FEVA: Knaresborough's Festival of Visual Arts and Entertainment

The organisers of Knaresborough's iconic feva festival will put on a series of highly entertaining online shows for their regular audiences this August.

In addition, there will be art displays mounted in commercial premises around the town.

The planned online events will feature music, the premier of a brand-new play, poetry by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and a variety of street entertainment.

Other features include a fascinating description of how Jane Austen might have coped with the pandemic. Shortlisted entrants in feva's Knaresborough's Got Talent show will also feature in the festival lineup.

Organisers are focusing on the same 10-day period over which feva was originally intended to run – 14 to 23 August.

Festival videos will be available to see on our website www.feva.info and Knaresborough's Got Talent entrants' performances will be on feva's Facebook pages.

National Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was booked to perform at this year's festival but the lockdown has made this impossible. Nevertheless he was delighted to supply a video of some of his poems, providing a unique glimpse into the Yorkshire life of this acknowledged great man of letters.

Find the full rundown of events and videos on the FEVA website.