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PLAY! Festival 2024

PLAY! Festival 2024

  • Date 01 - 07 Jun 2024
  • Time All day
  • Category Community

PLAY! is a week-long, annual festival of arts presented by the School of Performing & Digital Arts, showcasing some of the best and most innovative music, film, and theatre at Royal Holloway.

PLAY! Festival returns bigger and better than ever, showcasing the very best of music, film, and theatre at one of the UK's highly-ranked arts faculties, with events curated and performed by the staff and students of Royal Holloway. With pop-up recitals, film screenings, cross-arts collaborations, jazz and music theatre gigs, talks and recital-lectures, new music from across the UK, plus the year's largest orchestral event, PLAY! offers a bundle of exciting events for all. 

This year's festival will take place between Saturday, 1 June 2024 to Friday, 7 June 2024, in venues across campus.

What's On

Our FREE festival events are now available to view. To find out what's on, please visit our events page (link embedded). 

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Further information

All of our festival events are free entry for all, however some may require you to book in advance. Please refer to a given event page for full information.

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