Byline Festival 2025
July 11 @ 8:00 am - July 13 @ 5:00 pm
Friends of Lunar Event:
Enjoy a festival celebrating music, comedy, theatre, literature, workshops and more with Byline Festival!
Byline Festival was founded by Peter Jukes and Stephen Colegrave in 2017, as a constructive response to the Brexit referendum – and Trump’s election. The festival was borne out of the founders’ desire to counter the rise of disinformation and its interference in democracy – complemented and occasioned by the noticeable lack of veracity in the media, at the time.
It was important to them that they didn’t just create a conference by another name. The aim was to launch a festival for all the senses that bought people together by including thought-provoking talks, tackling the big issues of the day – whilst offering the festival-goers a series of enjoyable, immersive, experiences, in the spoken word, music, and comedy spaces, too.
