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Bastille Day Festival 2025

Family entertainment with a French touch

12 & 13 July, 11:00-17:00

If you are looking for another reason to don your Red, White and Blue, get in on the festivities...

After 13 years of continued success, Bastille Day Festival Reading is rolling out its plans for yet another weekend of fun, relaxation and laughter staged in the Forbury Gardens, Reading in 2025.

Confirmed so far for 2025:

  • Battle re-enactment group Historia Normannis 
  • Baroque Music with Magic Fight 1789
  • Sandy Maya's Dance World French Can-Can
  • French band Cidre et Bière
  • Guinguette
  • Élodie Siby
  • Maloé
  • Artistic Exhibition 1789 Révolution French
  • Delicious food, wines, funfair and more!

Our sole purpose is to entertain you and your family while bringing people of all cultural background together around a French themed festival. Big thank you to Abbey Quarter Business District as our biggest sponsor this year and Reading Borough Council for supporting us year after year.

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