2025 is here and there is so much in store. Here is a list of five of the most exciting and interesting events coming up this year.
Festival of Archaeology
A weekend-long event at the Salisbury Museum with a showground, talks, and entertainment. It will take place on July 26–27, 2025.
Back with a showground of living history, archaeology, talks, fun and entertainment, another summer weekend at the museum is filled with something for all ages. No need to book.
Live at the Park Music Festival
Salisbury’s biggest outdoor music festival, taking place over two days in Victoria Park.
Following on from the huge success of last year, 2025 is bigger and better. It will be held over two days and bring some of the biggest acts Salisbury has seen. It will take place in September, with the dates and lineup to be confirmed.
Live at the Park Music Festival (Image: Spencer Mulholland)
Salisbury Cathedral Candlelight Concerts
A series of chamber music concerts performed by candlelight in the cathedral’s North Transept. The concerts will take place from January 17 to May 2, 2025.
The concerts will be on four Fridays across the period and will include Winter Words by Candlelight, Purcell by Candlelight, Piano by Candlelight and Wind Quintet by Candlelight.
Entry is £15 and you can book tickets HERE.
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Salisbury International Arts Festival
A two-week event that includes music, dance, circus, spoken word performances, and more. The event will take place on Sunday 25 May – Saturday 7 June 2025.
It is an annual multi-arts festival that delivers over 150 arts events each year in and around the city of Salisbury. Events include concerts, comedy, poetry, dance, exhibitions, outdoor spectacles, and commissioned works.
The festival makes use of the surrounding landscape, hosting events in settings including the ancient circles of Stonehenge, Old Wardour Castle, the Wiltshire Chalk Downs, and Salisbury Cathedral. Every four years a new director is chosen to deliver the annual festival.
In 2018 the festival organisers amalgamated with Salisbury Playhouse and Salisbury Arts Centre to form Wiltshire Creative.
Salisbury International Arts Festival (Image: Ash Mills)
Salisbury Cathedral’s Flower Festival
The Festival, which is being designed by Michael Bowyer MBE, Salisbury Cathedral’s Creative Director of Flowers, and floral designer Debbie Wadge, will take place from 13 – 18 May next year.
The theme of The Spirit of Water will see over 30,000 blooms across an array of arrangements, depicting water in its many settings – from displays representing a world without water and semi-dry locations to a journey along a ‘river of flowers’ and even an ‘ice’ display.
A display depicting the seabed will include hundreds of fish made by local community groups. It will involve volunteers from churches, flower clubs, and students from art colleges.
Salisbury Cathedral Flower Festival (Image: Spencer Mulholland)
The Spirit of Water
A festival that will be a companion piece to the cathedral’s summer art exhibition, Living Water. It will take place between May 13 – May 18.
Just as the art show explores the power of water, its ability to hold memories and shape the identity of a place, as well as our need to live in balance with this life-sustaining force, the Flower Festival takes its inspiration from water in all its different forms – rain, water, ice and more.
Tickets are £17 for an adult and £7 for a child. Booking is recommended and you can get your tickets HERE.