The popular Love Oswestry Festival returns in 2026  during February half term week (16th-21st February). The Festival promotes the culture and creativity of Oswestry and culminates in a spectacular community lantern parade on Saturday evening (21st February). 

Youth Project: Love Oswestry X Maona Cinema

In 2025, Love Oswestry was successful in being awarded funding from the European Council for the European Heritage Stories programme. As a part of our programme, Love Oswestry Love Where You Live, we included a project to work with young people in Oswestry aged 11-18years. Love Oswestry is now partnering with the newly opened Maona Cinema Oswestry to run a series of film workshops led by young people that will culminate in a public screening at Maona Cinema.

The brief for the project calls for young people to create their story of Oswestry, to capture through their own eyes what they love, where they like to go, what they enjoy doing, and what they think is great about Oswestry. 

Led by Tatenda Jamera, filmmaker and curator of Maona Art and director of Maona Cinema, the project will host a series of free workshops engaging a group of enthusiastic young people from a range of backgrounds who would like to explore storytelling and filmmaking. These workshops will take place in January and run until early February. The final film piece will be screened during the Love Oswestry Festival (16-21st February/half term week) at Maona Cinema, Oswestry.

We are looking for young people interested in joining these workshops. If you are interested please get in touch and let us know what days are best for you to come (i.e after school/Saturdays). We will schedule the workshops based on the responses we receive.

loveoswestry2026@gmail.com