All the pictures from Hampstead Summer Festival 2025

At the Art Fair, Eugenia Alexeyev was justifiably smiling after scooping the prize for painting the best picture of Keats House.

There were also displays of children’s art and creative activities.

Eugenia Alexeyev wins the competition for painting the best picture of Keats House at the Art Fair. (Image: Stephen Bobasch) The historic venue where the poet John Keats once lived was also the setting for some brilliant open air theatre.

All four performances of Vanity Fair by Moving Parts Theatre Company were sold out to great acclaim.

At the annual family garden party there was a performance from Rona Hart School of Dance and an appearance by The Mystical Fairy, alongside a magician, face painting, rhyme-time, and birds of prey.

Moving Parts Theatre company performed Vanity Fair outdoors in the garden of Keats House. (Image: Stephen Bobasch) And the fortnight of events wrapped up with The Big Fair on Heath Street with 110 craft and food stalls, a fun fair, circus school for kids, SportZone, and giant chess set.

There was dancing in the street as Mad Dog Bites played out the Festival Finale.

All proceeds from the events will benefit the volunteer-run Keats Community Library and the Hampstead School of Art.