This is the archived website of the Waterloo Festival 2021 with additional material from Waterloo Festival 2020. We hope you will enjoy exploring this cornucopia of arts, heritage and community creativity. For the current website, visit here.
St John’s Waterloo is a well-known music and arts venue. We host a year-round programme of live events by performers from all over the world and we bring artists and arts organisations together with local people to co-produce projects that reflect the diverse communities around us.
Waterloo Festival 2021: Respair
Every summer we run the annual Waterloo Festival. In 2021, the Festival will return for another edition between early May and the end of June. This year's theme is RESPAIR, an old English word meaning the return of hope after a period of despair. Read more about this here.
In 2020, we took the Festival online and by popular demand have kept its contents live – take a look at the other pages of this website! We’re always open to new collaborations, so if you have an idea you’d like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you. Contact musicdirector@stjohnswaterloo.org.
New and some featured posts from 2020's digital edition

Drawing of the garden at St John's Waterloo by David Bassadone
Featuring La La Land by Peter Avery as it appeared in Nothing Endures But Change:
An outdoors sculpture exhibition curated by Susan Haire, Waterloo Festival 2018