Festival Events

Following the 2009 bicentenary year of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication ‘On the Origins of Species’, Shrewsbury’s annual Darwin Festival returns with a full programme of events. Scroll down and take a look.

This year the seventh annual Darwin Festival takes places over a long weekend from 12th - 14th February 2010.

The Entangled Bank

The Entangled Bank

Buses and shop windows will be used to display new poems reflecting on the way in which the landscape and environment can inspire the observant and enquiring mind.

Buses and shop windows will be used to display new poems reflecting on the way in which the landscape and environment can inspire the observant and enquiring mind.

Location: Shrewsbury Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury

Date: 1st January 2009 to 28th February 2009 at 10:00

Price: Free event

Contact: 01743 281200

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Dance workshops for the Beagle Ball, 13th, 20th, & 29th September

6.30 to 8.00pm at The Lion Hotel

On 3rd October a Ball will be held at The Lion Hotel to celebrate the return of Charles Darwin from The Beagle in October 1836.

These professionally-led dance workshops are for anyone interested in learning and performing dances of the period at the Ball.

All tickets 25.00 GBP, including a buffet and an evening entertainment and celebration. The Beagle Ball tickets are on sale at the Lion Hotel reception and the Visitor Information Centre at Rowley's House. Alternatively contact Shrewsbury Heritage

For information about Darwin related events throughout the rest of the U.K. please click the image below: