Your summer arts festival

PLAY! is our annual summer festival showcasing some of the best of our arts community at Royal Holloway, presented by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.

PLAY! Festival returns bigger and better than ever, showcasing the very best of music, film, and theatre at one of the UK's highly-ranked arts faculties, with events curated and performed by the staff and students of Royal Holloway. With pop-up recitals, spoken word, film screenings, cross-arts collaborations, jazz and music theatre gigs, talks and recital-lectures, new music from across the UK, plus the year's largest orchestral event, PLAY! offers a bundle of exciting events for all. 

This year's festival will take place between Sunday, 7 June 2026 to Friday, 12 June 2026, in venues across campus.

What's On

Our full offering will be released to the public by Monday, 18 May 2026.

To find out what's on, please visit our events page (link embedded). 

Car parking

When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12 or 4.

Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the mini-roundabout behind the Students’ Union. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park.

Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car park 1W, as well as between Gardeners Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.

Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of our campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk