Our Festival

Award winning Family Theatre, Music, Comedy, Arts and Crafts

Music
Music to suit all tastes from Prohibition Jazz, folk, silver bands, children's performers, choirs and drumming
​Theatre
Plenty of performances to loose yourself in ranging from Shakespeare to interactive Alice in Wonderland productions
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​Family Activities
Fun for the whole family. Circus skills to arts & craft, family musicians, storytellers. Something to capture the imagination of the whole family
In an age where most communication happens in front of a screen, going to see a live performance, especially with children, can be funny, thought provoking, moving and above all, exciting!
We are proud to be a members of both the Family Standard Arts and the Age Standard Arts. These logos demonstrate the companies commitment to providing family-friendly and age-friendly Arts events.
They prove our commitment to providing activities that all family members can enjoy together. That we are welcoming to families, with helpful staff, good facilities and considered pricing. 

Our Festival

Great Barn Festival
 
The Great Barn in Great Coxwell has been a focal point within the West Oxfordshire landscape for centuries. It’s time to raise the roof in this most unusual venue!
Following on from the success of the inaugural 2018 event, the Great Barn Festival is back.

​On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June, the Barn is hosting a family friendly Festival of the Arts.

All performances are individually priced and a separate ticket must be purchased for all performances attended.  There is a small admission fee to enter the site, however guests with a valid ticket for any performance will be allowed free entry to the site on the day of their performance.
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​A wide range of free activities are included in the cost of entry such as children's arts & crafts, music, performances from local theatre and music groups, storytelling, circus skills, a silent disco and more! 

Our Venue

The Great Barn, Great Coxwell

Set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside, the Great Barn was built of Cotswold Stone around 1292 making it over 700 years old.

For further details on this most unusual festival venue, please visit
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/great-coxwell-barn
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Our Story

The Great Barn Festival was begun in 2018, organised by Boxed Up Events in partnership with the National Trust.
​The festival has brought life, colour, laughter, music and theatre to this magnificent 13th Century Barn, a much loved local landmark
Boxed Up Events
Boxed Up Events is an Oxfordshire based company, initially, the kitchen table project of two determined mums with a strong background in marketing, PR and events management. We firmly believe our creativity,  enthusiasm and experience help us make truly memorable events very achievable on every budget.
​www.boxedupevents.co.uk
National Trust
The National Trust is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The trust describes itself as "a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces—for ever, for everyone  
​https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/great-coxwell-barn

T E S T I M O N I A L S

Happy People
Just to say we absolutely loved both the events we took part in. The kids found Midsummer Nights Dream hilarious and it was wonderful to see them laughing so hard! The actors were just brilliant.
 
We loved the African Drumming workshop and it was brilliantly structured, the teacher was fantastic. We really felt we learnt something and wished we had paid for the adults in our party to have a drum too! It had me looking up African Drumming lessons on my phone afterwards!
 
I hope it will be happening again next year as I would have loved to attend some of the Sunday sessions too.
 

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