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CLITHEROE

CONTEMPORARY 2025

Old School Rooms and Assembly Hall, Clitheroe
18th to 20th July 2025

This year’s timetable – plan your festival

Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th

10:00am – 12:00

● FREE: Greame WindleLS Lowrys portraits – The Village Sessions

Register your interest

SATURDAY 19th

10:00am – 17:00pm
Festival Open

10:30am – 12:00

Guided walk, talk and draw – L.S. Lowry visits Clitheroe with Beverley Chapelhow

Limited spaces

Meet Old School Rooms entrance 10:15

Book

10:00am – 15:00pm
Plein Air Competition

Be a living part of the festival – Enter, find a spot in town and spend the day creating.

Enter

10:00 – 11:30pm
Alexandra Gallagher

Become part of the process in creating your own piece of personalised artwork in collages

Book

10:00am – 13:00pm
Primary Engineer

Drop in and get involved

A great chance to learn how to pursue a career in engineering in a fun, knowledgeable and interactive, activity.

Artists in Residence

Steve Rostron, Dr Susan Scurlock and Jemima Spence

12:30pm – 14:00pm
Krissy Dooley

Workshop responding to Music with Art 

A one and a half hour session

Book

11:00am – 16:30pm
STANZA and PIP the poet

Drop in and get involved

Poetry Workshops

14:00pm – 16:30pm
Creation Station

Bring your kids for a drop in collage & drawing session with Joanna Troughton

Drop in and get involved

15:00 – 16:30pm
Andrew Ratcliffe

Life drawing – clothed

A one and half hour session with performance Artist and model Aimee Williamson.

Book

SUNDAY 20th

10:00am – 17:00pm
Festival Open

10:00 – 11:00
Quiet Hour

Lowering the noise in order for those with disabilities to be able to enjoy the festival in comfort.

10:00am-12:00
Vanessa Quinlan

The reimaging of our environment for wellbeing

A relaxing and creative way to start your Sunday.

Book

10:30am – 12:00

Guided walk, talk and draw – L.S. Lowry visits Clitheroe with Beverley Chapelhow

Limited spaces

Meet Old School Rooms entrance 10:15

Book

10:00am – 12:30pm
Creation Station

Drop in and get involved

Bring your kids for a drop in collage & drawing session with Joanna Troughton

Artists in Residence

Steve Rostron, Dr Susan Scurlock and Jemima Spence

11:30am-14:30pm
Kim Judson Stuttard

Ceramic interactive ‘make your own’ Workshop

Book

15:30-16:00pm
Awards presentation

17:00pm
Festival Closes

FOR CHILDREN

Creation Station – 5+

Bring your kids for a drop in and draw session with Joanna Troughton

Primary Engineer – 3 – 19yr

Drop in and get involved

A great chance to learn how to pursue a career in engineering in a fun, knowledgeable and interactive, activity.

PIP the poet – 5+

Saturday 15:30 – 16:30pm 

Drop in and get involved

Poetry Workshop

Open exhibition – 11+

All weekend – FREE to enter for students prior to festival

Postcard competition – 5+

All weekend – FREE to enter for students

Support the festival, enter competitions and win prizes

This year we are bringing more competitions and more ways to get involved. Launching a new membership scheme gives you the opportunity to join us in having your say on future festivals as well as discounted competition entries.

Why not go ALL IN and become a member as well as entering all our competitions.

Help at the festival - get involved

Clitheroe Contemporary Art Festival 2025

Contemporary Art Exhibition

Postcard Competition Judging

Open Art Exhibition and Judging

Lowry tour, talk and draw with Bev Chapelhow

Free Poetry workshop and competition with STANZA

The Wonder of Well-being in Visual Art Workshop

Abstract Fine Art Workshop with Krissy Dooley

Life Drawing with Andrew Radcliffe and model Aimee Williamson

The Artists in Residence Workshops

Children's Drop in Art Sessions with Creation Station

Clitheroe Contemporary winners exhibition

25th July – 31st August

Open Daily 11 – 16.00

Stewards Gallery, Clitheroe Castle Museum

Clitheroe Contemporary Art festival is sponsored and supported by