is a competition held every March wh professional judges in a friendly atmosphere. We have classes for everybody for t

Due to the ever increasing cost of running the Festival, we are going to have to reinstate Admission Fees. One parent that attends with their child will be issued with a wrist band, everyone else over 18 will have to pay an Admission fee of £2.50 per session. We will again be offering Festival tickets that cover all three disciplines for £25 which can be ordered in advance.

All Entries have now closed

Click here for the Advance dance Schedule 2026

The Music and Speech & Drama schedules will be added when available in the next few days

Because of the very low numbers of entries into the Music section we will only be using Garfield Church this year

We would like to thank the following Councils for their Grants received in the last year or so –

Wootton Bridge Council

Arreton Council

Shanklin Town Council

Newport Parish Council

And also thank you to Shanklin Rotary Club for their donation.

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We are looking for some volunteers to help committee members with a few little jobs to keep the Festival running. It has been very hard since COVID but we are now in our 97th year!!! PLEASE VOLUNTEER

 Dates for the 2026 Festival

Music 6th – 11th March

Dance 14th – 21st March

Speech 14 – 15th March

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We have a vacancy for an Honorary Secretary

The post offers a small honorarium

Duties include:

• Taking the minutes at committee meetings and dealing with correspondence.
• Liaising with Adjudicators and relevant organisations.
• Producing the Syllabus from information provided by the Section Co-ordinators and manage the Play & Perform computer system used for accepting and processing entries.
• Preparing the programme and the paperwork required during the festival.
• For further details please private message us or use the contact form on the website