Year: 2024
23 Oct 2024
An Amazing Young Musician’s Bursary Final
We are delighted to Announce the winner of our 2024 Young Musicians’ Bursary Competition Final is Akhilesh Krish Parthiban. Krish…
15 Oct 2024
Poet of the Year Winners and the Judges’ Comments
We are very pleased to announce, for only the second time ever… joint winners of this year’s Poet of the…
11 Oct 2024
Schools’ Poetry Competition Showcase 2024 Winners
The 2024 Canterbury Festival Schools’ Poetry Competition was inspired by this year’s National Poetry Word: COUNTING. In the 2024 Spring…
10 Oct 2024
Beautiful Noise Returns this October!
Join us in venues across the city for a day of community music-making! Youthful local singers aged from 8 to 80, choirs…
10 Sep 2024
Poet of the Year 2024: This Year’s Shortlist
We are pleased to announce this year’s shortlisted poems in the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition. They are: This…
10 Sep 2024
Open Clay, a joyful collaboration!
By Dr Amanda Sefton Hogg, Canterbury Festival Public Engagement Manager In early 2023 I shared the first of many enthusiastic…
29 Aug 2024
Luxmuralis return to Canterbury Festival with Fantastic Tales and Where to Find Them!
Canterbury Festival is proud to once again be working with sound and light artists Luxmuralis on a brand-new outdoor show…
22 Aug 2024
Poet of the Year Competition 2024: Announcing this year’s Longlist
After many weeks of reading, reviewing, deliberating, and discussing over 500 entries received from around the world for this year’s…
22 Aug 2024
Announcing our new Canterbury Festival Director and Chief Executive
The Canterbury Festival is delighted to announce Susannah Stevenson as its next Festival Director and Chief Executive. Susannah is currently…
22 Jul 2024
The 2024 Canterbury Festival programme is here!
Festival Friends’ Priority Booking Opens: Monday 29 July, 11am General Booking Opens: Monday 12 August, 11am Canterbury Festival returns from…