Arts Week Programme 2026

Arts Week 2026

Arts Week 15–22 June Arts Week 2026 provides another action-packed celebration of the visual arts, drama, music and the spoken word at Haileybury.

This year’s theme is The Arts: Past, Present & Future, through which we explore our relationship with the arts past and present and question the future of the arts in a world of AI and Machine Learning. Events and performances will take place across the School, including an Arts Tent on Pavilion that provides a focus for many of our activities, featuring teaching, concerts, workshops and talks, all celebrating and affirming the rich diversity of the School’s artistic life.

Tickets via the website or by invitation through SchoolPost.

We invite you to join us!

Monday 15 June 7.30–9.00 PM 60 YEARS OF THE ART SCHOOL EXHIBITION Art School

Join us for an exhibition of the very best artwork produced by Haileybury pupils past, present and future. We will be exhibiting a range of pieces created by our talented pupils across a range of year groups along with OHs, teachers and last year’s best A Level and GCSE pieces.

Join us to celebrate the achievements of our pupils and to view what promises to be a stunning and varied exhibition, whilst also celebrating the 60 year anniversary of Lord Attlee opening the Art School.

Doors open from 7.30 pm with speeches and a special unveiling commencing at 7.45 pm.

Jacob Thomas Director of Drama Angus Head Deputy Head Co-Curricular RIchard Brain Director of Music Darren Glyde Head of Art

Tuesday 16 June 9.00 AM CLAY WORKSHOP Arts Tent Head of Art Darren Glyde offers a clay sculpting workshop open to parents and staff, creating a section of a totem pole, to help form a larger outdoor sculpture by the Art School. No previous experience required. Max 12. Please email d.glyde@haileybury.com to book a place.

5.00 PM

SPOTLIGHT RECITAL

Rohit: Saxophone Bradby Hall

Rohit (L6, Edmonstone) demonstrates the range and versatility of Saxophone repertoire with his solo recital for Arts Week.

5.45 PM LECTURE THE DEATH OF ART with Tom Wade Arts Tent Director of Innovation and Digital Strategy Tom Wade, our resident expert and nationally recognised trailblazer in the field of AI and Education, turns his attention to the future of the Arts in a world ever more replete with machine learning and AI generated content.

7.30 PM IMMERSIVE SHAKESPEARE Ayckbourn Theatre

A series of soliloquies performed by drama scholars in the atrium before pupils from the Removes Performance Drama pathway present extracts from Shakespeare’s political masterpiece Julius Caesar.

Having explored the popular modern form of immersive theatre (Punchdrunk, Secret Cinema), audiences will be plunged into an atmospheric and reimagined Rome, amidst the conspiratorial intrigue and moral dilemmas surrounding the assassination of Roman leader Julius Caesar.

Wednesday 17 June 6.00 PM RECITAL SHAKESPEARE

BY HEART 9.00 AM DARCY TURNER SCULPTURE WORKSHOP

Arts Tent

Pupils and staff perform from memory their chosen work by Shakespeare, with a prize for the best recital. Featuring soliloquies and sonnets, verse and prose, this wonderful event is organised and hosted by the English department.

Arts Tent Based in London, Darcy designs, sculpts, invents and manufactures.

We are delighted to welcome him to run his unique wire sculpture workshop with our pupils.

10.30 AM – 3.00 PM ARTISTS OF ST ALBANS Terrace A group of talented local artists will be painting Haileybury outdoors on the croquet lawn.

7.00 PM A NIGHT ON BROADWAY Ayckbourn Theatre

The electrifying and ever-popular A Night on Broadway returns to the Ayckbourn with renditions of a selection of songs from popular musicals. The event features content from all year groups and will be judged as a competition to discover Arts Week’s premiere musical theatre sensation!

9.00 PM LATE NIGHT CHORAL COMPLINE Chapel

The Schola Cantorum sings the ancient office of Compline. Music to include Charles Wood’s Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Thomas Tallis’ If Ye Love Me and Thomas Weelkes’ Hosanna to the Son of David marking the 450th anniversary of the Tudor composer’s birth.

Conductor | Mr Brain; Organ | Mr Ali

Thursday 18 June 6.00 PM EXHIBITION

7.30 PM

20 TREES

by James Robinson

SUMMER CONCERT

SciTech A commissioned collection of drawings from our artist in residence James Robinson, celebrating the diverse and beautiful arboriculture of Haileybury, in particular conjunction with our new woodland management plan and sustainability initiatives.

