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Welcome Welcome to a new-look brochure for this first-time visitors attracted by our glamorous year’s exciting Festival. We hope you Spiegeltent. With an even more varied will find it easy to navigate with plenty of line-up of performances this season we’re PRINCIPAL SPONSOR MEDIA PARTNERS irresistible performances. We are delighted hoping that – wherever you hail from – to be hosting the BAFA Conference you’ll have a fantastic time at Canterbury (British Arts and Science Festivals Festival. Association) whose delegates come to Canterbury from all over the UK. They See you there! join the increasing number of international © Kentish Gazette The official newspaper of Live updates tourists and local residents making up the Rosie Turner Contents 2014 Canterbury Festival at 8.45am and 3.05pm Festival’s audience. Amazingly over 50% Festival Director Portrait SPONSORS of people who attended last year were Festival Highlights 02

Music 04 Canterbury Agency 01227 451088 Performance 18

Talks 31

Science 35

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Walks 42

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Events Grid 50

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Acknowledgments 54 TRUSTS AND PATRONS CORPORATE MEMBERS Map & Venues 55 The John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust Canterbury Christ Church University Jackson-Stops & Staff Purcell Architects & Heritage Consultants The Seary Charitable Trust Canterbury City Partnership John Parker & Sons Ltd Reeves Booking Information 56 Canterbury Festival Foundation (Friends) Clague Kent Office Solutions Sennet Insurance Kent County Councillor Martin Vye Coombs (Canterbury) Ltd The King’s School Tim Stubbings Photography Booking Form 57 Hearbase Lenley’s University of Kent at Canterbury Holiday Inn Express Canterbury NCL & Co Chartered Accountants Year One Consulting Image © Tim Stubbings Furley Page Philip Gambrill & Co 02 Festival Highlights Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Festival Highlights 03

FESTIVAL Talks Science Music HIGHLIGHTS A taster of some of the 2014 Festival Highlights...

Friday 24 October Monday 20 October Wednesday 22 October Wednesday 22 October Saturday 1 November 5.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm

Saturday 18 October 12 noon David Starkey Ruby Wax: Sane New World Hugh Masekela Moulettes Sir Willard White Shirley Hall, The King's School Marlowe Theatre Marlowe Theatre Spiegeltent with Canterbury Choral Society Festival Parade Music and the monarchy through the ages, Comedian turned mental health campaigner, Africa's most famous trumpet player is coming to Enjoy smooth and soulful music in the Spiegeltent, Cathedral Nave From the Cathedral Precincts FREE see p.32 for details. see p.35 for details. Canterbury, see p.07 for details. see p.09 for details. Singing Mendelssohn's Elijah, see p.14 for details

Join the Festival and Espression Arts for the 2014 opening parade. With colour, music and people galore, it's a big street party that will wend its way through Canterbury! The parade ends at Rose Square at approx 1.30pm. Walks Visual Arts Performance

Sunday 19 October 3pm

Festival Evensong Thursday 23 October 15 - 31 October Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October Saturday 25 October Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 October Cathedral Nave FREE 10am 10am-5pm (not Sundays) 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm) 8pm 9.30pm Every year the Festival works closely with the Canterbury's City Wall Circuit In Here Out There Flown Simon Evans Cirque du Cabaret Cathedral throughout the two week period. On The Westgate Cathedral Chapter House Marlowe Theatre Shirley Hall, The King's School Spiegeltent the first Sunday, the Cathedral offers a special A walk around Canterbury's city wall circuit, An exhibition of sculpture, see p.39 for details. Circus extravaganza from Pirates of the Carabina, Comedy from BBC regular and writer of The Way It Is, Circus, burlesque, comedy: perfect Spiegeltent Evensong to celebrate the opening of the Festival. see p.42 for details. see p.25 for details. see p.24 for more details. cabaret, see p.28 for details. 04 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 05

Saturday 18 October 7.30pm Saturday 18 October 9.30pm Sunday 19 October 2pm Sunday 19 October 7.30pm Sunday 19 October 8.30pm

Rachmaninov Vespers Geno Washington Festival Tea Dance Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow Drug Club

Armonico Consort Always ready to rock the house, the King of the The Ragroof Players Tea Dance is a fantastic three- Valeri Polyansky Conductor The Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, also known Berlin Cabaret meets Nuevo Tango over a Gypsy Christopher Monks Director Swingers Geno Washington is the incarnation of all hour participatory event featuring DJs for discerning Natalia Lomeiko Violin as the State Symphony Capella of Russia, was formed in campfire… The darkly comic musical world of Moscow things '60s. Hipsters and flipsters, movers and shakers dancers playing authentic music from the 1920s to 1957. Recognised as one of the finest Russian symphonic Drug Club mixes original material with songs by Armonico Consort Soloists perform the deeply alike, are guaranteed a blast when the Good Time Guru 1950s: vintage costumes; glorious dance displays; the Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet collectives, Valeri Polyansky has been Principal Conductor Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. If ever a moving and reflective ‘All-Night Vigil’, an extraordinary gets his army of fans on ‘the good foot’! The old Geno company’s trademark instant dance classes; and a Overture - Fantasy since 1992. Reviews comment on the close creative unity band were tailor-made to perform in the faded gaudy collection of pieces set to liturgical text from the magic still drags them in and sends them home high. chance for everyone to trip the light fantastic. Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 and mutual understanding between him and the orchestra, glamour of the Spiegeltent – this is it. With great songs, Russian Orthodox Church. As a composer better Everybody welcome, no partners needed – and it won’t Tchaikovsky Marche Slav ‘Polyansky makes the Russian soul vibrate’. a bit of smooch and even a few chuckles you may find known for his large orchestral works and the virtuosity Spiegeltent matter who leads. Sibelius Symphony No 2 (Corriere della Sera, Italy) Moscow Drug Club addictive. of his concertos, the Vespers, for a capella 18 part Tickets £16 (bkg fees apply*) choir, is written in an astounding style which could itself So polish up your dancing shoes and join in. If you Hailed by Lord Menuhin as ‘one of the most brilliant ‘Nothing but praise for your performance, absolutely be described as symphonic. Sublime melodies and Sponsored by fancy it – dress to impress, but it’s not compulsory. of our younger violinists’, Natalia Lomeiko has already knock-out, great musicianship and very entertaining!’ intricate rhythms paired with the colourful Russian text Tea and cakes will be served and the bar will be open established herself as a versatile internationally have made the Vespers timelessly moving, with a truly for those requiring a little Dutch courage to take to the renowned performer and as a Professor at the Royal Spiegeltent unique style of choral writing. As the composer himself floor! College of Music. Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) said, 'Even in my wildest dreams I could not have imagined that I would write such a work.' Spiegeltent In this evening’s programme, Sibelius’ ‘Symphony of This event lasts for 1 hour, without an interval. Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) Independence’ (whether or not a patriotic plea for Finland’s freedom from Russian sanctions on language Cathedral Nave Sponsored by Friends of Canterbury Festival and culture) contrasts beautifully with the lush Russian- Tickets £28, £25, £18, £10 (bkg fees apply*) ness of the other works. A blockbuster of a concert.

Principal Sponsor Marlowe Theatre * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per Tickets £35, £30, £25, £18, £12 (bkg fees apply*) ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 06 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 07

Wednesday 22 October 7.30pm

Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela is a horn player, and Africa’s most important musician. From the early ‘60s jazz scene in New York tutored by Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, to Monterey Festival with Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, his 1968 hit Grazin’ in the Grass toppled the Rolling Stones’ Jumping Jack Flash from the US charts and confirmed his legendary status. His collaboration with Paul Simon on Graceland made him a household name all over the world.

