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Home    Welcome The Arts Festival 2009 Tuesday 30 June
Wednesday 1 July
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The Rugby School Arts Festival, which is held in the last week of the Trinity term, is producing a wide range of large-scale events, performance workshops and intimate one-off recitals held in a host of locations across the campus. The three-day programme for 2009, compiled especially for the F, E and LXX, promises an exciting mix of ten concerts; eight theatre productions, including 2 performances of Britten’s "Noye’s Fludde" held in the TSR as part of the Centenary celebrations; a Fashion Show; a Monologue competition; a Modern Languages production of "A Night at the Oscars"; Face-painting, Drama and Videogames workshops and an Art Scholars’ exhibition. The Arts Festival 2009 finale is a "Strictly Come Dancing" competition hosted by the Festival Big Band. Rugby School’s traditional spaces are re-imagined as performance venues: a Classics Play, "The Festival of Dionysus", takes place in the Old Quad, and a LXX piece is performed to a select audience in the TSR Ladies’ Toilets!

All information about Arts Festival 2009 is on the website. F, E and LXX pupils make up the long list of Performers and there is the popular Review Team, where pupils with an interest in journalism have the chance to feed back their views and reviews of events each day of the festival. The workshops are for pupils only. Parents, staff and friends of the School are warmly invited to attend the performance events. In this difficult economic climate we have been encouraged that key businesses in the Rugby area have chosen to be sponsors of the festival this year and we are grateful to them for this support.

Booking information is online, in the TRR and in Houses. To find out what’s on, use the links on this page to search the programme. It is possible to attend a good range of what is on offer as a number of the key events have several showings over the three days. You are invited to chart your own path through this festival. Make sure you book early to avoid disappointment and keep up to date with the Arts Festival 2009 online press office, where details of the latest festival news are published.

Anne Naylor