doug was with us just last year in a fabulous event at the Rowing Club. A truly inspirational speaker, an amazing photographer, and a very gentle modest man. Perhaps it is some consolation

Good Friday saw the Festival join up with Raphaels (Hampton Ferry) for a fabulous afternoon. Richard Churchley entertained the audience with A Century of Popular Songs – lots of fun audience participation but interesting to learn the history of the songs. A lovely afternoon tea rounded off the afternoon.

Festival Chair, Sue Ablett, presented her talk Bums on Seats: Behind the Scenes of Evesham Festival of Words, to Evesham U3A today at their Monthly Open Meeting.  The talk addressed how the Festival started, how it has grown to its present size, how Sue got involved, how we find our

The first Festival event of the year – a talk by Max Hunt, entitled A.E. Housman and A Herefordshire Lad, proved so popular at Holland House that it sold out very quickly, with a long waiting list. So we are repeating the event on Wednesday 9th September, at 7pm, at

The first two Holland House events of 2026 – AE Housman and a Herefordshire Lad with Max Hunt, and The Most Heroic Failure of Modern Times – Shackleton’s Antarctic with Jeremy Holmes, are both now sold out.  We have further events at Holland House later in the year but if