ARTS & CULTURAL FESTIVALS IN 2026
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Arts & cultural festivals in 2026

Not every festival is about big PA stacks. This collection focuses on arts and cultural festivals for 2026 - theatre, performance, visual arts, literature and city-wide celebrations. Perfect if you'd rather watch a play, explore installations or catch a talk than stand in a field all weekend. Use the filters to find the scenes that match your taste.

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Featured
7-30 Aug

Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh
Featured25,000 cap

Berliner Philharmoniker, LA Philharmonic & Angels in America headline. Edinburgh International Festival of arts, 7-30 Aug 2026.

Music
Tickets

Aerial Festival (Above)

North West
Festival

Cumbria

Avant-garde arts & literature
Tickets
28-31 Aug

Curious Pastimes

Weston-under-Lizard
Festival

Long-running UK high fantasy LARP with four events in 2026, including the flagship Renewal at Weston Park, Shropshire over the Au...

LARP
Tickets
16-22 Feb

JORVIK Viking Festival

York
Festival

Europe's largest Viking festival, running for seven days across York city centre with around 500 reenactors and 50,000 visitors....

Reenactment
Tickets
27-31 Aug

Lorien Trust The Gathering

Spondon, Derby
Festival

The Gathering is the Lorien Trust's flagship annual LARP event, running 27-31 August 2026 at Locko Park, Spondon, Derby. Thousand...

LARP
Tickets
1-8 Aug

National Eisteddfod (Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru)

Cardigan
Festival

Wales's national festival of language and culture moves to north Pembrokeshire for 2026, marking 850 years of the Eisteddfod trad...

Multi-genreWelsh-language music👨‍👩‍👧
Tickets
24-26 Jul

Profound Decisions Empire - Summer Solstice

Cottenham
Festival

Profound Decisions Empire is a long-running UK LARP campaign running four 3-day events per year at Steeplechase LRP Centre near C...

LARP
Tickets
7-12 Sept

SOE Resistance

Bovey Tracey
Festival

SOE Resistance is a high-budget immersive LARP set in WW2, running two consecutive 3-day residential weekends (7-9 and 10-12 Sept...

LARP
Tickets
9-13 Sept

The Brandywine Festival

Telford
Festival

The Brandywine Festival is an immersive Middle-earth inspired LARP (Live Action Role Play) set in a fictional Shire, limited to 1...

LARP
Tickets
4-6 Sept

The Victory Show

Cosby
Festival

A three-day WWII reenactment festival at Foxlands Farm, Cosby, Leicestershire, featuring 150+ re-enactment groups, military vehic...

Reenactment
Tickets
11-13 Sept

We Have Ways Fest

Stowe
Festival

We Have Ways Fest is the UK's leading Second World War history festival, hosted by historians James Holland and Al Murray, featur...

Reenactment
Tickets