Our Team

We are a very small team supported by wonderful Volunteers our Advisory Board, our Patron, a family of artists and our funders.

Festival Team

Beth Cuenco is the Festival Director, Jane May works alongside Beth on the programme development and is the Artists Liaison. Dan Harding very kindly populates our social media and lets everyone know what we’re up to.

Our Patron

Jane Gardam, O.B.E., distinguished novelist and short story writer, is one of only two authors from Great Britain recently shortlisted for the first and very prestigious Folio Society English Language literary prize open to writers from around the world.

Our Advisory Board

Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music, University of Kent; Sian Stevenson, Master of Keynes College University of Kent and Creative Director StevensonThompson; Bob Jones, Chairman, Canterbury City Partnership; Adelina Comas -Herrera, Research Fellow, London School of Economics. Founding Partner at The Catalan Food and Wine Company; Cathy Westbrook, Artistic Director, Future Dream and Martin Heaney, Lecturer Christ Church University and Co-Director HertsCreation