12/05/2026
📣 Just one day to go and the excitement is building!
Don't miss the highlights of week one at Charleston Festival.
🌟 Wednesday 13 May, 7.30pm
Radical Ink
Paterson Joseph, Joely Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Anton Lesser, Harry Lloyd and Holly Dawson.
📖 Hogarth Press blazed a trail across 20th century publishing, publishing 527 books and giving voice to some of the most dazzling and innovative works of the era.
From Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, from Sigmund Freud to E. M. Forster, it reshaped literature and the reading world.
This Wednesday evening at Charleston Festival, six of our most captivating performers bring these works vividly to life, capturing the press’s bold, unconventional and politically charged spirit – a reminder of the enduring power of literature in a turbulent world.
Visit our exhibition 'Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press' to discover more and see the exceptional work created. This exhibition is created in partnership with the Gordon Square Society, Antwerp.
🌟 Thursday 14 May, 7.30pm
Notes from the Underground
Paris Lees and Lauren J. Joseph
Two of the most thrilling voices in contemporary fiction come together to explore the lure of excess, glamour and reinvention.
Together they expose obsession, fame and the terrible lengths we go to feel loved.
🌟 Thursday 14 May, 9pm
Saying Too Much
Adam Buxton
Adam Buxton has spent his career making things his own way.
In conversation with Miranda Sawyer, he'll reflect on the wild west of 1990s TV, life in a comedy partnership, creating a genre-defining podcast by accident, and the pros and cons of keeping a spreadsheet of the arguments you have with your partner.
🎟️ Book your tickets via the link in our bio
We can't wait to see you!
