The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2024 will be launched on Monday 4 March.  The competition has become…

Celebrating art in all its forms, the 2024 Umbrella programme invites submissions from artists and performers based in Canterbury and…

Applications for this year’s Canterbury Festival Visual Arts programme are now open. Artists working in all mediums are invited to…

This spring we are delighted to be selling tickets on behalf of their friends across the City. Canterbury Choral Society…

When I arrived in Canterbury in 2003, I thought, “I’ll give it five years.” I inherited a much-loved Festival whose…

After a career spanning 42 consecutive October festivals since she started volunteering in Belfast in 1981, Rosie Turner is now retiring as…

Alasdair Nicolson has decided that he must withdraw from directing the Canterbury Festival in 2024 and 2025 following a change…

We were delighted to receive the below review of this year’s opening night and Festival by young reporter Cecilia Durio…

We had a wonderful day on Wednesday 25th October at the University of Kent for our one-day professional skills workshop…

We had so much fun on Friday with Clayground Collective, creating a massive cityscape that stretched down Guildhall Street. Inspired…