The Chepstow  Arts and Community Festival is a rich mix of drama, arts, music and community events many of them created by the people of the town and surrounding country districts.  In total the festival boasts over 70 events staged during our three-week programme, with items of ranging from rock to opera, drama to comedy and serious to rather silly!

Take a look and join us in this celebration of our town, our Castle and our Community, many events are free. Click on menu to see full listing for each category.

The Festival Ticket office is at Chepstow Museum Tel 01291 625981 open 11am-5pm Sundays 2pm-5pm

Events Throughout the Festival

Make a Model Town
Make a Model Town, Chepstow Museum invites you to join in 'building' this town, come and create your own ideal home  in miniature. We've laid out the basic landscape, choose your plot and make your own dream home, or maybe make a school or shop, fire or police station, museum or library, add street furniture, flower tubs or even sculpture!. In this community the only limits are your imagination, no prior planning permission required. Craft materials and a variety of templates provided, suitable for all ages  drop in and make at any time Chepstow Museum is open  Mon-Sat 10.30-5.30, Sun 2-5.30, Free. Come back to see how the town is growing or go on adding to it throughout July.

Look what we’ve bought!
The festival exhibition at Chepstow Museum focuses on the special items in the museum’s collection that have been bought with the aid of the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the V&A Museum. The fund is celebrating 125 years of existence this year. Without its significant support many of these things would have been lost to Chepstow. The exhibition includes reference to ‘The ones that got away’.

'Reflections'  an exhibition by Bristol artist Nigel Shipley and sculptor Sophie Howard, Riverside Pottery & Gallery, Cromwell House, Bridge St, 3rd to 23rd July

Festival Prize Quiz - Quiz aficionados look forward to Tim Ryan’s fiendishly devious festival quizes, quiz sheets £1 per entry available from Chepstow Museum and various festival events.

Art on the Railings Open Art Competition  2006 'A Walk Through Chepstow'
all entries must have valid 2006 competition stamp available from 9 June onwards. First prize £1000. There are three categories: Adult (open to all artists); 13-16yrs; 12yrs and under. Handing in of entries on June 30 & July 1. Entry forms from Artists Corner, Beaufort Square tel: 01291 627393, Festival Ticket Office or online www.artistscorner.co.uk Competition sponsored by Art on the Railings, Artists Corner.

Exhibition of Art on the Railings Competition Entries, Sunday 2nd  to Saturday 8th July. Opportunity for visitors to vote for their favourite painting. At  Artists Corner, Beaufort Square.