The Lichfield Festival will be moving to a Cuban beat as the 30th anniversary schedule gets into full swing.
Lichfield Cathedral will be the venue for the Creole Choir of Cuba to blend their unique musical talents with vibrant dancing at 7.30pm.
And dance will also be the focus of the Ballet Black show at 8pm at the Lichfield Garrick.
The company of black and Asian dancers have developed a strong following in the arts community and will showcase a mixed bill of their highlights from the past decade for their city show.
Meanwhile, Pig Tales continues for two to six-year-olds at Erasmus Darwin House. The same venue will also host junior journalist workshops at 12.30pm and 2pm.
St Michael’s Church will host the Endellion String Quartet at 3pm, while the musical blend of Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan and Ian Blake will perform at the Cathedral’s Lady Chapel at 10pm.
Nobody’s Perfect Productions will bring Lichfield writer Phil Preece’s new work Dark Angel to the stage at 8pm at the Garrick Studio.
Author and scientist Peter Atkins will talk at the George Hotel at 10.30am.
A spokesperson explained:
“A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of science. Now he turns to the greatest – and most controversial – questions of human existence.
“Can the scientific method tell us anything of value about birth, death, the origin of reality – and its end?”
Lichfield Cathedral’s organ will be under the guidance of Peter King at noon as he performs works by Liszt, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
The George VI will welcome the Rob Anstey Quartet at 9.30pm, while a sing-along workshop at the Lichfield Guildhall will work with hits from the Great American Songbook.
Meanwhile a cinematic classic will feature in an outdoor showing when Casablanca is shown in the Chapter Gardens.
People will also play detective when they begin the hunt for Trevor, the Festival’s pig.
Every day the decorated statue will be in a different location across the city. The first person to spot him and report back to education@lichfieldfestival.org will win two tickets to a Lichfield Festival event.
The Lichfield Festival runs until July 17. For the full programme and ticket information visit www.lichfieldfestival.org.