The popular idiom and song lyric from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical “Carousel” used to describe the explosive, joyful, and bustling arrival of early summer, the landscape is rapidly coming alive with blooming flowers, warm weather, and restless energy fuels a desire to get out and do something.

Well there is plenty to do in Highworth over the coming month with the Jazz Festival on the 6th June, closely followed by a whole week of exciting events during the Highworth Arts & Literature Festival which runs from the 13th to the 21st June.


Look out for the HALF leaflets around Town to get the low down on the schedule for the week or check out the HALF page on the VHL website.

You can buy tickets for the workshops and talks via the website or drop into the VHL shop to get your tickets before they sell out.


As part of the programme you can visit two Art Exhibitions for FREE.

13 – 15 June in the Community Room on Gilberts Lane see the work of artist Ann March and Richard Harpin together with the work of Photographer Neil George and selected woodturning by Don Webster.



20 – 21 June you can see the work of 15 local artists in the United Reformed Church on the High Street.

There will be over 60 hanging works on show, all for sale, plus ceramics and many unframed originals and prints.

Come and snap up a locally produced masterpiece.