Arts Festivals 2024 in Yorkshire
Celebrate all the arts in Yorkshire at an arts festival. From makers fairs, to open studios, to awesome fringe festivals.
Bradford 2025 - Year of Culture
Events throughout 2025
From bassline to the Brontës, immersive political theatre to interactive community cookbooks, the Bradford 2025 programme celebrates who we are today - young, diverse, proud of our heritage and focused on the future.
Colliderfest
13th to 16th March 2025
The weekend invites families and young people to enjoy interactive exhibits, creative challenges, and live performances, while evening events feature content for older audiences.Building on a legacy of iconic sci-art events, Colliderfest promises to inspire, educate, and entertain.
York Open Studios
5th & 6th, 12th & 13th April 2025
Artists and Makers will be able to throw open their doors and windows to welcome visitors, and mpossibly run more outdoor events. Discover art in the artists studios.
Saltaire Arts Trail
24th to 26th May 2025
Explore the Open Village to see contemporary artworks in unique spaces across Saltaire. Plus the ever popular Makers Fair in the Victoria Hall.
Open Up Sheffield
3rd & 4th, 10th & 11th May 2025
A fantastic opportunity to visit artists and makers at their studios in and around Sheffield
Open Up festival takes place over the following five days, but please check individual artist profile pages as not all artists open for the full two weekends
Big Ideas By The Sea
16th to 30th May 2025
Big Ideas by the Sea is a new cultural festival that will bring to Scarborough some of the best speakers locally and from across the UK to talk about the big issues related to the environment, climate change and history.
Swaledale Festival
24th May to 7th June 2025
Swaledale Festival’s Artistic Director Malcolm Creese has spent the last few months putting together a fabulous programme for our 2023 Festival. A tantalising myriad of voices, instruments and artists that will come to our hills and dales.
North Yorkshire Open Studios
7th, 8th, 14th and 15th June 2025
North Yorkshire Open Studios is an annual event enabling artists and makers to open their studios, meet, promote and sell their work direct to the public over the first two weekends in June.
Ripon Theatre Festival
1st to 6th July 2025
Four days and five nights of drama, street entertainment, circus, dance, puppetry, storytelling and more. More than 50 lively events and activities for all ages, both indoors and open-air.
Hebden Bridge Open Studios Summer
4th to 6th July 2025
Hebden Bridge stands out as a vibrant, happening little town in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. We are famous for our art scene!
Holmfirth Art Week
6th to 12th July 2025
One of the UK’s Largest Open Art Exhibitions, Featuring over 400 exhibitors and over 2,000 artworks, plus dozens of fringe venues across the local area with thousands more works of art and craft.
Freedom Festival
29th to 31st August 2025
Freedom Festival is an international arts festival where the city is our stage, our aim is to continue to delight, entertain and surprise audiences, as we do justice to the incredible appetite for culture that Hull has.
Staithes Festival
13th to 14th September 2025
Celebrating the rich history of creativity and heritage of the village of Staithes on the coast of North Yorkshire in the North York Moors National Park, Staithes Festival is a cultural highlight of the whole region.
Saltaire Festival
2025 Dates TBC
An annual celebration of music and art in the historic village of Saltaire, Bradford.
Hebden Bridge Open Studios Winter
6th to 7th July 2025
Hebden Bridge stands out as a vibrant, happening little town in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. We are famous for our art scene!