Making It Festival 2025

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Making It Festival, 17 Jun – 3 Jul 2025

What does it mean to “make it” as an artist in the 21st century? As traditions evolve and power shifts, artists with the skills to create their own work become the trailblazers of our culture.

Join us for the 2025 Making It Festival : a celebration of new, original work made by Guildhall School’s vibrant and multi-skilled student community.

Festival events include:

The jam-packed Festival programme also includes special events, installations and pop-up performances across the campus.

Tickets start at just £5, and most events are free

Join us this summer to celebrate the next generation of ground-breaking artists.

Image above: artwork by Guildhall Production Arts student Farah Ishaq, presented as part of the 2024 Making It Festival

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Q&A with Gilly Roche, Director of Making It Festival

"Our invitation to the students sharing work at Making It Festival is: be bold, take a risk, share the work that feels closest and truest to you."

Gilly Roche, Guildhall’s Head of Interdisciplinary Practice and Director of Making It Festival, chats to us about championing the next generation of artists, what audiences can expect from this year's Festival, and why “making it” means more than just making it big.

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Making It Festival is part of Making It – Guildhall’s new, year-round artist development programme Available from the first day of training until five years after graduation, it’s a rolling programme of opportunities dedicated to supporting artists to create, collaborate, innovate and build sustainable careers in an ever-changing creative landscape. To ‘make it’, whatever that means to them.