Urbanologie is offering a 15% discount on Curious Arts Festival Tickets, a festival set in the breathtaking grounds of the Pylewell Park Estate in Hampshire, featuring an array of musical, literary and performance talent, with a bit of curiosity thrown in.

Close to the harbour town of Lymington on the Hampshire coast, Curious Arts Festival is fast gathering a reputation as one of the most intriguing and refined dates in the British cultural calendar. The line-up includes a formidable cast of literary talent ranging from the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy to Booker prize-winner DBC Pierre and author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel novels, Deborah Moggach. Afternoons see stand-up comedians take to the stage, this year includes, Chris Martin, Zoe Lyons, Lloyd Griffiths, Simon Evans and improv troupe, the Noise Next Door.

The whole festival kicks-off with an operatic performance, and evenings offer an array of musical acts with this year’s line-up including Billy Bragg, Lucy Rose, Skinny Lister, Jake Isaac and Matt Maltese as well as some world-beating boogie woogie piano from Ben Waters.

As you might expect from a festival called ‘Curious’, there are oodles of other occurrences taking place, including: a sonnet-athon led by celebrated playwright Polly Stenham, life drawing, snail racing, poetry workshops, insect walks, jabberwocky hunts, garden tours, an authors’ XI cricket match, a wellbeing centre, yoga, bedtime stories and a film tent.

Check here full information on the line-up, oddities, camping, glamping and, of course, to buy tickets, offered to Urbanologie members at a special 15% discount on weekend tickets (full price £120. Day tickets also available). Simply use the code ‘curiousfriend2016’ when booking.

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