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The York Festival is a two-week, multi-arts event based in the historic town of York, Western Australia. It attracts thousands of visitors each year, offering a diverse program of family-friendly entertainment featuring music and performing arts; arts and crafts; walking tours; and much more in Western Australia’s oldest inland town held in springtime during the September school holidays when the wildflowers and canola are in full bloom.

This year’s highlights include the long-awaited return of jazz to York over the Festival’s opening weekend, with a jam-packed program of acts from renowned local WA performers held throughout the town’s iconic venues; the launch of a new Writers Program curated by The West Australian’s William Yeoman over the festival’s second weekend; and a host of other events that will see The York Festival reassert itself as the premier cultural event in the Avon Valley.

The Festival’s focus on rare and endangered crafts in the historic town of York is an opportunity to showcase diverse craft practices from blacksmithing and fibre weaving, to boot making and printmaking (in WA’s only print museum), embroidery and wood carving, and presents an opportunity to learn about some of our oldest craft practices and some of the characters who practised them in York in the 19th century.