Five decades and over forty albums later he celebrates his 75th birthday on tour with his band. Sounding better Monday 20 October 7.30pm Monday 20 October 8.30pm Music at St Peter's than ever, his over-riding obsession is to show the world St Peter's Methodist Church, Canterbury who Africans really are – through marvellous music. www.musicatstpeters.org.uk Bursary Competition Alister Atkin and Appearing as support is John G Smith (piano). John will be playing tunes from his current project, The Billy Joel Last year’s winner cellist Matthew Roberts joins the The Ghost Line Carnival Wednesday 22 October 7.30 pm Songbook as well as some original compositions and panel of judges for another top quality and fiercely arrangements, accompanied by Don Richardson on competitive final to select the recipient of the valuable Alister Atkin is a master guitar luthier turned performer Piano Trio: bass, and a surprise guest on drums. Festival Foundation Young Musicians' Bursary. Not with his band the Ghost Line Carnival. Comprising Emma Johnson (clarinet) just a challenge of musical artistry, the Bursary winner Russ Grooms (double bass), Lee Cornwall (cajon), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Marlowe Theatre will play an ambassadorial role promoting music to Aidan Shepherd (accordion, piano) as well as two John Lenehan (piano) Tickets £27, £22, £16, £10 (bkg fees apply*) their peers. In addition to stunning performances the members of the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra, judges are also seeking a sparkling personality to win Geoffrey Richardson (viola, mandolin, spoons) and Performing works by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak and the prize. Annie Whitehead (trombone), their music is distinctly Schumann. Sponsored by folk in character and jigs along with rich accordion, St Gregory's Centre for Music fiddle and brass arrangements. Tickets £18, students £9, under 16s free Tickets £10, students £5 (bkg fees apply*) (bkg fees apply*) The band released their new album To Evangeline in March. Based upon Atkin's visits to his wife’s birth place of Nova Scotia, the album is clearly influenced Wednesday 29 October 7.30 pm by the landscape of coastal Canada. Playing on their home turf tonight, the band is excited to be bringing Norma Winstone (vocals) their sea-shanty influenced brand of melodic folk to the Gwylim Simcock (piano) Festival Spiegeltent. Performing an evening of jazz. Spiegeltent Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £18, students £9, under 16s free * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per (bkg fees apply*) ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 08 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 09

Tuesday 21 October 7.30pm Tuesday 21 October 9.30pm Wednesday 22 October 7.30pm Wednesday 22 October 9.30pm Thursday 23 October 9.30pm Friday 24 October 9.30pm

Beethoven and Butterworth Lulo Reinhardt James Rhodes (piano) Moulettes The FB Pocket Orchestra Treetop Flyers

Farewells One of Europe’s finest gypsy guitarists, the grand- James Rhodes is a man on a mission to debunk Moulettes weave folk, pop and classical music to The surprise hit of last year’s Festival, The FB Pocket With their quintessential vintage West Coast sound, it’s nephew of jazz legend Django, Lulo Reinhardt the idea of stuffiness that can surround the world enthralling effect. They have enchanted crowds at Orchestra sashays through hot jazz, blues, ragtime fitting that Treetop Flyers laid down their outstanding Anthony Halliday Piano represents one of the most unique voices in gypsy-jazz of classical music. Everyone should experience its Bestival, Cambridge Folk, Latitude, Cropredy and and the entire Palm Court kit and caboodle. country soul debut in the canyons of Southern Peter Cox Baritone music today. Swinging from tune to tune, Lulo injects splendour. Dubbed ‘the Russell Brand of piano’, the many other prestigious festivals with their charismatic, California. Though based in London, the British five- into his music his gypsy roots as well as flamenco and revolutionary pianist’s number one iTunes debut album, idiosyncratic performances. ‘Atmospheric, yet vibrant, this charming collection of piece swapped urban England for the picturesque Anthony Halliday and Peter Cox first met in a boys’ Latin rhythms from Cuba to Brazil. With a tight band of Razor Blades Little Pills and Big Pianos reflects his songs will make you wish you had been born some beaches and rolling hills of Malibu in order to record choir in Melbourne. Anthony forged a career as excellent players, Lulo Reinhardt puts on a world-class personal struggle with rehab and psych wards. Bach, ‘The best music I heard at Latitude was by the 100 years ago’ (Jazz FM) the classic sounding The Mountain Moves. a pianist becoming ‘one of the great international show guaranteed to enchant any audience. Beethoven and Chopin became his solace. This Moulettes’ (Independent) organists’ (The Leipzig Press) while Peter became an evening James will play works by Schubert, Chopin Perfect Spiegeltent entertainment. Paying their dues to everyone from The Band and Neil opera singer. Together they have planned this special Spiegeltent and Blumenfeld. ‘This delicious music is played with acoustic virtuosity… Young by way of Little Feat and Fleetwood Mac, there programme for Canterbury Festival. Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) Complex and beautiful… intriguing and unique.’ (Mojo) Spiegeltent are also gracious nods towards the more contemporary The first core classical pianist to be signed to the Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) likes of My Morning Jacket, The Coral and Jonathan The first half features works by Beethoven, the Sonata world’s largest rock label, Warner Bros Records, Spiegeltent Wilson. With lyrics of hope, honesty and huge in E flat Lebewohl (Farewell) and the remarkable he’s played the Latitude Festival, sharing stages Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) choruses, their universally reaching songs are strewn and innovative song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To with Florence + the Machine and The National. His with sunshine-infused four-part harmonies, propelled the distant beloved). The second half has a WW1 iconoclastic approach weaves stand-up anecdotes by an irrefutable open-highway groove. theme. George Butterworth was just becoming famous about his life and those of the composers into his as a composer when he was killed by sniper fire at performance, offering an immersive experience that Spiegeltent the Somme. His settings of the Six Songs from a has won him a dedicated new following. Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Shropshire Lad date from 1911/12 and are a curious and wistful pre-echo of the Great War soon to begin Augustine Hall and the idyllic life soon to be lost. Tickets £15, students £8 (bkg fees apply*) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per St Gregory's Centre for Music Supported by The Seary Charitable Trust ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone Tickets £18, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 10 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 11

Sunday 26 October 7.30pm Monday 27 October 7.30pm

Nova Music Ensemble Julian Perkins (clavichord)

Cecilia McDowall Airborne JS Bach French Suites Nos 1,2,3,5 Stephen McNeff Prometheus Drowned Julian Perkins performs widely as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician. George Vass Conductor As a harpsichordist he regularly works with most of the UK’s leading period Richard Williams Director instrument ensembles and is one of only a handful of players to have studied with Trevor Pinnock. Nova Music Ensemble presents a double-bill of chamber operas by living British Saturday 25 October 7.30pm Saturday 25 October 2pm composers. United by their common theme of misadventure, Airborne and Prometheus Julian Perkins has previously performed at the Canterbury Festival with the Drowned make perfect performance partners. Airborne - commissioned from Cecilia esteemed violinist and teacher Carmel Kaine, who died in 2013. Their programme McDowall with libretto by Andy Rashleigh - is a World War I centenary tribute to the included some of J. S. Bach's sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord. This Voces8 – From Nave to Stage Voces8 Workshop forgotten pilots of the Royal Flying Corps (the precursor of the Royal Air Force). concert is dedicated to her memory.

