What? The Salisbury International Arts Festival was named “one of the top multi-arts festivals in the country’’ along with
Edinburgh and Brighton in The Information Supplement 2005 and
described in 2005 by the Independent on Sunday as “The best festival to attend this summer” along with the Edinburgh Fringe.
Each year the Festival invites artists from around the world to perform over seventeen days & nights in Salisbury and the surrounding area. A small but generally qualitative literary strand.
Who? In 2011, Wendy Cope (pictured), Adam Williams, Mary Leven, Johnathan Fenby, Babete Cole, Brien Moore, Lucy Worsley, Melvyn Bragg, Shirley Williams, Simon Hoggart
When? May 20 - June 4, 2011
Where? Various locations around Salisbury | AA Route Planner | multimap
How much? Various
Festival Website: Salisbury International Arts Festival
What you missed (or maybe didn't) at the last festival/s: James Shapiro, Joad Raymond, John Cooper Clarke, Michael Holding, John Simpson,Helen Dunmore,lexander McCall Smith, Graham Swift, Melvyn Bragg , Charles Foster, Sophie Grigson, Simon Adams, , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Tony Benn, Arthur Smith, Trea Martyn, Matthew Engel , Diana Quick, Alexander Waugh, Stanley Johnson, Nick Page, Robert Kershaw , Graham, A.C. Grayling Farmelo , Andy Briggs, Rosemary Hill Michael Palin, Vikram Seth, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Kate Adie, Louis de Bernieres, Richard Dawkins, Melvyn Bragg![]()
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