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Our 2025 Festival will run from 1st - 6th July
Hold onto your hats – RTF 2025 is on its way!
The days are finally getting longer. Winter plans will soon turn into spring preparations and brighter days will see the launch of our sunny summer festival. Watch this space for news of colour, culture and festive fun.
Ripon Theatre Festival is rapidly becoming a key event in the region’s calendar. We are building a reputation for staging a high-quality and friendly programme of performing arts, from street entertainment and open-air theatre to family shows, puppetry, storytelling, dance and comedy.
We’d love you to join us in 2025!
Save the dates for a week of performances popping up all over our glorious city. Many events will be free to attend and there’s always plenty for families.
And there are opportunities to get involved as performers and volunteers too.
Our main festival takes place from 1st – 6th July, but we’ll be out and about in the community before then too with projects and activities to bring everyone together.
Don’t forget to join our mailing list and follow us on all our socials to keep up to date with the latest news.
Come along to our spring Launch Event on 20 March to hear everything we have planned!
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About Us
RTF is run by a small team of volunteers. We work together with our funders, venues and community partners to bring colour and culture to all the communities of the city, contributing to Ripon’s development as a vibrant place to live, work and visit.
RTF is the primary project of longstanding local charity, The Ripon City Festival Trust (charity number 514981).
Find out more about us here.
Get Involved
The festival welcomes professional performers onto our city streets and venues, but it’s the people of Ripon who will really make the festival fly!
We rely on volunteers for:
- Event Stewards
- Publicity team members
- Walkabout Marshalls
- Venue & Refreshments staff
- Performers for our Musical Fringe
- Performers for our Community Cabaret
Whether you want to check tickets, look after our visiting performers or sing your heart out on a street corner, please do get in touch.
Support Us
The festival costs over £30,000 to stage. We are very grateful to all those who have supported us in our journey so far, but of course we constantly need to find new sources of funding. As a registered charity, all the funding we raise goes directly towards making the festival happen.
Ways you might like to help us:
- Follow us on social media
- Like and share our posts
- Buy lots of tickets
- Make a donation
- Volunteer your time
- Encourage your company to sponsor us
