Year: 2020
14 Dec 2020
What instrument should I play?
We are delighted to share our first blog post from this year’s Young Musicians’ Bursary Award Winner Jessica Yuen. You…
30 Nov 2020
Kent College celebrates three-years as Headline Sponsor of Canterbury Festival
Canterbury Festival 2020 succeeded against the odds, delivering over 50 socially distanced events over two weeks from 17 – 31…
28 Nov 2020
Abstract Canterbury winner announced
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s King’s Mile community photo competition, Abstract Canterbury, is Sarah…
03 Nov 2020
New Tricks: Beat This
We are delighted to share this video exploring this year’s New Tricks project – Beat This, a series of drumming…
02 Nov 2020
Talk about the Luck of the Irish…
Festival Director Rosie Turner reflects on the immediate aftermath of this year’s event. The 2020 Canterbury Festival finished its annual…
02 Nov 2020
Gladius: Canterbury and Krakow Tales
Gladius commemorates landmark anniversaries of European significance: the 900th anniversary of St Thomas Becket’s birth and the 850th anniversary of…
30 Oct 2020
Poet of the Year – Judges’ Feedback
The 2020 Poet of the Year Competition was a great success with submissions from poets both national and international. Although…
27 Oct 2020
Young Musicians’ Bursary Competition 2020
This year we marked 10 years of the Musicians’ Bursary Competition, an initiative supported by the Canterbury Festival Foundation. It…
19 Oct 2020
Listen to Tenebrae’s 2020 Festival performance
Tenebrae performed a stunning concert, launching this year’s Canterbury Festival at Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday 17 October. Due to limited…
15 Oct 2020
Tenebrae: Sounds of Solstice to be streamed live
We are just days away from the launch of this year’s Festival and we are delighted to announce that we…