Voces8 is one of the most exciting and versatile vocal groups in the world. This evening’s programme explores Outreach and Education are at the core of Voces8’s Prometheus Drowned is a dark exploration of the strange circumstances The so-called French Suites epitomise domestic music-making chez Bach. Penned the simple beauty of plainsong and the rich harmonies of Rachmaninov, through to the brilliance of the Rat Pack work and they lead an innovative series of workshops surrounding the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley at Livorno in 1822. The piece was possibly as a wedding present for his second wife, Anna Magdalena, these and the Beatles. This multi award-winning and chart-topping ensemble are really at the top of their game and reaching 20,000 people annually. Don’t miss this originally conceived as a ‘Monologue for voice and chamber ensemble’ but the delightful suites exude an intimacy that is ideally suited both to the clavichord the Festival is delighted to host them in the unique setting of Canterbury Cathedral. chance to enjoy their incredible dynamic approach and work now has two characters (a singer and an actor) and has been extended and and this evening's venue. Unlike many of Bach’s keyboard works, many of the sing your heart out. completely re-orchestrated for Nova Music Ensemble’s new stage production. movements in the French Suites evince a gallant quality that demonstrates a mastery ‘The a cappella group Voces8 offers more: an impressive stage presence with imaginative theatricality and a well This evening's cast are Donna Lennard (soprano), Henry Manning (baritone), of the latest musical styles. And, ironically, these suites are as much Italian as they balanced programme.’ (Classical Music Daily) Shirley Hall, Kings School Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano) and Christopher Good (actor). are French! Tickets £4 (bkg fees apply*) Cathedral Nave There will be a pre-show talk with Cecilia McDowall and Stephen McNeff in ‘Julian Perkins gives performances that reach to the heart of the music… effortless Tickets £28, £25, £18, £10 (bkg fees apply*) conversation with Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University) at 6.30pm. virtuosity…’ (International Record Review) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The Colyer-Fergusson Hall St Gregory's Centre for Music maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone Supported by The John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust Sponsored by Tickets £25, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 12 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 13

Monday 27 October 8.30pm Tuesday 28 October 7.30pm Tuesday 28 October 9.30pm Wednesday 29 October 7pm Wednesday 29 October 7.30pm Friday 31 October 7.30pm

KD Jazz & Dance Carmen Hey Harley Hot Potato Syncopators Freddy Kempf (piano) String Fever

Orchestra Mid Wales Opera and Chamber Orchestra Two celebrated singer-songwriters from the USA, A surefire hit with audiences everywhere, The Hot Beethoven Sonata Op 90 This is no ordinary show. The Quartet comprises Lizanne Knott and Bill Reveles work together under Potato Syncopators are the funniest, jazziest and Elgar Echo’s Dance brothers Giles, Ralph, Neal and their cousin Graham, The KD Jazz & Dance Orchestra is a tremendous Nicholas Cleobury Conductor the unlikely moniker Hey Harley. Lizanne – from best dressed comedy band in the Empire! Three Ravel Tombeau de Couperin who perform their unique style of music on five and seven piece Swing Band creating the timeless 'Little Jonathan Miller Director Philadelphia – has an innate ability to capture little eccentric English gentlemen present a rip-roaring Gershwin Rialto Ripples six string custom built electric violins, viola and cello, Big Band' sound. Swing classics, jazz standards with snapshots of life with vivid imagery, and her warm, revue of 1930s jazz presented with phenomenal Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in a potent mix of music and comedy. This fun, fast a touch of Latin and Funk, this groovin’ rhythm section This intense and intimate production of Bizet’s lovely voice will be sure to find you catching a breath, musicianship, visual gags and boundless energy. paced and engaging show combines classically honed and four horn front line will certainly set the Spiegeltent masterpiece is performed in English with a translation shedding a tear, and smiling like there’s no tomorrow. Freddy Kempf is an explosive and physical performer musicianship with style, charisma and humour, and alight. They have played for BBC, the RAF and have by Rory Bremner. The legendary score features Bill Reveles is a native Los Angeles songwriter / singer These hilarious and utterly unique musical maestros as well as a serious, sensitive and profoundly musical spans a wide range of well-known music. even been heard at Claridges. classics such as Habanera and the Toreador Song in / producer / arranger / guitarist. Recently, Bill landed a will transport you to a bygone era with charming songs, artist. His programme this evening contains works a new orchestration by composer Stephen McNeff (see song on the HBO show True Blood to add to his credits novelty moments and hot swinging jazz played on written around the time of World War I encompassing The Quartet perform their unique interpretations of A classy outfit with toe-tapping tempos guarantees a also Nova Music p.11), commissioned especially for on Dawson’s Creek, his four solo albums and work with ukuleles, a tea chest bass and a musical saw. all the nationalities of the Allied Forces. some of the best pop and classical tunes of all time good time. the Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra. LA’s best session players. including a ‘showtunes’ medley, a phenomenal version Top hole entertainment! Freddy’s 2012 recording of Gershwin’s works for of Ravel's Bolero, which features the whole quartet on Spiegeltent This crowd-pleasing favourite offers a chance to ‘Absolutely gorgeous music. We’ve rarely had as big a piano and orchestra was described in the press as one cello at the same time and The History of Music Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) experience at first hand the work of one of the great reaction to any artist in recent years as the one we had Spiegeltent ‘beautiful, stylish, light, and elegant’ while his 2011 in Five Minutes - 40 popular tunes packed into an opera directors of recent years, Jonathan Miller, who for Lizanne Knott.’ (Bob Harris BBC Radio 2) Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) solo recital disc of Rachmaninov, Bach/Busoni, Ravel incredible five minute finale! will be speaking about his life and work in the final and Stravinsky, was praised for its ‘wonderful delicate Festival Talk (see p.33). With the dynamic Nicholas Spiegeltent Sponsored by playing and fine sense of style’ (BBC Music Magazine). ‘They’re a little bit classical, a little bit rock n roll, also Cleobury at the baton, this will be a stirring emotional Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) humorous and a whole lot entertaining’ treat for opera lovers and first-timers alike. Shirley Hall, The King’s School (The Cayman Compass) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per Tickets £18, students £10 (bkg fees apply*) ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The Theatre Royal Margate Shirley Hall, The King’s School maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone Tickets £25, £20, £15 (bkg fees apply*) Sponsored by Tickets £18, students £10 (bkg fees apply*) or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 14 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Music 15

Daytime Concerts at the Spiegeltent

Enjoy a range of music throughout the day; from Broadway classics to Louisiana blues, the ornate and atmospheric Spiegeltent is the perfect place to enjoy a coffee and relax for an hour.

