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Truro Festival

2 � 9 April 2016

Truro's cultural festival celebrates the diversity and creativity of the arts within our city. It incorporates; art, music, theatre, film, literature and Cornish culture.

Truro Festival 2016

The city�s annual cultural festival, which is funded and delivered by Totally Truro Business Improvement District (BID) features music, art, exhibitions, theatre, dance, comedy, film, literature and photography.

There will also be an abundance of art at the 2016 festival. Daily workshops featuring local illustrators, comic book illustrators, manga artists, screen print-makers and puppeteers will be on offer for children and adults in the festival hub on Lemon Quay. Street art is also a big favourite and the city's streets will be filled with creative flair once again.

The literary content of the festival also grows each year. For 2016, The Story Republic will be igniting the imagination through speakeasies for young writers, wordsmith sessions and more.

This year sees the launch of a three-year project for Truro Festival focusing on a forgotten Truronian from the 18th century. In his day, Samuel Foote was the first stand-up comedian and known as the funniest man in London. He was a Cornishman with a larger-than-life personality, who wowed audiences at his tea parties in the fashionable coffee houses of Covent Garden. The festival will be producing educational projects and installations re-establishing Foote as a celebrated Cornishman in his hometown.


If you are a business in Truro and would like to get involved in the festival, please email [email protected]


A full event listing is now available online on our new website www.trurofestival.co.uk as well as enjoytruro's.  You will see the events listed in date order to the right.


Please follow the Truro Festival on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with our 'Throwback Thursday's' and 'Foote Fridays'!  Remember to use the hashtag #trurofestival

Saturday 2nd April

Monday 4 April

Wednesday 6 April

Friday 8 April

Sunday 3 April

Tuesday 5 April

Thursday 7 April

Saturday 9 April

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