A Creative Generation, Forge Festival 2025
Forge Festival, A Creative Generation’ is a unique and inspiring programme of creative activity engaging schools, communities, and early career artists in Cumbria. Over 2 years, we aim to nurture a creative generation of young people, ready to have their voices heard and create change through the power of theatre.
What’s to come in 2025?
Now in its fourth year, Forge Festival will return to Windermere Jetty Museum in 2025 and planning is already under way!
In 2025, three new schools and three performance companies will work co-creatively with The Knotted Project to create original work for the festival through a range of art forms, engaging with hundreds of new young creatives from across Cumbria.
We will work with our Youth Advisory Board again to co-produce the festival, whilst also creating another original film centred around the festival theme for this year “Life through a lens- Young people in 2025.”
We will commission three new Early Career Artists to create original solo performances for 2025’s festival and embark on a tour to rural venues across the region with a selection of our ECA’s from all cohorts, developing their work further whilst expanding their reach and networks.
More Forge Festival 2025 updates to come very soon – watch this space!