113^th Wharfedale Festival Performing Arts, May and June 2019

As ever this popular tri-annual event started with verse speaking classes for children and adults held at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. Some of the younger classes were so oversubscribed that they needed to be split for ease of adjudication and adult groups were well represented in verse speaking.

Solo Characterisation was very popular this year and young Alfie Davis, with his rendition of the “Porridge Trauma Incident” by Eleanor McCloud, was the winner in his class. He will go forward as the WFPA representative for speech and drama at the...

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The Results and Awards from the 2019 Speech and Drama Festival of the Wharfedale Festival have now been published and are available by clicking the relevant links below.

Speech and Drama Results

Theatre Time Results

Music Classes Results

Poetry and Writing Results

Awards and Special Awards

The Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that this year's Dance Championship Syllabus has been published and is now available for viewing and download.

This year's venue is once again Guiseley Theatre, The Green, Guiseley, LS20 9BT and runs other the 2nd, 3rd, 9th & 10th of November. Entries must be received no later than 8th September 2019.

The Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that this year's Piano Syllabus has been published and is now available for viewing and download. Please note that this section of the Wharfedale Festival no longer includes Singing as in previous years.

This year's venue is once again the Christchurch Sanctuary on The Grove, in the centre of Ilkley and runs from 15th to 17th October. Entries must be received no later than 16th August 2019. The programme will be available once all entries are received.