Speak out in 2025!
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- Public speaking
- Poetry recital
- Prose reading
- Public speaking
- Solo acting
- The power of words
On Zoom in time zones around the world, in May 2025
This year’s Oratory Festival starts in
Welcome!
We’re really excited to welcome you to the third year of the International Oratory Festival, an online celebration of speech and drama … 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!
We’ll be holding Zoom events in a range of time zones from Thursday 9 May to Sunday 19 May, 2024. If you’re between the ages of 6 and 18, you can enter our friendly competition by reading the words of great writers in Poetry Recital from Memory, Prose Reading, Solo Acting or Shakespeare Sonnet. Treat us to your original work in Your Original Poetry, or wow us with your original oratory in our public speaking categories Sharing with an Audience, Presenting an Argument, Speaking to Inform or Impromptu. Or keep us up to date with news in your area by giving us a Live News Report.
Debbie Newman and Alison Coates, Chief Judges
Syllabus
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Groups
Schools or clubs can benefit from a reduced entry price of £10 (£5 off our individual entry rate). Organisations making over 20 entries qualify for further discounts.
Our categories
We have nine exciting categories which you can enter. Each one enables you to share your skills in a different area of oratory, from reading great words by established authors to presenting your own thoughts.
Our age groups
We love hearing from a wide range of young voices across our four age groups.
British & International Federation of Festivals
We are delighted to be affiliated to the British & International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance & Speech.
The Noisy Classroom
Helping young people become persuasive and creative speakers, critical listeners, analytical thinkers and engaged citizens
The International Oratory Festival is founded and run by the Noisy Classroom. Based in the UK, we are a training organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the use of speaking and listening in schools. We also offer online coaching for families and individual young people around the world. Visit noisyclassroom.com or email info@noisyclassroom.com to book!