18th - 20th July 2025
Old School Rooms and Assembly Hall, Clitheroe
18th to 20th July 2025
Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th
10:00am – 12:00
● FREE: Greame Windle – LS Lowrys portraits – The Village Sessions
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
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
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.
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 – 12:30pm
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
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
What’s on in detail
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.
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CC 2025 Membership
£10.00 -
CC ALL IN Membership and Comps
£30.00 -
Open entry fee
£10.00 -
Plein air fee
£10.00 -
Postcard Competition Entry
£10.00
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
