Festivals - 'Save the Dates'

Life Arts is the leading mind body spirit events company in East Anglia. In April in Woodbridge and again in July at Trinity Park, Ipswich, they bring you the Mind, Body & Spirit Festival. Featuring a range of classes including yoga, Qi Gung, cleansing your aura and sound healing, plus tasters including Indian head massage, fire cupping, reiki healing and reflexology - a festival guaranteed to help you relax and de-stress! 

For more information visit https://www.lifearts.co.uk/life-arts-events/

INK Festival is an annual weekend festival of new short plays, musicals, radio and film taking place at The Cut in Halesworth.

Featuring more than 70 short new plays for stage and radio, selected from the annual submissions, from writers aged 8-80. INK is unique: it produces all the plays that are performed. The Festivak features a selection of new works with topics ranging from environment, treasure, love, loss, sibling rivalry and everything in between.

For more information visit inkfestival.org

Plenty of artisan East Anglian food and drink stalls, world street food, cookery theatre, music, children's entertainment will be taking over the charming market town of Beccles on Saturday 24 May 2025 for the Beccles Food & Drink Festival.

This free to attend event, not only showcases the region's top food & drink providers, this year the Local Flavours mobile cookery theatre, will feature budding chefs and bakers showing off their skills and providing you with culinary inspiration. 

For more information, visit becclesfoodfestival.co.uk or visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/becclesfoodanddrinkfestival

Taking place at Snape Maltings and venues in the town of Aldeburgh, the 2025 festival is back with a 16-day celebration of music and the arts. 

The 2025 festival promises to be a continuation of the classical music and culture pilgrimage that is the Aldeburgh Festival. Every June, the event plays host to new commissions, world premiers and international stars on the stretch of Suffolk Coast which composer Benjamin Britten loved so dearly.

For more information visit brittenpearsarts.org/stories/category/aldeburgh-festival

Celebrating its 5th year, Lowestoft’s free summer solstice celebration will return for 2025. Inspired by Lowestoft’s location as the most Easterly part of the country and therefore the first to receive sunlight, the First Light Festival programme has been curated to celebrate the cycles of the sun with events taking place throughout the weekend from sunrise to sundown.

Championing Lowestoft as a growing creative hub by showcasing and supporting new talent within the local community, alongside a full programme of events and activations to engage and excite – First Light Festival is the UK’s only free beach festival. The full First Light Festival 2025 line-up will be announced in Spring 2025.

For more information, visit firstlightlowestoft.com

Launched in 2013, Felixstowe Book Festival is a celebration of "Books by the Sea". Authors and audiences love the festivals unique and welcoming atmosphere where they can combine a weekend of literature with good quality seafood, walks along the prom and bracing swims in the North Sea.

Author events are followed by book signings, a chance to meet the talent behind the pen. With an eclectic range of genres to choose from, whether you are a fanatic of fiction, a lover of biography or an appreciator of poetry this festival is sure to have something for you to adore.

Tickets go on sale in April 2025, for more information and for highlights from 2024 visit the festivals website felixstowebookfestival.co.uk 

Established in 2008, Maverick Festival is now the UK's leading Americana event showcasing the best roots music from both sides of the Atlantic. Set amongst the restored Victorian barns and out-buildings of Easton Farm Park, nestled deep in the Suffolk countryside, the festival also hosts films, workshops and performances from a range of different artists across six stages, indoors and out.

For more information visit maverickfestival.co.uk

Set within the stunning surroundings of Henham Park, Latitude has been creating unforgettable memories for over 15 years - offering the very best in music, dance, comedy, poetry, theatre, literature, podcasts, family activities and wellness.

This year's line up includes Sting, Fat Boy Slim, Basement Jaxx, Snow Patrol and Comedian Greg Davies.

Tickets for Latitude 2025 are on sale now at latitudefestival.com

The Black Shuck Festival is a unique festival celebrating folklore, imagination, and storytelling in its many forms, based on the strange and terrible wunder that is the Black Dog of Bungay! 

The East Anglian legend of Black Shuck tells of a wild black dog that entered Bungay's St Mary's Church during a violent storm, the animal then reappeared at Blythburgh Church, where the beast was trapped and its claw marks, burned into the surface of the door, can be seen to this day.

From theatre, music and performance, to art, literature, and history, the Black Shuck festival will offer exciting and thrilling activities for all ages and abilities, immersing visitors in the rich folklore of the region, set in the stunning natural environment of Bungay and the Waveney valley.

For more information go to blackshuckfestival.com

FolkEast returns in August 2025 from it's new home on the Sotterley Estate. Promising another brilliantly cosmopolitan line-up, in recent years the festival has hosted a range of vintage performers and some of the best new acts on the block including stellar overseas performers – from England, Scotland, Canada and Australia  and of course East Anglia. 

For more information go to folkeast.co.uk

Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival is a hugely popular food festival taking place in the beautiful setting of Snape Maltings, next to the River Alde and close to the Suffolk coast, where reed-covered marshlands stretch into the distance towards Aldeburgh.

With over 100 food and drink producers from Suffolk, many from just a few miles away, all gathered to sell their produce including raw milk, organic vegetables, sourdough bread, award-winning beer and spirits and delicious streetfood.

This year, the festival promises to deliver a jam-packed weekend of fabulous food adventures, from tastings and demonstrations to masterclasses.

For more information go to aldeburghfoodanddrink.co.uk