Rejoice: African music and dance DANCING shoes at the ready, picnics packed and you are ready to celebrate the closing concert of this year's festival in style.
Continent offers feast of cultural diversity AFRICAN culture through music, performance, visual art and film is the artistic focus for this year's festival, culminating in the final peace weekend and the arrival of Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the city.
A river journey with egret Elvis ELVIS is an egret and the star of a beautifully illustrated book published by the Living River project for this year's Salisbury International Arts Festival.Reader comment (1)
Folk, jazz, blues and a little bit of rock 'n' metal thrown in... SALISBURY Live is back for a glorious eighth year. More than 20 venues in and around the city will be hosting free live music on the opening weekend of the festival (Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24), with two special alternative showcase events taking place at the Boat House and the Railway Club.
Bookshops support programme HISTORY, poetry, gardening, biography, culture and peace embrace the diverse subject matter for the festival's literature programme.
Step out and explore the city SALISBURY'S Blue Badge guides have organised their popular festival walks series once again, giving the perfect opportunity to explore the city and its environs in between attending festival events.
Your guide to festival events FRIDAY, MAY 23
Salisbury Live, various venues from 7pm
Laurie Anderson, City Hall, 8pm
Hotel Medea, Arts Centre, 11.50pm