Making It Festival 2025
Making It Festival returns for 2025: a three-week celebration of new, original work made by Guildhall School’s vibrant and multi-skilled student community, featuring an eclectic line up of performances, installations and talks.
Making It Festival, 17 Jun – 4 Jul 2025
What does it mean to “make it” as an artist in the 21st century? As traditions evolve and power shifts, artists with the skills to create their own work become the trailblazers of our culture.
Join us for the 2025 Making It Festival : a three-week celebration of new, original work made by Guildhall School’s vibrant and multi-skilled student community.
Festival events include:
- Opera Makers
- GradEx: Production Arts Graduate Exhibition 2025
- The Making of Us : Final Year Actors’ Self-Led Performances
- Collaborative Performance Making Showcase
- Electronic & Produced Music Showcase
- SMORGASBORD: The Making It Cabaret
- Our Making It Work discussion series
The jam-packed Festival programme also includes special events, installations and pop-up performances across the campus.
Tickets start at just £5, and most events are free
Join us this summer to celebrate the next generation of ground-breaking artists.
Image above: artwork by Guildhall Production Arts student Farah Ishaq, presented as part of the 2024 Making It Festival
Making It Festival events
Making It Festival ticketed concerts multi-buy offer:
Book 2 concerts for a 15% discount
Book 3 concerts for a 25% discount
Add multiple Making It Festival events to your basket at barbican.org.uk and the discount will automatically be applied.
Opera Makers
Final Year Actors’ Self-Led Performances
SMORGASBORD: The Making It Cabaret
No ticket is required for free Making It Festival events - just turn up!
Festival Hub, Silk Street Theatre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DT
Milton Court Concert Hall & Theatres, Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London EC2Y 9BH
Find out more about how to get to Guildhall School on our Visiting Guildhall School webpage
