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!
Jacob Thomas Director of Drama
Angus
Head Deputy Head Co-Curricular
RIchard
Brain Director of Music
Darren
Glyde Head of Art
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.
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.
5.45 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.
5.00 PM SPOTLIGHT RECITAL
Bradby Hall
Rohit (L6, Edmonstone) demonstrates the range and versatility of Saxophone repertoire with his solo recital for Arts Week.
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
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
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.
A group of talented local artists will be painting Haileybury outdoors on the croquet lawn.
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!
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
20 TREES
by James Robinson
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.
7.30 PM
SUMMER CONCERT
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 GOSPEL WORKSHOP
Pupils are fortunate to workshop songs with members of the London Community Gospel Choir – one of the most energetic and inspiring forces in the UK’s gospel scene.
Bradby Hall 1.30 PM SPOTLIGHT RECITAL 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
