Didsbury Arts Festival

Next Didsbury Arts Festival to be in June 2026.

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 As you may have heard already, Didsbury Arts Festival is changing. And we've been speaking to loads of people about it! We spoke to hu...
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Great day out at Didsbury Festival!

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The Didsbury Arts Festival team had a brilliant time at the recent Didsbury Festival in Didsbury Park! We loved meeting people, hearing their vie...
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Record breaking attendance at DAF2023

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Over 10,000 people attended the over 100 events that made up Didsbury Arts Festival in 2023, making it the most popular iteration of the festival so f...
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Didsbury Arts Festival welcomes New Director, Rodney Adams

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Rod has worked for more than 20 years as a Creative Producer, Programmer and Consultant - working across the youth, community and creative sectors - d...
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WATCH AGAIN - DAF's summer of art events 2021

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Available now to watch on-demand, our summer of free performances and a talk by poets, musicians, a painter and a collector. We presented a ...
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Performance by electro sound artist Vicky Clarke - September 1st 7pm free online

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FREE online DAF event: One of Manchester's true innovators, sound and electronic media artist, Vicky Clarke, is an established international perf...
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July 1st - Mike Garry performed for DAF

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Poet Mike Garry performs live online for DAF - this Manchester poet has worked with John Cooper Clarke, New Order and Philip Glass. Mike will be perfo...
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Watch Manchester poet Afshan D’souza-Lodhi's performance for DAF

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Did you miss it? Not a problem as we recorded it - click HERE A rising star in the UK spoken word scene, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collectio...
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Film premiere - portrait painter Clae Eastgate

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Commissioned by DAF in 2021 PREMIERE : available to watch online from May 1, 7pm. Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay were among Clae Eastgate's Paint...
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Be Inspired !

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Enjoy a DAF Summer of free Art, May to September 2021 Celebrate summer with a series of unmissable, monthly arts highlights brought to you – onli...
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Happy Easter to everyone!

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Here are our Big Bake winners in partnership with Co-op and Food Sorcery. Well done to Ave Bond, Emma Leckie Traynor and Mary Rennie. Well done and ou...
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DAF BIG BAKE success - watch the video

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Our thanks to Co-op for supporting this project: About the DAF Big Bake - In early 2021 Didsbury Arts Festival (DAF) delivered the BIG BAKE to celebra...
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Thank you ABa

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As a thriving community arts festival we're enormously grateful to all our local business sponsors past and present.Without your incredibly generous s...
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The Didsbury Big Bake

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Whisks at the ready to grab a slice of the action! To Celebrate Fair Trade fortnight February 22nd – 7th March, local chef Lisa Short from Food S...
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DAF trailer - what we are planning for future festivals

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It is a frustrating time for festivals in 2020 and 2021, but know that we are still working hard and planning with artists our next festival for 2022....
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We are hiring - Festival Manager (p/t freelance)

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Didsbury Arts Festival (DAF) is a biennial contemporary community art festival in Manchester. Festival dates June 25th to July 4th 2021. We require an...
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Enjoy free art online

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During this time of restricted movement why not enjoy some free, high-quality art experiences online. CLICK on the below to watch. DAF will return in ...
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Watch free art online

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During this period of restricted movement due to Covid-19 why not enjoy some free art online. DAF will be back in June 2021 but in the meantime stay h...
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2021 festival

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Our next festival will be in June 2022 and we look forward to bringing you an exciting and creative range of events, exhibitions and perform...
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Past events: Je ne regrette rien!

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While legendary chanteuse, Edith Piaf, is celebrated as one of France's biggest international stars, much of her life is shrouded in mystery. To shed ...
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