Sunday 19 October 11am Friday 31 October 9.30pm Saturday 1 November 7.30pm Saturday 1 November 9.30pm Every Monday and Friday during the Festival, the Schools Katie Bradley & Sophie Smiles Spiegeltent hosts music concerts in conjunction with Since releasing her debut album, She’s Ready, last year, Katie Bradley the Festival’s Principal Sponsor, Canterbury Christ at the Gentlemen of Few Canterbury Choral Society Danny & the Champions of (vocals, harmonica) has had a meteoric rise to the forefront of the Church University. Spiegeltent Canterbury Philharmonic Orchestra British Blues scene. With her soaring voice and soulful blues harp, she Monday 20 October 10.30am Gentlemen of Few are Elliott Norris, Reece Forward, the World is joined by multi instrumentalist and vocalist Sophie Smiles (piano). Enjoy FREE lunchtime concerts Jarrod Piner and Kit Evans, three of whom currently Richard Cooke Conductor Expect great female vocals, harmonica, rhythm and blues, Louisiana Coffee-Time Jazz One by talented local musicians. study Music Performance at Canterbury College. They Mary Bevan Soprano Danny & the Champions of the World has always funk, soul and jazz! Cool classics, funky covers and original compositions. fuse an old time bluegrass sound with a youthful Catherine King Mezzo-soprano been a pretty loose collection of great musicians, Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) Friday 24 October 1pm Monday 20 October 1pm English vigour, impeccable harmonies and song craft Benjamin Hulett Tenor songwriters, stowaways and adventurers. This English/ way beyond their years. This year, the Gentlemen were Willard White Bass Americana outfit's current line-up comprises Danny Broadway Choir and friends Canterbury Academy Saturday 25 October 11am finalists in the Radio 2 Young Musicians’ Folk Award – George Wilson (acoustic guitar, lead vocals), Chris The University’s musical theatre vocal ensemble Tuesday 21 October 1pm a sure sign of further greatness to come. Sir Willard White will provide an imposing and impressive Clarke (bass, vocals), Paul Lush (guitar, vocals), Top Choir Kent: Cantate performs Broadway hits and West End showstoppers. dimension to the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Steve Brookes (drums, vocals) and Geoff Widdowson Cantate is a 35-voice strong choir from Sevenoaks which draws its Simon Langton Grammar Monday 27 October 10.30am ‘Mighty impressive’ (Smugglers) Canterbury Cathedral this evening. Elijah endures as (saxophone, organ, vocals). Blues, country, gospel, singers from the North West Kent area to perform a wide range of School for Boys one of the favourite large-scale works for choir and rock – the whole shebang. music. The choir is appearing at the Canterbury Festival this year after Music Society Showcase Wednesday 22 October 1pm Spiegeltent orchestra among choirs and audiences alike – winning the Top Choir Kent competition in April. The programme will The best of the newly-founded Christ Church Music Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) a dramatic biblical saga full of power and intensity, Spiegeltent include sacred and secular music, English madrigals, romantic part- Society take to the stage, featuring the Society’s Pops Barton Court immersed in one of Mendelssohn’s most colourful scores. Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) songs and jazz favourites. Orchestra. Sponsored by Thursday 23 October 1pm Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) Friday 31 October 10.30am Sir Willard will be joined by an outstanding team of Kent College soloists, and with Canterbury Choral Society's reputation Why not stay on after Danny & the Champions of the Coffee-Time Jazz Two Sunday 26 October 11am for excellence, this will be a not-to-be-missed occasion. World for Late Night at the Spiegeltent – DJs Cool classics, funky covers and original compositions. will play a great mix of tunes from across the genres so Brigitte Baden-Rennie Cathedral Nave come and dance the night away in the Spiegeltent! Chanteuse Brigitte Baden-Rennie performs each song with skill, All tickets are £5 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £30, £26, £22, £18, £12 (bkg fees apply*) perfect diction and a mature voice whilst bringing her own wit to her * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per Saturday 1 November 11pm choices. A cabaret celebration of female lyricists including Peggy Lee, Principal Sponsor Sponsored by ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The Spiegeltent Carole King, Laura Nyro, Francesca Blumenthal, Blossom Dearie, Fran maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) Landesman and Jackie Trent. or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) 16 Music Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk

Department of Music and Performing Arts: Concerts and Events

Free lunchtime performances at St Gregory’s Centre for Music, North Holmes Road (unless otherwise stated) at 1.10pm. For further information please visit www.canterbury.ac.uk/events or call 01227 782428. Principal Sponsor Canterbury Christ Church University is proud to be partner and principal sponsor Monday 20 October Thursday 23 October Tuesday 28 October Automatronic: New Music for Organ and Christ Church Clarinet Trio Dance and Music Collaboration of Canterbury Festival Electronics David Campbell, Margaret Archibald and Paul Canterbury Dance Company collaborates with Automatronic is a collective that seeks to explore, Bourdillon, with Jonathan Duke (piano), perform student musicians to create intriguing and commission, promote and perform new music for the works by Bouffil, Waterson, Gershwin, Milhaud inspiring interpretations in sound and movement. unique combination of organ and electronics. Including and Debussy. Choreography by Angela Pickard. Paintings Canterbury Christ Church University has an new works by Lauren Redhead and international Friday 24 October Wednesday 29 October artistically vibrant, academically inspiring and composer-collaborators Huw Morgan and Michael JOHN COPNALL socially engaging arts and culture programme, Bonaventure. (Please note this event is taking place in Piano in the Woods University Chamber Choir © Image: John Copnall Stripes (1971), AcrylicImage: on canvas, © John Copnall courtesy Stripes (1971), the artist’s estate which makes a vital contribution towards the University Chapel.) In May 2013 Sam Bailey placed a piano in private The University’s flagship choir, conducted by David woodland near Canterbury. Over the course of Allinson, presents superb choral music drawn from producing some of the most talented and Tuesday 21 October 27 September - 1 November 2014 a year he returned to the piano monthly, joined the Renaissance to the present day, with vocal solos expressive minds coming into the modern cultural Christ Church Piano Quintet by a range of musicians, poets, photographers, showcasing best current students. and media industries of today. Schubert, Quintet in A Major D667 (‘Trout’) filmmakers and dancers, improvising and Thursday 30 October Sidney Cooper Gallery This chamber masterpiece in five movements is responding to the changing environment. This performed by teaching staff from the Department of performance, directed by Angela Pickard, uses Composers’ Competition St Peter’s Street, Canterbury CT1 2BQ Email us at [email protected] Music and Performing Arts: Matthew Shipton (piano), images and sound generated during the project Showcasing the wide diversity of composition within Erica Buurman (viola), Elina Hakanen (violin), Julia as the basis for improvised music and dance. the Department of Music and Performing Arts, from Vohralik (cello) and Robert Rawson (double bass). (Please note this event is taking place in Anselm chamber music to songwriting, surround sound Studio 1). installations and more. Wednesday 22 October Commercial Music ‘unplugged’ Monday 27 October Friday 31 October Staff on the University’s Commercial Music programme Ensemble Showcase 'Le jardin féerique': Piano Duets Gallery open: Tue - Fri 10.30am - 5pm | Sat 11.30am - 5pm perform acoustic arrangements of pop, rock and blues The cream of current and recent students in Christ Church staff accompanists, David Knotts and Free admission classics, including Simon Foster (vocals), Izzy Chase- brilliant vocal and instrumental ensembles ranging Helen Crayford, celebrate the world of four hands Philmore (vocals), Lawrie Bolton (piano), James Dean from wind groups to barbershop quartets. at one piano in a varied programme of music by (guitar), Steve Rickwood (bass) and Jason McCluskey Schubert, Ravel, Debussy and Walton. www.canterbury.ac.uk /sidney-cooper (drums/percussion).

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A series of events taking place during half term week in the Spiegeltent suitable Look out for the Family Friendly symbol throughout the brochure: for example, circus extravaganza Flown (p.25) Family Friendly Events for all the family. Tickets are £6 – for everyone over 1! and the European premiere of Casus’ new show Finding the Silence (p.23).

