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Bath Literature Festival
27 Feb - 8 March 2010
Bath
Literature Festival Website.
An impressive array of literary talent comes to Bath to provide an
absorbing series of lectures,
interviews, readings and after dinner speeches.
Each day has about 6 speakers offering a short talks and signing
copies of their books afterwards. It has now become a welcome opening
to Bath's festival season.
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Bath Comedy Festival
1 - 12 April 2010
Bath
Comedy Festival Website.
This is the second year for the new Bath Comedy
Festival, which brings together some of British comedy's best
talent along with some of home-grown varieties. There will be improv and comedy
nights around Bath, street entertainment and pranks aplenty!
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Bath
Flower Show & Bath Dance Festival
1 - 3 May
2010 Bath
Flower Show Website
Bath Dance Festival
This established show, now in its 23rd
year, is held over the May Bank Holiday weekend in the beautiful
surroundings of the Royal Victoria Park. The inaugural Bath Flower
Show was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the Botanical
Gardens (in 1987), a stone's throw away from the showground, and
well worth a visit for its beauty and peace.
Coincides with the dance fest this year.
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Bath
International Music Festival
26 May
- 6 June 2010
Bath
International Music Festival Website
Started by Sir Yehudi Menuhin in the 1950s
this event continues to be
one of the UK's premier music festivals, attracting
a host of World class names in
jazz and classical
music. The artistic director Joanna
MacGregor, the famed pianist, has
revamped the programme and the way the opening celebrations
run - check out the website for full
details and details of ticket purchase.
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Bath Fringe Festival
28 May
- 13 June 2010
Bath
Fringe Website
Running alongside the main Bath Music
Festival, the Fringe events comprise contemporary art, drama, comedy,
street theatre and music concerts across many Bath venues. Highlights
include the Bedlam Fair - an art weekend on the street!
Check out their website to see the full range of events.
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Royal Bath
& West Show
2 June - 4 June 2010
Bath
& West Show Website
Based a little outside Bath in Shepton Mallet,
The Bath & West Agricultural Show
is where all aspects of farming and rural life can be seen,
from the best of British livestock to the latest business
innovations in farming. The show offers the perfect day out for
the whole family; the best for shopping, food, flowers, crafts,
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Jane Austen Festival
& Bath Festival of Children's Literature
17 - 26 September 2010
Jane
Austen Festival
24 - 3 October 2010
Children's Literature Festival
Now in it's seventh year this
Austen literary festival is anything but stuffy -
loads of Georgian period dressing ups, balls, quill writing shops,
Austen walking tours, talks and theatre productions.
The Bath Children's Literature Festival
coincides with this event so there is something for all ages to
enjoy!
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Bath Mozart Festival
12 - 20 November 2010
Bath Mozart
Festival Website
Various venues across Bath offer one of the most intensive Mozart festivals
in Britain, which attracts some of the best exponents of the
Austrian prodigy's music. Check out the Festival website for a
full program of the events. Go Wolfy!
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