The Dickens Festival in Deventer is an annual event in the city center of Deventer. Volunteers recreate hundreds of characters from Charles Dickens books such as Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Mr. Pickwick, Christmas Carol singers, orphans, drunks, artisans and many others.
Theaterschip Deventer provides street theater acts.
The Dickens Festival is visited annually by approximately 120,000 people. There are also many foreign visitors, especially from Germany.