Saturday 25 October Sunday 26 October Monday 27 October Tuesday 28 October Wednesday 29 October Thursday 30 October Friday 31 October Saturday 1 November 2pm 3pm 2pm 2pm 2pm 2pm 2pm 2pm

Comedy Club for Tolu Lissa & Nee Nee’s Albert Einstein: The Magical El The Country Owl Stones & Bones Baby Loves

Kids Three friends left to their own devices Riverside Adventure Relativitively Baldiniho presents and the City Squirrel Find out all about archaeology and Halloween Disco Like the name says, it’s a Comedy Club discover each other’s likes, dislikes, Lissa and Nee Nee’s Riverside Speaking ‘Junior Totes Amazebald! fossils, say hello to one of your stone- for Kids! Cracking entertainment for strengths and weaknesses, joyfully Adventure is an all-singing, all-dancing, Tony the Owl lives in the countryside. age ancestors, hear stories of giants After last year’s sell-out event, Baby everyone over six years old and under told through circus, dance and play. high energy, family friendly musical Edition’ Comedy magician and general goofball He’s really happy in his little garden and wizards, see a volcano erupting Loves Disco is back with Boogie 400 years old (no vampires please!). We Watch these unlikely characters twist, adventure. Using the Brisbane River Full details on p.37 (Science). El Baldiniho is back with his latest until Joe and Charlotte turn up. They’ve before your very eyes, and maybe even Halloween! Get on the dance floor have the best comedians from the UK flip, spiral, balance, jump and climb. as their inspiration this show features hour of under-rehearsed magic japes. moved from the city for a quieter life and glimpse a dinosaur or two… There will for some shiny happy toddler-friendly and world circuit doing what they do Energetic, lyrical and thrilling, this fun-filled jazz numbers, magical nursery [Suitable 6+] Prepare to be amazed by his lack of to make matters worse, they’ve brought be thrills and spills galore, but also lots Halloween fun, with prizes for the most best, but without the rude bits! special show for children by Australian rhymes and rocking originals. Delight for magical prowess, gaze in wonder as Mike the Squirrel with them. He’s loud, of laughs, plenty of puppets, songs, groovy Halloween outfits. Come join the acrobats Casus will leave you and your the young and the young at heart! Spiegeltent he stops half way through each trick to he’s cheeky and he likes to party. slapstick, tall tales and crazy characters party at the funkiest club in town! [Suitable 6+] family on the edge of your seat Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) read the instructions and marvel at his Featuring puppetry and original music, – all presented in that unique Squashbox wanting more. [Suitable 1-6] inability to remember a simple script. this is a story about making friends, Theatre style! [Suitable all ages] Spiegeltent being different and why that’s OK. Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) NB. Please note later start time. Spiegeltent [Suitable 7+] [Suitable 5+] Spiegeltent Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in [Suitable 3+] Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) [Suitable 5+] person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: Spiegeltent Spiegeltent 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) Spiegeltent Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) Spiegeltent fee you will be charged when booking by Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 20 Performance Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Performance 21

Tuesday 21 October 7.30pm

Simon Callow in The Man Jesus

This extraordinary play looks back two thousand years to witness key moments in the life of The Man Jesus, through the eyes of the people who knew him.

Saturday 18 October 7pm Saturday 18 October 7.30pm Monday 20 October 7.30pm Simon Callow, one of Britain's best-loved actors, performs this fresh and moving account of biblical stories including the raising of Lazarus, the wedding Cabaret Fantastique The Strange Case of The Pyramids of Margate at Cana and the journey to Jerusalem. His powerful portrayal of the tyrants, traitors and madmen in Jesus’ For one night only, Marcel Lucont – raconteur, bon Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Thanet Council employee David dreams of succeeding life asks people of all faiths and none: what sort of a viveur and the best thing to come out of France in his Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and of man was able to inspire the history of the world? since croissants, presents Cabaret Fantastique. A The respectable Dr Jekyll reveals his strange finding earthly happiness in the arms of the beautiful variety show of glitz, gorgeousness and great talents – association with the mysterious Edward Hyde and Polish girl from the Accounts Department. Little Thought-provoking, thrilling and full of wit, this personally selected for your delectation by the French the shocking truth about his identity: that Hyde is the does he know that on a seemingly mundane Monday production premiered to great acclaim at Belfast’s flaneur. Dragged from the dressing rooms of Paris and very definition of evil. Combining edge-of-your-seat evening in Margate all his obsessions are about to Lyric Theatre, and now embarks on a strictly limited London, thrust on stage under the twinkle of a mirror thrills with stunning physical theatre, Robert Louis collide in ways that could change everything forever. UK tour. ball – expect laughs and a few surprises! Stevenson’s classic ‘bogey tale’ is bought chillingly to life in this award-winning one man show. Journey into the twilight spaces between science ‘Callow renews our sense of wonder at the Son of Man ‘Debaucherous, delightful and debonair, Marcel fiction and science fact on board this thrilling sci-fi and his story.’ (Daily Telegraph) Lucont knows how to put on one hell of a Brother Wolf is the production company of James tragicomedy, as The Pyramids of Margate now invade show’ (PerthNow, Fringe World Australia) Hyland, whose previous performances of Fagin’s Canterbury! Last Hour and A Christmas Carol by Jacob Marley Marlowe Theatre [Suitable 16+] (deceased) at the Festival were met with excellent A Gulliver Bell Production, written and performed by Tickets £25 (bkg fees apply*) reviews. Martin Stewart. Spiegeltent Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) ‘Powerful, intense, spellbinding and disturbing’ St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre (The Yorkshire Times) Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Sponsored by Image © Steffan Hill [Suitable 12+]

St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 22 Performance Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Performance 23

Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 October 7pm (Sunday 6pm)

Finding the Silence

As humans we’re always searching for that elusive silence, that peace, that moment of pure clarity, but does it really exist?

By testing their individual vulnerabilities, emotions and real fears, Casus truly search to find the absence of sound. Encounters, both alone and together, form the path of this restless exploration of unique and rigorously refined physicality.

After last year’s phenomenal run of Knee Deep, the Festival is delighted to be presenting the European premiere of Casus’ Tuesday 21 October 7pm Wednesday 22 October 7.30pm Thursday 23 October 8pm brand new show – don’t miss it!

Spiegeltent Jerk The Unremarkable Death Barbed Wire for Kisses Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*)

Using magnificent physical and considerable dramatic of Marilyn Monroe With the passing of the last survivors, the events of the skills to tell an apparently simple story in a dozen Overdosed on pills, the woman behind the icon Great War are slipping beyond human memory. In a different ways, this is an intimate journey of a woman at unravels her remarkable life and bares all, revealing powerfully moving performance, acclaimed storytellers the edge; falling forward into the unknown, or perhaps, a biting intelligence, a frustrated talent and an Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey and musicians John jerking back to the familiar. imperfect body. Dipper and James Patterson tell of ‘the war to end all wars’ through the stories of the families in one small Performed by Emma Serjeant (Casus) and directed Dyad Productions (Austen’s Women and I, Elizabeth) Lincolnshire village. Personal accounts of life and by John Britton (Duende-ensemble), Casus bring their returns to the Festival with this stark confessional – death and the memories of families at home open a premier solo work to the stage in a provocative and DiMaggio, Gable, Miller, Hyde, her mother, it’s all deeply human window onto the trauma that shaped exquisite piece of circus theatre and dance. here. This show offers a radical interpretation of the the 20th Century. Hollywood legend that was Marilyn Monroe and leads ’Serjeant has an overflowing bag of acrobats’ and us, in real time, to the very moment of her death. Nick Hennessey and Hugh Lupton delved into the sometimes contortionists’ tricks at her disposal and Lincolnshire Archives to research real stories of you’re constantly amazed, captivated and entertained St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre Lincolnshire residents during the First World War. by how she uses them’ (The West Australian) Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) They weave a series of verbatim extracts from letters through the performance, which blends historical fact Spiegeltent with empathetic invention. James Patterson and Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) John Dipper blend classic folk songs with newly composed music. Sponsored by Cathedral Lodge Tickets £12, students £9 (bkg fees apply*) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 24 Performance Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Performance 25

Friday 24 - Saturday 25 October 7.30pm (Sat Matinee 2.30pm)

Flown

Pirates of the Carabina Presented by Crying Out Loud

Get ready for a captivating night at the circus packed with thrills, extraordinary feats, laughs and fantastic live music. A stunning troupe of acrobats, aerialists, daredevil stuntmen and musicians are going to put on a jaw- dropping spectacle for you.

