Plan your visit

Attending events

Getting here

Please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission and any pre-booked talks and shows. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device.

If you have booked for talks and shows, we recommend arriving at least 30 minutes before the start of your first session, to allow time to check in and make your way through the venue.

We hate to leave seats empty, so for free events, unbooked, or unused seats will be allocated to walk-up visitors on first-come, first-served basis, so do arrive on time if you have booked tickets.

This year the in-person Festival of Tomorrow is being held at The Deanery CE Academy, Peglars Way, Swindon SN1 7DA

By bus: Swindon's Bus Company Service #11 or Stagecoach Route #9 (Get off at Waitrose)

On foot / by bike - The Deanery is a pleasant walk along the Canal Towpath from the town centre or the Old Railway Line from Old Town

By car or taxi: Use the address above in google maps or What3Words - medium best grapes https://w3w.co/medium.best.grapes

Free car parking for up to 192 cars is available on site. However, parking may get very busy at peak times, so please plan ahead and leave plenty of time to park before any talks and shows or use alternative methods of transport if you can.

This year the in-person Festival of Tomorrow is being held at The Deanery CE Academy, Peglars Way, Swindon SN1 7DA

By bus: Swindon's Bus Company Service #11 or Stagecoach Route #9 (Get off at Waitrose)

On foot / by bike - The Deanery is a pleasant walk along the Canal Towpath from the town centre or the Old Railway Line from Old Town

By car or taxi: Use the address above in google maps or What3Words - medium best grapes https://w3w.co/medium.best.grapes

Admission and check in

Please make sure you bring all your tickets with you for admission and any pre-booked talks and shows. You can print them off or show them on your mobile device.

If you have booked for talks and shows, we recommend arriving at least 30 minutes before the start of your first session, to allow time to check in and make your way through the venue.

Refreshments

The Cornerstone Café will be open for hot and cold drinks, light lunches and snacks.

Hall & Woodhouse pub sits directly opposite the school, with great food and drink in a gorgeous canal-side atmosphere.

Waitrose is a five minute walk across the canal bridge.

Wish we’d come earlier!

Amazing – wish we’d come earlier!

- Visitor

Phenomenal event

Congratulations on a phenomenal event!

- Tim Barrett– Intel

Great for the community.

Amazing! Great for the community, I adore this event

- Visitor

Highlight of school holiday week!

I visited with my children and they loved it, it was the highlight of their school holiday week. We will definitely come again next year!

- Parent

STEM to STEAM

In an increasingly robotised world, the need for human creativity, humanity and positive multidisciplinary collaborations has rarely felt more important. The role that the arts play, including in connecting people with science, technology, engineering and maths is essential. I look forward to visiting the Festival of Tomorrow, discovering & exploring developments. I congratulate Rod Hebden and the team in bringing this Festival to life.

- Carole Bent Founder : STEMtoSTEAM Suppers Creative Catalyst Art Partner