Bradby Hall From Classical to Jazz, the Summer Concert presents a programme of easy listening from our main school ensembles including the Symphony Orchestra, Big Band, Wind Band, Schola Cantorum, Contemporary Choir and Lower School Choir.

Joseph (L6, Bartle Frere) and Bérenger (L6, Thomason) will also perform Schubert’s landmark piano duet, Fantasie in F minor.

Conductors | Mrs Apley, Mr Batchelor, Mr Brain, Mr Gibson-Smith, Ms Gill and Mrs Groom.

Friday 19 June 10.30 AM

9.00 PM

GOSPEL WORKSHOP

MADRIGALS AT GREAT AMWELL

Bradby Hall Pupils are fortunate to workshop songs with members of the London Community Gospel Choir – one of the most energetic and SPOTLIGHT RECITAL inspiring forces in the UK’s gospel scene.

1.30 PM

Gospel Choir Arts Tent

Formed especially for Arts Week, the Haileybury Gospel Choir presents a joyful programme of song, further inspired by their workshop with LCGC. Guaranteed to lift your spirits!

Conductor | Mr Ali

7.30 PM DRAMA SHOWCASE

Ayckbourn Theatre

Featuring work by drama scholars, LAMDA pupils, A-level drama pupils and the newly formed pupil-led performing arts creative executive (PACE), the drama showcase promises an exciting evening of culture and entertainment.

Great Amwell Pool Haileybury Chorus and Schola Cantorum continue the long tradition of singing madrigals by Great Amwell Pool. With its atmospheric weeping willows, this evocative celebration of summer will see the choirs perform traditional madrigals and

partsongs at sunset. To include works by Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Thomas Weelkes.

Conductors | Mr Deveson and Mr Brain.

Saturday 20 June 6.30 PM POP ON PAVILION

Pavilion/Arts Tent Haileybury’s pop bands and other groups provide an upbeat musical accompaniment to the In Weekend barbeque. Whilst primarily an informal event for the pupils to come together and enjoy music, food and friendship in the sun, support of parents and the Haileybury Community is also welcome.

Sunday 21 June 10.00 AM

11.00 AM

ARTS WEEK FESTIVAL SERVICE

AVENUE RUN

Chapel

This wonderful service is the culmination of our Arts Week and will include poetry, literature, drama and a wide variety of music.

All parents, guardians and friends are welcome and warmly invited to attend.

Avenue The annual, and hotly-contested, Avenue Run concludes this year’s Arts Week in a blaze of fevered activity. All are welcome to line the perimeter of the Avenue as pupils career at speed to the finish line!

Arts Week 2026 Monday 15 June 7.30 pm EXHIBITION 60 Years of the Art School Art School Tuesday 16 June 9.00 am CLAY WORKSHOP Darren Glyde Arts Tent 5.00 pm SPOTLIGHT RECITAL Rohit L6, Ed Bradby Hall 5.45 pm LECTURE The Death of Art, Tom Wade Arts Tent 7.30 pm IMMERSIVE SHAKESPEARE Ayckbourn Theatre Wednesday 17 June 9.00 am SCULPTURE WORKSHOP Arts Tent 10.30 am ARTISTS OF ST ALBANS Terrace 6.00 pm SHAKESPEARE BY HEART Arts Tent 7.00 pm A NIGHT ON BROADWAY Ayckbourn Theatre 9.00 pm LATE NIGHT CHORAL COMPLINE Chapel Thursday 18 June 6.00 pm ART EXHIBITION James Robinson 7.30 pm SUMMER CONCERT

SciTech Bradby Hall

Friday 19 June 10.30 am GOSPEL WORKSHOP Bradby Hall 1.30 pm SPOTLIGHT RECITAL Gospel Choir Arts Tent 7.30 pm DRAMA SHOWCASE Ayckbourn Theatre 9.00 pm MADRIGALS Great Amwell Pool Saturday 20 June 6.30 pm POP ON PAVILION

Pavilion/Arts Tent

Sunday 21 June 10.00 am FESTIVAL SERVICE 11.00 am AVENUE RUN

Chapel Avenue