Thursday 23 October 7.30pm Friday 24 October 7.30pm Saturday 25 October 8pm But there’s a problem; no one is prepared and mishaps, disasters and disagreements threaten to wreck the show. A flying aerialist is still ironing her dress, a cranky Inside Dylan Thomas: Simon Evans diva gets tangled in the rigging, and is that one of the stuntmen dangling from the lighting bar? Catastrophe is Inspired by astonishing true stories, Inside is a Return Journey Star of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week and a just one wrong move away. psychological drama that explores the effects of familiar voice on BBC Radio 4, Simon is a regular on Stockholm Syndrome on a kidnap victim desperate Heralded by critics worldwide as a ‘lyrical tour-de- The News Quiz, The Unbelievable Truth, Armando Flown is confidently choreographed chaos as the to keep hope. Locked in a basement for 12 years, force’, Bob Kingdom gives an electrifying performance Iannucci’s Charm Offensive and anchored and wrote performers fly, fling, spin and swing across the set she has survived physical and psychological abuse as writer and poet Dylan Thomas in the final days of seven series' of the news satire The Way It Is. in perfect time. It’s big, beautiful and bonkers, an by escaping to her childhood and recording video his life. This is the farewell tour of Anthony Hopkins’ experience for everyone to treasure. messages to her Mum. Now, reeling from her latest directorial debut, re-conceived for the 100th anniversary Like most men of his age and delusion, Simon Evans beating and in the most critical hour of her captivity, of Wales’ roistering, drunken and damned poet. dreams of striking out into the wild and slipping the ‘Exquisite moments of beauty…brilliantly athletic.’ the victim discovers that not everything she's been surly bonds of suburbia. He remembers, inaccurately, a (The Guardian) told is true. But to find a way out, she'll have to break Over 80,000 people around the world have enjoyed youth spent drifting through the great European arterial through something much stronger than just the this critically acclaimed production which has included transport thoroughfares, bonding with truck drivers and basement door. sell-out seasons at London’s Lyric Hammersmith, Off the occasional foreign legionnaire deserter, living on Marlowe Theatre Broadway, Edinburgh’s Assembly and The Sydney his wits (which is to say, thieving) and waking up each Tickets £20, £17.50, £15 (bkg fees apply*) ‘One of the most unforgettable pieces of theatre… Opera House. day with the sunrise. He remembers, and he yearns. Students/U16s £15 all seats haunting, intimate and devastating drama’ So what does Simon do, in an effort to reconnect with (Broadway Baby) {Suitable 10+} the spontaneity of his former, unburdened self? He Special matinee only Family Ticket £60 buys a dog. Idiot. (2 adults 2 children) St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Shirley Hall, The King's School Sponsored by Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) Sponsored by

* Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 26 Performance Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Performance 27

Image © Nigel Hillier Image © Guto

Saturday 25 October 7.30pm Saturday 25 October 9.30pm Sunday 26 October 8.30pm Tues 28 October - Sat 1 November 7.30pm (Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm) A November Day Bourgeois & Maurice Sweet, Sour & Saucy Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby In forgotten boxes in an attic a woman discovers the story of her grandfather, a Riding the zeitgeist in unmatchable style since 2007, the UK’s sharpest, darkest Framed within a 1950s Australian talkback radio love show hosted by Barry and survivor of the First World War, and his unexpected encounter with a stray dog who musical siblings Bourgeois & Maurice descend on Canterbury Festival for a night of Barbara, Sweet, Sour & Saucy includes songs by Eartha Kitt, Louis Armstrong, Ella Discover the heady, indulgent days of New York’s Long Island during the glamorous knew no boundaries. With evocative puppet characters, live music and an ever- scabrous satire and skin-tight catsuits. Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Nat King Cole and more. 1920s as Northern Ballet brings F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel to the stage. changing set, Thingumajig Theatre presents a timeless fable on war and the miracle of friendship when all else seems lost. Expect rarely-heard old songs, often-heard newer songs and never-ever heard Performed by high calibre singer/musicians and cabaret performers Antony ‘Tnee’ Nick Carraway comes to know his infamous neighbour Jay Gatsby – a mysterious brand new numbers, with subjects ranging from the feel-numb joys of Ritalin to the Dyer and Melissa Western, this show features fresh, energetic interpretations of millionaire with a secret past and a penchant for lavish parties and beautiful women. Thingumajig launched this revised version of the piece to mark the 100th anniversary feel-bad addictions of social networks. jazz standards. This is the perfect mix for a festival show combining virtuosic piano As the sparkling façade of Gatsby’s world begins to slip, Carraway comes to see the of the outbreak of World War One. Although family members who served in the war playing, strong and sultry vocals, rich harmonies and inventive accompaniment loneliness, obsession and tragedy that lies beneath. are no longer around to bear witness to what they went through, this play gently This one-night-only extravaganza offers newcomers the perfect introduction to the (ukulele, washboard, spoons, trombone kazoo, tap dancing and more). looks at the legacy of their generation, and how we carry on remembering them. cult of B&M and gives long-time fans the chance to hear all their favourite tunes in The seductive style of the era is recreated through stunning sets and costumes with one hyper-charged, hyperactive, hyper-weird night. Grab a drink and enjoy this show in the unique atmosphere of the Festival music by Academy Award nominated and BAFTA winning composer Sir Richard A November Day was originally created in 2008 in association with The Imperial War Spiegeltent. Rodney Bennett CBE (Four Weddings And A Funeral), played live by Northern Ballet Museum North. [Suitable 16+] Sinfonia. Spiegeltent [Suitable 10+] Spiegeltent Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) Marlowe Theatre Tickets £14 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £39.50 £35, £31.50, £26, £20.50 (bkg fees apply*) St Mary's Hall Studio Theatre Sponsored by Thur mat £31.50, £27, £24.50, £20, £17 Tickets £15, students £12 (bkg fees apply*) Why not stay on after Bourgeois & Maurice for Late Night at the Spiegeltent Sponsored by where DJs will play a great mix of tunes from across the genres so come and dance the night away in the Spiegeltent!

