Knaresborough’s annual summer arts festival Feva will begin on Friday with a 10-day programme of about 80 events.
Feva has become one of the town’s main events of the year, with many shops decorated in promotional pink as part of a window competition organised by Knaresborough and District Chamber.
First held in 1996, this year’s line-up include a talk by book editor Ana Sampson on the hidden history of woman writers, an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Status Quo tribute act Status Faux.
Picnic in the Park, a free afternoon event at Knaresborough House featuring bands and DJs, takes place on August 19.
With Knaresborough Lions‘ three-day beer festival taking place on the same weekend, the town will be in celebratory mode.
Shop windows are decorated in Feva pink for the festival.
However, preparations have been hit by the Feva Facebook page being hacked,
Gwen Lloyd, chairperson of the Feva committee, said it had done everything possible to take back control of the site or even get it removed but Facebook had not acted.
A new Feva Facebook page with details of events is available here.
Ms Lloyd said:
“It’s been very frustrating. We’ve had to set up a new page and getting people to realise has been tricky.
“The old Facebook page is now under the control of someone in Vietnam. We can’t even get Facebook to close it down.”
Feva, which was founded by the late Derrick van Zelst and his son Robin, includes a combination of free and paid-for events.
It was initially called Knaresborough and was more of a folk festival, but changed its name to Feva — which stands for ‘festival of entertainment and visual arts — in 2001.
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