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An ambitious new plan setting out how culture can boost health and wellbeing, strengthen local communities, support the creative economy and enhance the visitor experience across the district has been agreed by Bath & North East Somerset Council.

Following its acclaimed world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse in 2023, a restaging of Christy Lefteri’s best-selling novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, will visit Bath as part of a national tour. 

Forty years after studying in the city, Glenn Brown will return to Bath this spring with a major exhibition that disrupts the calm order and symmetry long associated with Georgian design.

The Bath Waiters’ Race returned for 2026 with a burst of energy, drawing crowds, cameras, and plenty of competitive spirit.

The Hall Estate in Bradford-on-Avon has announced a unique collaboration with Moulton Bicycles to launch the new 'The Hall Special Edition' bike. 

Iford Manor Estate has recently been featured in More4’s series ‘Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith’, in which Penelope follows the passionate owners of Britain’s country houses as they do whatever it takes to keep their historic homes in one piece.

We take a look at press and media coverage for Bath, from February 2026. 

This Easter, The Roman Baths has cracked the perfect family day out with a line‑up of trails, creative activities, hands‑on archaeology and special evening openings.

With more than 100 shows and featuring well over 300 performances, Bath Comedy Festival is back again to keep Bath roaring with laughter over four whole weeks this Spring.

Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery has welcomed more than 66,000 visitors between April and December 2025 - its highest number since before the pandemic. 

Over four weeks in May and June Bath Festivals welcomes a host of authors, poets, historians, comedians and world-class musicians to the city in celebration of music and books.

Bath Restaurant Week is back for its second year, serving up a full week of flavour from 17 to 24 March 2026.