Hello

Welcome. It’s great to have you with us. We have a fantastic Festival to share with you, your friends and family.

Along with great shows and events to enjoy, we’ve made some changes to make your Festival experience even better. We’re delighted to launch the Adnams Main Stage which sits alongside the Adnams Spiegeltent to create a festival hub for great art, entertainment and socialising in Festival Gardens, Chapelfield. We also have a new look (with a different colour each year), and a fresh approach to ticketing. For the first time we have set out this brochure by date rather than artform and I hope this increases your enjoyment of exploring and planning your festival adventure.

It takes a team to bring us a festival and I thank all who have made this year’s Festival possible – from our funders, partners, sponsors and donors to our board, staff and volunteers. A special thanks to our programme partners: Britten Sinfonia for classical music, Serious for contemporary music; and National Centre for Writing for the City of Literature Weekend.

We all hope you enjoy the Festival. We’d love to hear about what you’ve seen and what you think, so let us know with #NNF20.

Daniel Brine Artistic Director and Chief Executive