Spring Festival 2025

Wed 23 April – Sun 27 April

Priority booking opens |  Thursday 6 February

General sale opens | Tuesday 11 February

First names are revealed for our Spring Festival in April. The festival will run from Wednesday 23 until Sunday 27 April. We will be across Cambridge in venues including the University Arms Hotel, the Cambridge Union, the Palmerston Room and the Old Divinity School at St Johns as well as a one off special event in partnership with Newnham College.

Kicking off the festival will be last year’s Booker Prize winner for Orbital, Samantha Harvey. With over 50 events in the full programme, it’s going to be a busy weekend with lots to see and do.

Michael Heseltine | Samantha Harvey | Anthony Horowitz | Diane Abbott | Richard Ayoade | Chloe Dalton | John Crace | Ed Conway | Tony Juniper | George Monbiot | Kit de Waal | Eimear McBride

More names will be announced soon….

Free Children’s Festival

Join us to celebrate a new How to Train Your Dragon series with Cressida Cowell and meet the inimitable comic book creator Jamie Smart who’ll be talking all things bunnies, monkeys, and mayhem…

Here’s just a few of the treats we have in store. Fun for all the family!