Do you love words?
Do you like to meet new people from around the world?
Do you like to think differently?
If you do, you’ve come to the right place!
The International Oratory Festival – our online celebration of speech and
drama – will be entering its fourth year in 2025.
May 2025 main festival
We’ll be holding Zoom events in a range of time zones during May 2025.
If you’re between the ages of 6 and 18, you can enter our friendly competition in the following categories:
- Poetry recital
- Your original poetry
- Shakespeare sonnet
- Prose reading
- Solo acting
- Public speaking
- Presenting an argument
- Speaking to inform
- Impromptu
- Live news report
Our 2025 syllabus will be published later in the year. In the mean time, you can find information about our 2024 Festival at oratoryfestival.com.
Hold your own bespoke Oratory Festival in your school
This year, we’re excited to offer a new option for schools around the world. We can work with you to help you hold your own Oratory Festival! Whether you want to celebrate History, Science, a local special event, an anniversary of your school, or just oracy in general, an in-school Oratory Festival can be as joyous as it is learning rich.
Using our experience from our first few years of the International Oratory Festival, we can design a bespoke syllabus for your Festival. You can take your pick of our poetry, prose, acting, public speaking and news options. And we can deliver teacher training and pupil workshops to help you excel as orators.
Our expert adjudicators can help judge your Festival either via Zoom or (for schools in the UK) in person. Depending on when you want to hold your Festival, we can also explore options for linking you up with another school’s Festival elsewhere in the world.
All your students will receive a full adjudicator’s report and special certificate to celebrate their achievement.
Contact Debbie, our International Oratory Festival organiser, at debbie@noisyclassroom.com to find out more!