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Important Dates
2019
16th August 2019 - Closing date for the Piano Festival section of the Wharfedale Festival section.
8th September 2019 - Closing date for entries into The Dance Championship.
15th-17th October 2019 - The Piano Festival will take place in the Christchurch Sanctuary on The Grove.
2nd-3rd, 9th-10th November 2019 - The Wharfedale Festival's Dance Championship including our heat of Miss Dance 2019 to be held in Guiseley Theatre, Guiseley.
113th 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...
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.
Awards and Special Awards
The Special Awards from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Speech & Drama, Music and Theatre Time Classes are now available and are shown below.
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Poetry and Writing Classes are now available and are shown below.
The Awards from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Speech & Drama, Music and Theatre Time Classes are now available and are shown below.
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Music Classes are now available and are shown below.
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Theatre Time section are now available and are shown below.
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Speech and Drama section are now available and are shown below.
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Festival Secretaries
Piano Festival Secretary
Piano Festival Secretary
Mrs Evelyn van Terheyden
11, Oaklands,
Westwood Drive,
Ilkley. LS29 9RE
Telephone: 01943 600470
Mobile: 07951 533653
Piano Festival
Dance Championship
DANCE SECRETARY
Mrs Ivy Wailes
Highfield House
184 Walton Park
Pannal
Harrogate HG3 1RJ
Telephone: 01423 870616
Mobile: 07503150502
Dance Championship
Latest News
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2019 Secretary's Report
113th Wharfedale Festival Performing Arts, May and June 2019 As ever this... -
Speech and Drama 2019 - Results and Awards
The Results and Awards from the 2019 Speech and Drama Festival of the... -
Special Awards 2019
The Special Awards from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts... -
Poetry Results 2019
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Poetry and... -
Speech and Drama Awards 2019
The Awards from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Speech &... -
Music Results 2019
The results from this year's Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Music...
Duke of York Community Award
The Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts has been awarded the Duke of York Community Initiative Award for our work with Special Educational Needs children/young people.
