Folk Weekend Oxford
Overview
Folk Weekend: Oxford is a folk festival that takes place in various venues around Oxford in April each year. The weekend includes concerts, ceilidhs, workshops and morris dance displays. Folk Weekend 2018 runs from the 20th-22nd of April. For more information please visit: http://folkweekendoxford.co.uk/
Contact details
Market Street Oxford Oxfordshire South East OX1 3DZ United Kingdom
https://www.folkweekendoxford.co.uk/access/
Access Card notes
We are working to make Folk Weekend: Oxford as accessible as possible. Our Special Saturday events are are particularly suited to people with Special Needs and their families, and include a ceilidh and family folk show. If you would like to attend Folk Weekend but need to employ a carer or Personal Assistant to come with you then please get in touch to ask about free carer tickets. People in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Carers Allowance are entitled to purchase tickets at a concessionary rate.
Access guidance
- If possible, we will let in immediately people who have difficulty with standing and queuing. If we are not able to let people in to the venue then we can hold a place in the queue and/or provide seating if we are able. All of our concert venues are seated, stewards can assist finding suitable seats and/or wheelchair spaces.
- The festival uses a variety of buildings around the centre of Oxford, due to the nature of the old buildings found in Oxford we may not be able to achieve level access throughout the festival. For information on individual venues please visit: http://folkweekendoxford.co.uk/access-info.html
- Our venues are spread around Oxford, so there may be a fair walk between venues. A map of our venues is available here: http://folkweekendoxford.co.uk/venue-map.html There are drop-off points for cars and taxis outside all venues. For more information on parking please visit: http://folkweekendoxford.co.uk/access-info.html
- Most of our venues have some form of accessible toilet, that should be free unless being used by someone who requires it. Information on individual venues can be found at: http://folkweekendoxford.co.uk/access-info.html Email us at access@folkweekendoxford.co.uk if you require further arrangements.
- Assistance dogs are welcome in all venues. We do ask that you bring with you some proof that your dog is registered with an organisation that is a member of Assistance Dogs UK.
- If you would like to attend Folk Weekend but need to employ a carer or Personal Assistant to come with you then please get in touch to ask about free carer tickets. If this will make the difference to you being able to attend then we are more than happy to provide tickets for carers, but will have to ask you to provide evidence of your need for this. Please get in touch to discuss this with us.
- Accessibility information and the main schedule are available to download as Word or PDF documents. If you would like any other information in an alternative format please email admin@folk-arts-oxford.co.uk.
- Currently we do not have BSL interpretors or Audio Descriptions at our performances, though it's something we'd like to work towards in the future. If this is something you think you can help with please get in touch! We do have one performance at our 2017 festival which is Makaton-signed folk song.