Frantic | Acrojou | 11:00 am – 11:30 am & 2pm – 2:30pm | Free
Love, freedom, blood, sweat and rain storms: Frantic is an explosive exploration of our relentless devotion to busyness. Acrobatics and dance-theatre choreographed around a bespoke structure, Frantic uses a rich physical language to pull apart its subject - the reality of a running mind and one man’s thirst for escape. Working at the meeting […]
Kent Festivals Network gathering | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Free
For Festival Producers | Booking Essential An opportunity for Kent-based festival producers to come together to share experiences and to explore opportunities for collaboration. Book tickets by emailing: [email protected]
A Master-Class with Simon Armitage | Open to Wise Words Festival’s young Word Out! poets | 4:00pm – 5:00pm |
Word Out! is a group of young poets (14-26) who are connected to Wise Words – supporting the festival in its ambition to increase the number of people who engage with and enjoy poetry.
Wise Words announces the Canterbury Laureate 2015-2016 | 5:30pm – 6:30pm | £5
We are delighted to have been asked to take over the development and running of the Canterbury Laureate Programme from Canterbury Festival and are looking forward to announcing this year’s Poet Laureate. Join us for a celebratory drink and a few wise words from our new Canterbury Laureate.
Gentlemen of Few | 6:45 pm – 7:30pm | £5
Gentlemen of Few are a four piece Bluegrass-Folk band from Kent. They’ve played sell-out shows at the Astor Theatre, Marlowe Theatre, the Garage London and travel the UK festival circuit playing at Boomtown, Secret Garden Party, Beverley Folk Festival, Lounge on the Farm, and Smugglers Festival to name but a few. Their set contains a mixture of […]
Simon Armitage | Walking Away | 8:00pm – 9:00pm | £10
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his best-selling and prize-winning book Walking Home, restless poet Simon Armitage has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and far from home. In Walking Away, his new bestselling […]
Lamplighters | 9:30pm – 10:30pm | £10
As night falls on the 13th Century Franciscan Chapel, it becomes flooded with the lights and colours of the past and the sounds of the present. For the first time, musicians Richard Navarro (vocals, instruments, loops) and Nicholas Thurston (double bass) perform with magic lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker with songs covering Kent, the […]
Lamplighters | 11:00pm – 12:00am | £10
As night falls on the 13th Century Franciscan Chapel, it becomes flooded with the lights and colours of the past and the sounds of the present. For the first time, musicians Richard Navarro (vocals, instruments, loops) and Nicholas Thurston (double bass) perform with magic lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker with songs covering Kent, the […]