The Highbridge Festival of the Arts

Latest News…..

Change of venue for the Music Section ……….

The Music Section will now be taking place at St John’s Church, Highbridge, from Tuesday 18th - Saturday 22nd March 2025. Please see the Music page for more information.

Dates for 2025 are:

Speech & Drama - Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th March at The Princess Theatre, Burnham-on-Sea

Dance - Wednesday 12th - Sunday 16th March at The Princess Theatre, Burnham-on-Sea, TA8 1EH

Music - Tuesday 18th - Saturday 22nd March at St John’s Church, Church Street,  Highbridge, TA9 3HS

You can now view the 2025 syllabus for all 3 sections on the relevant page

New for 2025 in the Speech & Drama Section ….

The Stuart Adams Memorial Trophy for Original Poetry.  This class is open to children of all ages and gives them the opportunity to enter a poem that they have written and would like to share.  The poem can be in any style, written at home or in school and the winner of this class will be presented with the Trophy at the Theatre and receive a special medal. The Trophy has been presented to the Festival by Burnham-on-Sea Rotary Club in memory of member Stuart Adams who regularly composed poems and ditties which he shared at Rotary events.

Thank you ………….

We are very grateful to Hinkley Point C Community Fund for their grant towards our venue costs for our 2024 Festival, which allowed us to keep entry fees and admission costs as low as they were and will help us to continue to host our ‘friendly’ festival in 2025. We would  also like to thank The Rotary Club of Burnham-on-Sea for their generous donation, The Arts Society Sedgemoor (TASS) for their renewed sponsorship for our 2025 Festival  and The Friends of Highbridge Festival  for their contributions, which help us support schools with their travel costs. 

Thank you to Sopha of Highbridge for moving our festival piano and to Holywell Nursing Home in Brent Knoll for fostering the piano until we next need it.  

Dates for 2025 are:

Monday 10th March & Tuesday 11th March 2025

2025 Syllabus now available to view

Entries open Sunday 6th October 2024

Closing date for entries:

Friday 17 January 2025