Saturday 25 October 11pm * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per Spiegeltent ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 28 Performance Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Performance 29

Tuesday 28 October 7pm Wednesday 29 October 8pm Wed 29 - Thurs 30 October 9.30pm Thursday 30 October 7pm Friday 31 October 7pm Saturday 1 November 7pm

Stephen Frost's Improv The Canterbury Laureates Cirque du Cabaret Mat Ricardo: Showman Marcel Lucont Tina C:

Allstars Variety Show The Gentleman Juggler returns to Canterbury by As seen on Sky Atlantic's Set List, BBC3's Russell The Empire Strikes Back For the past four years, with support from Canterbury popular demand after his performance in Gilded Lili's Howard's Good News and Live At The Electric, Presented by Christopher Green Four brave performers arrive with no script and not City Council, the Festival has appointed a Laureate to London’s longest running cabaret show Cirque Variety Show last year. Following a triumphant run at Marcel Lucont is the self-proclaimed best French the faintest idea of what will happen. Willed on by a champion the spoken and written word in Canterbury, du Cabaret (formerly The Tassel Club) comes to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 & a sell-out season in the comedian playing in Britain. This is a modern man's Country music singer and comedienne Tina C is one supportive crowd (that’s you!), through improvisation and to create new work in response to the City. Now all Canterbury for the first time. Performed in the round, West End, Mat Ricardo brings a show packed full of majestic musings on mortality, morality, masculinity of the entertainment greats, with songs like If You Can’t they create sketches and comic dramas that are four title-holders appear together to perform some of in the glorious Spiegeltent, the show blends stylish big laughs, serious skills and breathtaking spectacle. and, moreover, Marcel Lucont, multi award-deserving Live Without Me (Why Weren’t You Dead When I Met amazingly inventive and sometimes take off into flights the wonderful writing catalysed by their experience. cabaret, comedy, live music, circus and burlesque. See genuine danger, dexterous elegance, and thrills, maverick. You?). But she’s bemused by the Commonwealth. Is of surreal brilliance. Acts will include former Cirque de Soleil star Yusura performed by a man at the top of his game. it just the British Empire after a focus group? Why do The Laureates are Patricia Debney, Patience Circus (Japan), comedy from London’s celebrated Abi Having seen his superb Cabaret Fantastique (p.20) they play Games? And why in Scotchland? She’s Stephen Frost's Improv Allstars grew out of the popular Agbabi, Sarah Salway and Dan Simpson – and as a Collins and live music from Elle and the Pocket Belles 'Incredible skills. Engaging and funny.' (The Scotsman) earlier in the Festival, don’t miss the opportunity to see investigating for BBC Radio 4, but come see her live TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the Allstars popular Liverpudlian celebrity might quip, ‘That’s a (UK). this unique comedian alone on stage. for the full breadth of her wisdom on the future as laid troupe has played festivals all over the world. Stephen lorra Laureates!’ A great night of poetry, prose and Spiegeltent out in her hit Common Feel The Wealth. Frost has been part of hit TV shows such as Saturday performance not to be missed. Naughty, but nice! Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) ‘Gag after consistent gag... the quality doesn't dip Live, The Young Ones and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. once...as smooth and consistent as a fine silky brie’ Tina opened the Festival Spiegeltent last year to great Stephen has also acted in Blackadder and in Mr Cathedral Lodge [Suitable 16+] Sponsored by (List) acclaim – if you missed her then, don’t miss her again. Bean Rides Again in addition to performing at many Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Expect laughs, songs and a world view that will take Edinburgh Festivals and acting on the stages of the Spiegeltent [Suitable 16+] your breath away. West End. Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) Spiegeltent Spiegeltent Spiegeltent Sponsored by Tickets £12 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) Sponsored by

Sponsored by * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Talks 31

Sponsored by Talks take place in Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, within the Cathedral Precincts. Talks An exception is the Talk by David Starkey on Friday 24 October which will take place in Shirley Hall, The King’s School at 5.30pm. Talks last for approximately 1 hour.

Monday 20 October 5.30pm Tuesday 21 October 5.30pm Wednesday 22 October 5.30pm

Kent College We can help with the Monty Halls Jonathan Foyle John Campbell Canterbury Wildlife & Adventure Broadcasting and Writing Stones, Bones and Thrones: the Design of Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life whole journey from 3 - 18 12th Century Canterbury Cathedral An outstanding school for boys and girls aged 3 - 18 A fast, funny and dynamic speaker, Monty Halls’ One of the country’s leading political biographers, great passion is leadership, team dynamics and the The eastern end of Canterbury Cathedral was famously John Campbell has written about Edward Heath and effects of stress on human beings. After the Royal rebuilt after a fire in 1174, following the martyrdom of Margaret Thatcher (The Grocer’s Daughter and The Marines, he became an Explorer and a successful Becket. It is sometimes called the first great ‘Gothic’ Iron Lady). His latest highly acclaimed work, Roy documentary maker. From the remote communities of church in England – but is that correct? Architect, art Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life covers his subject’s long Come and see for yourself the West of Scotland to the Nyika Plateau in Africa, and historian, broadcaster and Chief Executive of the World career from the age of Attlee to Blair, as well as the most recently the Great Barrier Reef, Monty’s vividly Monuments Fund Britain, Dr Jonathan Foyle dissects prolific writing and unconventional private life of the illustrated stories take us to the uttermost ends of the what the Cathedral’s architecture tells us about man widely regarded as the best Prime Minister we Senior School Open Day October 4th 2014 9:00am - 12:30pm earth without leaving our seats. Canterbury’s self-image, and how it was received by never had. the next generation of cathedral builders. Cathedral Lodge Cathedral Lodge Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Presented in association with RIBA, Canterbury branch. Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*)

Cathedral Lodge Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per Senior School 01227 763231 ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone Junior School 01227 762436 RATED or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. www.kentcollege.com SCHOOL GUIDE 32 Talks Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Talks 33

Thursday 23 October Friday 24 October Monday 27 October Tuesday 28 October Wednesday 29 October Thursday 30 October Thursday 30 October Friday 31 October 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 3pm – 4.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm

A.N. Wilson David Starkey David Gems Jan Piggott Jessica Fellowes An Audience with Henry Sandon Jonathan Miller

