Croydon Performing
Arts Festival
Building Lifetime Memories
The Croydon Performing Arts Festival is open to all amateurs to perform in Western Music, South Asian Music, Dance, South Asian Dance and Speech and Drama. It is one of the largest performing-arts festivals in the country attracting more than 1000 performers each year.
2027 Festival
We are pleased to announce that the entry system for the 2027 festival is now open to receive your entries.
Please look closely at the syllabus because there are some modifications, especially
within the Speech section, and we also have some exciting new sections, namely, a
comprehensive section for rock musicians and singer-songwriters and, within our
ever-popular South Asian sections we have classes for Kandyan drumming and
Classical Sri Lankan Dance.
We would also draw your attention to the Musical versatility classes – both within
Western and South Asian musical formats – and we have a new cash prize class,
organised in conjunction with Words & Music, for a performer to present a themed
short recital of English art song and verse.
Please note the closing date carefully as any entries received after this date will
necessitate manual entry with, subject to space being available, an added
administration fee.
For information regarding the AED Dance Festival, to be held from May 29th to June 4th
please contact the advertised Dance Coordinators at cpafdance.aed@gmail.com
Follow our instagram for live updates and keep an eye on the Dance Page of our website
2026 Prize Winners
A big "Thank You!" to all our 2026 participants.
We would also like to congratulate the performers nominated by our adjudicators for our 2026 cash prizes.
South Asian Music
Surya Gandla - Vocal
Asmi Panda – Vocal
South Asian Dance
Vaishnavi
Dhakshinasree Narmula,
Saburi Taneja and,
Nirvignya Sai Narmula
Rasikapriya
Ahrani Sivarajah, Avaana
Samuel, Oviya Yathunanthan,
Ashaiya Amin, Reisha Rajeen
and Arya Samuel
Choir
The Downsmen
Strings
Alexander Cetateanu
Isabelle Galea Harris
Coleridge-Taylor
Ian Roy
Piano
Yan Shun Damien Cheng
Several Disciplines
Mythili Krishnan
Speech
Esme Morrish
Drama
Jasmina Sermuka
A note from our Chair, Richard Deering
If you have appreciated the work put into this festival and you realise the enormous help that the festival has given to develop the self-esteem and self-respect, especially for the young performers, and would like to offer help - either-year-round or at the event - so that we may make it possible to continue holding our events, please contact us! On behalf of the Trustees, thank you for your continued interest and support.
