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CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL TO CULMINATE YEAR OF ARTISTIC CELEBRATION WITH SPECTACULAR LIGHT EXPERIENCE

Following a year celebrating colour, creativity and the 60th anniversary of John Piper's iconic High Altar Tapestry, Chichester Cathedral will culminate its artistic celebrations this autumn with Illuminating Art, the spectacular new Chichester Cathedral Light Experience by internationally acclaimed artistic collaboration Luxmuralis. Running from 23 to 31 October 2026, the immersive Read more...

New exhibition will celebrate the amazing lives and achievements of female pioneers from Chichester District

A psychoanalyst who fled Nazi Germany, a hockey captain who established the Womens Sport Foundation (now Women in Sport), the coordinator of evacuee arrivals in Selsey during the Second World War, a principal who transformed a teacher-training college and a suffragist who spent time in Holloway Prison are just some of Read more...

Featured events

Sage House Sportive 2026

13 September, 08:00-14:30

Sage House - Tangmere

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Writing Retreat

13 September, 10:00-16:00

Chichester City Arts Centre

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Spotlight On

THE IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE*

How Chichester Created a National Treasure Today, Chichester Festival Theatre seems such a natural part of the city that it is difficult to imagine Chichester without it. Yet little more than 65 years ago, building a major professional theatre in a small cathedral city appeared extraordinarily ambitious and, in all honesty, Read more...

Upcoming events

Sep13
08:00 Sage House Sportive 2026
The popular charity cycle event is back on Sunday 13th September, starting once
Sep13
10:00 Writing Retreat
At a WHQ creative writing retreat, youll spend the day in a room
Sep13
10:00 Explore 800 Years of Civic History at the Chichester City Council House
Chichester City Council will open the historic Council House for Heritage Open Days,
Sep13
13:00 Goodwood House Tour and Tea
Goodwood House combines the glamour of a great English country house with the
Sep13
14:00 Barone Hopper Film Screening & Chapel Heritage Talk - Graylingwell
Join us for a special screening of the Barone Hopper film, offering a
Sep14
15:00 John Piper at Chichester Cathedral
In 1966, Chichester Cathedral unveiled one of Britains most daring post-war art commissions
Sep15
Bag Making - The Camden Bag
2 Day Course - 15th September & 29th September 2026Come and join us
Sep15
09:30 Cast in Stone
This is a Heritage Open Day Walk Stone shapes the character of many
Sep15
10:00 Landschap
Margaret Jones and Jane Brunning are West Sussex-based tapestry weavers whose work explores
Sep15
14:00 Women of the ATA: The Forgotten Pilots of WWII
Talk by Kevin O'Regan, a Chichester-based author, former teacher and working musician. He
Sep15
14:00 Barone Hopper Film Screening & Chapel Heritage Talk - Graylingwell
Join us for a special screening of the Barone Hopper film, offering a
Sep15
19:00 Upstairs @ Raps with Adam Norsworthy (The Milkmen)
Best known as the guitarist and founder member of British blues/rock headliners THE

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