Editing Reading, Berkshire (section)

===Festivals===
[[File:Reading Festival 2007, bird's eye view 2.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of [[Reading and Leeds Festivals|Reading Festival]] 2007]]
Every year Reading hosts the [[Reading and Leeds Festivals|Reading Festival]], which has been running since 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=Festival History|url=http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/social-history/reading-festival/festival-history/|work=[[Reading Museum]]|publisher=Reading Borough Council|access-date=12 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531101416/http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/social-history/reading-festival/festival-history|archive-date=31 May 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Reading Festival: A history as 2010 line up announced|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8593000/8593803.stm|work=[[BBC News]]|location=London|access-date=12 June 2011|date=29 March 2010|first=Jenny|last=Minard|archive-date=8 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208134204/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8593000/8593803.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The festival takes place on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August [[bank holiday]] weekend and is the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom aside from the [[Glastonbury Festival]]. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm in Reading, Richfield Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Reading Festival Location|url=https://www.readingfestival.com/index.php?s=Location&t=info|access-date=1 February 2021|website=|archive-date=7 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207095322/https://www.readingfestival.com/index.php?s=Location&t=info|url-status=live}}</ref> For some twenty years until 2006, Reading was also known for its [[WOMAD Charlton Park|WOMAD Festival]] until it moved to [[Charlton Park, Wiltshire|Charlton Park]] in [[Malmesbury]], [[Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,765215,00.html|title=WOMAD in Reading|access-date=6 July 2006|work=[[guardian.co.uk]]|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group]]|location=London|first=Deborah|last=Schofield|date=5 August 2002|archive-date=22 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122084640/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,765215,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[BBC News]]|location=London|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/5403836.stm|title=Womad venue change after 17 years|access-date=20 October 2006|date=3 October 2006|archive-date=7 October 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007075510/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/5403836.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> 

The Reading [[Beer Festival]] was first held in 1994<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/lifestyle/food_and_drink/s/2049954_reading_beer_festival_family_friendly_fun|title=Reading Beer Festival: family friendly fun|work=[[Reading Post]]|publisher=Surrey & Berkshire Media|access-date=13 June 2009|date=30 April 2009|first=Jonny|last=Fordham|archive-date=5 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605160021/http://www.getreading.co.uk/lifestyle/food_and_drink/s/2049954_reading_beer_festival_family_friendly_fun|url-status=live}}</ref> and has now grown to one of the largest beer festivals in the United Kingdom. It is held at [[King's Meadow, Reading|King's Meadow]] for the five days immediately preceding the [[May Day]] bank holiday every year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readingbeerfestival.org.uk/|title=18th Reading CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival|publisher=Reading Beer Festival|access-date=13 June 2009|archive-date=26 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626220628/http://www.readingbeerfestival.org.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Reading also holds [[Reading Pride]], an annual [[LGBT]] festival in Kings Meadow.