WW1 commemoration wood carving

This festival takes place every year, running from late June until mid July.

This year’s festival programme is jam-packed with events in June and July.
In June there is a drama production of ‘Treasure Island’ at the Wheatsheaf in Llanhennock on Sunday the 1st, and our Farmers’ Market on The Common on Sunday the 29th.

In July the main festival begins -
Saturday the 5th and Sunday 6th July is the “Literary Weekend” on the lawn of the Priory Hotel with:
•Literature On the Lawn with authors including Beth Reekles, George Peterken and the runner up to the Samuel Johnson Prize - Dave Goulson;
•The All Wales Comic Verse Competition with prizes for poems .

Whilst in the Town Hall there is the acclaimed one man show – ‘A Right Little Houdini’ featuring Daniel Llewellyn-Williams

On the Sunday afternoon the Festival Service in St Cadoc’s Church ensures a great start to the festivities and in the Festival week that follows there are two further events in the Church -
•On Wednesday the 9th – The Morriston Orpheus Choir with soloist Iona Jones - a must
•On Thursday the 10th – Poet Roger McGough CBE wll be in performance, and in person, as part of his ‘As Far as I Know’ tour .

We welcome the Allegra Ladies Choir and Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ to the Amphitheatre on the Friday which then leads on to :-

The Big Free Weekend of music, dance, performance, arts and crafts on The Hanbury Quayside, the Festival Field and over the river at the Bell Inn. There are dozens of performers booked to entertain you all weekend and a special sculpture is being created by local artists.

This year's theme for the sculptures was to commemorate the fallen of World War One and is being carved by a local man to be put on display in Caerleon after the festival finishes tomorrow