Maiden City Festival
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The Maiden City Festival occurs in the second week in August every year in the walled city of Derry in Northern Ireland. The festival was created to extend an understanding of local Protestant culture among all communities in the city and offers a variety of exhibitions, shows, talks and evening entertainment including cross-community events involving Ulster-Scots, Chinese, and other minorities, culminating with the Relief of Derry celebrations by the Apprentice Boys of Derry.
The Maiden City Festival is a celebration of diversity in Northern Ireland, a tribute to the Apprentice Boys of Derry and to the communities of the City in the way in which the Festival has been embraced as a festival that genuinely promotes the Maiden City. The festival is seen as a show for Protestant culture of tolerance and openness for the heritage that is entrusted to the Apprentice Boys of Derry. The Maiden City Festival is a way in which the Protestant community of Derry, a minority community, feels it is able to make a contribution to the life of the City and to the diversity of expression of culture.
