Visit St Andrews
Our festival hub is the Byre Theatre on Abbey Street, with events in historic and contemporary venues around the town centre.
Venues and access
Explore our venues
StAnza uses a number of both historic and contemporary venues around the town centre of St Andrews, with our festival hub at the Byre Theatre on Abbey Street. Other spaces range from an award-winning contemporary music venue to an atmospheric medieval undercroft, a yurt, and a former seat of the old Scottish Parliament!
Click through to each venue for detailed information about accessibility at the site.
Festival hub
The Byre Theatre
Most festival events take place at the Byre Theatre on Abbey Street; our festival hub. It is the place to meet, browse the bookstall, grab a bite to eat and catch your breath between readings.
Accessibility and inclusion
Accessibility and inclusion at StAnza
The StAnza team works hard with its partners, stakeholders, volunteers and audiences to ensure the festival is a safe and welcoming place; a place where people can come together as themselves and share their love for poetry. We are continually seeking to improve the accessibility of the festival in the broadest possible sense.
We define inclusion as creating spaces and environments in which individuals can participate fully, safe in the expectation that their dignity and humanity will not be undermined by the circumstances or by others.
The festival offers:
BSL interpretation for headline events
Digital events and livestreams, extensive and low cost, with auto-generated captions on everything we stream
Pay what you can from £5.00, plus a series of free-to-attend events
Free tickets - up to 200 a year for service users of local community organisations.
Throughout 2026, we've been working with our community and an external access consultant on an accessibility and inclusion review of the festival and the wider organisation. If you have thoughts, comments or questions about accessibility, please email stanza@stanzapoetry.org.
Plan your trip
Getting here and staying over
Getting here
Train, bus, bike and travelling from Europe.
Where to stay
Hotels, B&Bs and budget options. Book early!
Access and inclusion
How we make the festival welcoming for everyone.
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