About the Holloway Arts Festival
Holloway Arts Festival is produced by Rowan Arts and was established in 2003.
The festival brings national and international performers to North Islington and gives people the chance get involved with arts activities.
Holloway Arts Festival has gone from strength to strength, attracting a wide range of performers and artists and a growing audience year-on-year. For information and photos of previous years' festivals see the Past Festivals page.
Watch a film of Holloway Arts Festival 2010
Thanks to Bekki Coward and Nicola Pomery for filming and to Sarah McEvoy for editing.
Audience comments
"[We're] celebrating the positive aspects of life around Holloway"
Comedy Night at the Holloway Arts Festival 2011
"Brilliant musical standard! Couldn't have been better. Local. Reasonably priced. Good fun!"
Jazzberries' night of gypsy swing
"The most privileged evening I ever had. Two weeks before the opening of a world creation I meat the team. It is surreal!"
A response to Connecting Conversations with Nico Muhly, Craig Lucas, and Bartlett Sher’s English National Opera's Production 'Two Boys'
"Absolutely great! Fantastic event! [it was] fun for the kids, also adults. [A] great way of the community coming together and just having a day to learn new activities, new skills, and great food!"
Sheona Bell from the Mayton Street Festival
"It was wonderful, very interesting and surprisingly enthralling. I came because I thought it sounded weird. I stayed because it was really good!"
Sweltering Since 1938- Ironmonger Row and the Victorian Turkish Baths
