Year: 2019
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28 Nov 2019
Calling all artists! T.E.C returns for 2020
T.E.C returns for 2020 – it’s perfect for artists and creatives taking their first steps into community teaching and arts…
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08 Nov 2019
Thank you for an amazing Festival!
This year’s Canterbury Festival was packed full of highlights and stand out performances – we hope you enjoyed it as…
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02 Nov 2019
The Young Musician’s Bursary Competition 2019
The Canterbury Festival Young Musician’s Bursary Competition has grown in popularity each year since its inception in 2011. Winner of…
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20 Oct 2019
Poet of the Year Competition
This year we were absolutely delighted to receive more than 300 entries to the Festival’s Poet of the Year Competition.…
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22 Sep 2019
Poet of the Year Awards: Shortlist revealed
Canterbury Festival’s Poet of the Year Awards evening will take place on Friday 4 October at 7.30pm at Colyer-Fergusson Hall.…
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09 Sep 2019
Jazz and Rock in the Festival
From the exuberance of the massed voices of Rock Choir in the beautiful and atmospheric Spiegeltent to the beguiling vocals…
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09 Sep 2019
Canterbury Festival and Canterbury Christ Church University celebrate ten years of collaboration
Canterbury Festival returns for 2019 with a stellar line-up that celebrates some of the biggest names in music and performance,…
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29 Aug 2019
Brigadier Maurice Atherton CBE
We are sad to record that one of our Vice-Presidents and a great friend of the Festival, Brigadier Maurice Atherton…
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22 Aug 2019
Poet of the Year Awards: Long-list revealed
Canterbury Festival’s Poet of the Year Awards evening will take place on Friday 4 October at 7.30pm at Colyer-Fergusson Hall.…
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21 Aug 2019
Apply now for the Made in Kent Comedy Competition!
Are you as funny as Jack Whitehall? Or perhaps you’re the next Roisin Conaty? If so- read on! Canterbury Festival…