Year: 2019
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
