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Each December, the Festival of Chichester puts on an exciting evening of jazz and readings to celebrate the Christmas season and to raise much-needed funds to kickstart next summer’s festival. This year, it...

Organisers of the Festival of Chichester are setting the ball rolling for next year with their annual public meeting.In extraordinary times, the festival committee will be switching to Zoom as they start to...

We are looking forward to the 2021 Festival of Chichester, which will run between 12 June and 11 July, and are hoping to be able to return to a lively, eclectic programme of arts events.It was such a...

The Chichester Singers offered We’ll Meet Again to bring the 2020 Virtual Festival of Chichester to a memorable conclusion. The real-life festival was forced off the calendar back in March as lockdown took...

Here’s how to access the festival events in two easy steps:1. Go to our virtual festival page.2. Click on the event you want to attend.There will be a new event available to stream every day from 7pm. (The...

The Festival of Chichester is set to go online this summer with a Virtual Festival to replace live events because of the restrictions imposed by the virus pandemic. The idea came about through some regular...

Chichester Cathedral Chancellor Dan Inman joined the Festival of Chichester committee – for a festival which was forced off the calendar, along with countless other arts, sporting and community events when...

Festival co-ordinator Barry Smith said: “The Festival of Chichester has very quickly achieved a vital place in the cultural life of the city. It hardly seems possible that seven years have elapsed since a...

After an emergency meeting today about the current virus pandemic, the Festival Chairman and Trustees have issued the following statement. It’s been the hardest possible decision, but in some ways the...