We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s King’s Mile community photo competition, Abstract Canterbury, is Sarah…

We are delighted to share this video exploring this year’s New Tricks project – Beat This, a series of drumming…

Festival Director Rosie Turner reflects on the immediate aftermath of this year’s event. The 2020 Canterbury Festival finished its annual…

Gladius commemorates landmark anniversaries of European significance: the 900th anniversary of St Thomas Becket’s birth and the 850th anniversary of…

The 2020 Poet of the Year Competition was a great success with submissions from poets both national and international. Although…

This year we marked 10 years of the Musicians’ Bursary Competition, an initiative supported by the Canterbury Festival Foundation. It…

Tenebrae performed a stunning concert, launching this year’s Canterbury Festival at Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday 17 October. Due to limited…

We are just days away from the launch of this year’s Festival and we are delighted to announce that we…

Canterbury Festival has joined forces with community groups, charities, schools, colleges, universities and artists to create a city-wide art exhibition…

We are delighted to announce this year’s Under 18s Poetry Competition winners! From over 1500 submissions and after much deliberation…