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The City of London Festival

Following its acclaimed and record-breaking 50th anniversary season, the annual City of London Festival will once again animate the Square Mile in 2013 (23 June - 26 July) with its customary extravaganza of music, dance, art, film, poetry, family and participation events, transforming some of the City’s most iconic venues and outdoor spaces into a wealth of creative activity for everyone to enjoy.

The 2013 Festival offers another entertaining but innovative and thought-provoking programme rooted in three main, interlocking themes: city walls – connecting the City of London with Derry~Londonderry and other historic walled cities from Utrecht to Jerusalem; conflict and resolution; and trees, sustaining the Festival’s artistic responses to the environment. Using these themes as a platform for creative dexterity, the Festival will reflect on significant historical landmark anniversaries, including the 400-year relationship between the City of London and Derry~Londonderry, the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht and the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten – one of Britain’s most important composers.

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Nazneen Nawaz or Jack Hickmott
Kallaway PR
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