Victoria – A Life Music and Monarchy Can We Cure Ageing? Shackleton and Endurance: A Year in the Life of Henry Sandon Potaholic Subsequent Performances The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Downton Abbey Celebrated novelist and award-winning Following his compelling book and The received wisdom from medicine is Expedition 1914-17 In an exclusive event in association On track as a career musician and Jonathan Miller is regularly described biographer A.N. Wilson’s meticulously television series on the subject, Dr that ageing is a natural and essentially Author, journalist and broadcaster with Festival Sponsor The Canterbury broadcaster, Henry Sandon became as a genius, a polymath or Renaissance researched latest work explores the David Starkey reflects on how music benign process that brings life to a The Endurance sank, crushed in the Jessica Fellowes is the niece of Auction Galleries, pottery and porcelain a self-confessed Potaholic upon man – so multifarious are his interests life and loves of Queen Victoria during has underpinned the monarchy since close and acts for the good of the ice, before the expedition set foot Downton’s creator, Julian Fellowes, with expert Henry Sandon will discuss and discovering Medieval and Roman and talents. His medical career was her 64 years on the throne. He sets her the composer Kings Henry V and species. Although, unfortunately, the on the continent. Shackleton made two world-wide companion bestsellers value a number of antiques chosen pottery in his garden. Curator of unexpectedly interrupted by the personal story against the backdrop VIII, through to the twentieth century process is accompanied by diseases the famous open-boat journey in the to her credit. Jessica’s latest work from those contributed by the audience. Worcester Porcelain Company for 17 success of the radio show Beyond of this momentous political epoch in coronations and national ceremonies such as Alzheimer's and cancer, James Caird over the winter waters focuses on the major events and Auction Galleries’ staff will accept years, a friendship with Arthur Negus the Fringe. There followed a hugely Britain – and Europe’s – history. Drawing where Britain’s musical voice is heard ageing itself is not a disease. But many on the South Atlantic to save the crew seasons of the Great House. How does portable ceramic items from 2pm, led to Going for a Song and The successful career in writing, presenting on (literally) thousands of letters never in the repertoire of royal classics. scientists studying the biology of ageing marooned on Elephant Island. In this Mrs Patmore keep the menus varied? strictly limited to one item per ticket Antiques Roadshow. Henry has even for television (The Body in Question) before published, he describes the Delivered with his characteristic pithy now view it as an entirely pathological illustrated lecture marking the centenary How do the gardeners keep the estate holder. Time will not allow Henry to been immortalised by Staffordshire and directing for theatre and opera. This process of getting to know Victoria as and controversial fluency – expect process, and therefore one for which of this greatest of all adventures, Dr Jan beautiful all year round? And how does review every item – the choice is his as pottery as a Toby Jug …because they year he will have directed She Stoops ‘one of the most joyous experiences of verbal fireworks among the melodies! treatments should be sought. Professor Piggott reflects on the stirring story and Anna care for Lady Mary’s dresses? to which ones make the spotlight. said he looked like one! Charming and to Conquer at RADA and Carmen for my life.’ David Gems of the Institute of Healthy the character of The Boss. amusing anecdotes from this national Mid Wales Opera (see p.12 for details Please note change of venue. Ageing at University College London Jessica shares her research into the AV theatre, Cathedral Lodge treasure should be priceless. of the Festival performance). Allegedly Cathedral Lodge will discuss recent progress in research Cathedral Lodge social history of the early 20th century, Tickets £15 (bkg fees apply*) he bitterly regrets his change of tack, Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Shirley Hall, The King’s School on the biology of ageing, including Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) particularly the changes that women Only 40 tickets available Cathedral Lodge although he remains immersed in both Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) the causes, and the development of were experiencing, through the well- Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Science and the Arts. He was knighted possible treatments. known characters both above and in 2003. below stairs. Cathedral Lodge Cathedral Lodge * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Cathedral Lodge £9 (bkg fees apply*) person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Science 35 Digibury Weekender Sponsored by Science

Canterbury Festival is delighted to be working in partnership with the inaugural Digibury Weekender – a one-day technology and digital festival. The event features talks, demos, debates and discussions all about the stuff that makes us go 'wow'.

There will be short ‘lightning’ talks from the local community When: Saturday 18 October and debates focusing on innovation. The Festival will also Time: 10am - 5.30pm explore the wider impact technology has on society and Location: Gulbenkian, University of Kent, culture. With inspirational talks from rockstar leaders Canterbury, CT2 7NB including Microsoft, Digibury Weekender is open to all and will Ticket price: £10 showcase world-changing ideas – right here in Canterbury!

Ticket info: Gulbenkian Box Office Image © Steve Ullathorne 01227 769075 [Please note that tickets for Digibury Weekender are only available via the Website: www.digibury.co.uk Gulbenkian Box Office] Sunday 19 October 3pm Monday 20 October 7.30pm

The Gastronaut’s Edible Bug Show Ruby Wax

CBBC’s Gastronaut Stefan Gates has got crickets, locusts and mealworms both live Sane New World and ready-to-eat, courtesy of Crunchy Critters, the UK’s premier supplier of edible insects. You can meet his very jumpy live insects and then taste some cooked ones. Comedienne Ruby Wax has turned mental health campaigner having gained a If you think you’d never eat anything so disgusting, be prepared for some bizarre Masters Degree in Mindfullness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford. This show revelations. And if you’re still squeamish, consider the question, ‘How are we going is based on her critically acclaimed book Sane New World which helps us to to feed 9 billion people by 2050?’ Mmmm… tasty! understand why we sabotage our sanity with our own thinking. Ruby shows us how to rewire our thinking to find calm in a frenetic world and how to become the master – Shirley Hall, The King’s School not the slave – of our own minds. Promising a passport to saner living, Ruby may not Tickets £10, students £7 (bkg fees apply*) be entirely sane herself but she does a pretty good imitation.

Marlowe Theatre Tickets £20 (bkg fees apply*)

* Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. 36 Science Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Science 37

Image © Brian Fischbacher Image © Hannah Houston

Monday 20 October Tuesday 21 October Wednesday 22 October Wednesday 22 October Monday 27 October Monday 27 October Tuesday 28 October Tuesday 28 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 5.30pm 8pm 2pm 8pm

Everest: The Robin Franklin Chaos Cabaret Richard Wiseman David Gems Mark Miodownik Albert Einstein: Conor Cunningham

Science of High MS: An Update Chaos is all around us. It’s behind Pyschobabble Can We Cure Ageing? Stuff Matters Relativitively Saving Darwin's Soul Altitude Survival cardiac arrhythmias, traffic jams and Speaking ‘Junior The human brain is notoriously bad at inaccurate weather forecasting. Theorist Best-selling author, psychologist and Professor David Gems of the Institute Whatever people think about the rapid According to the author of Darwin’s What happens to your body when you repairing itself after damage. However, Edward Norton Lorenz famously magician Richard Wiseman rummages of Healthy Ageing at University pace of change of technology, our most Edition’ Pious Idea, the debate between push it somewhere it’s not built to go – one part of the body’s machinery is introduced it with the question ‘Does the around in your mind. Discover how to College London will discuss recent fundamental categorisation of ‘stuff’ has religion and evolution has been to the top of the world? With summit kit, capable of this feat. Oligodendrocytes flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off tell lies, read thoughts and transform a progress in research on the biology of not altered. There are living things that Albert, the genius behind the hijacked by extremists on both sides. interactive experiments and stunning are the cells that produce the myelin a tornado in Texas?’ That’s the train of tea towel into a chicken. Several laughs ageing, including the causes and the we call ‘life’ and non-living things that übercoolest moustache in science, is Fundamentalist believers reject videos from his trek to the highest sheath, the insulating layer that events which inspired this appropriately and no Powerpoint! ‘ You won’t want to development of possible treatments. we call rocks, tools, buildings and so on. presenting a lecture like none you’ve evolution outright while fundamental laboratory in the world at Everest Base surrounds nearly all of the nerve fibres in chaotic extravaganza. miss Psychobabble’ (FringeGuru.com) However bionic people with synthetic ever seen. Join him as he quantum atheists claim that Darwin’s theory rules Camp – join TV Science presenter Greg the brain. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one See p.32 (Talks) for full details. organs, bones and even brains are leaps through two World Wars, the out the possibility of God. Dr Conor Foot to find out. disease where these are destroyed by Spiegeltent Shirley Hall, The King’s School blurring this distinction, as we become ‘wurst’ sausage joke ever, and even Cunningham, who is at once a Christian the body’s own immune system. Robin Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) Cathedral Lodge more synthetic, and living buildings some actual proper boffin-checked and a firm believer in the theory of The Hall at Simon Langton will describe some of the work carried Tickets £9 (bkg fees apply*) and objects that heal themselves are on science, accompanied by guest rapper evolution puts forth a compelling case for Grammar School for Boys out recently to develop medicines to the horizon. Professor Mark Miodownik MC Squared. both, drawing skilfully on philosophical, Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) promote regeneration in MS – something of the Institute of Making, University theological, historical, and scientific that until recently was seen as an College London, reviews the changes [Suitable 6+]. sources to buttress his arguments. aspiration. Students will then discuss * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and in to the material world that are coming the Myelin Basic Protein Project, a full person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: our way. Spiegeltent ‘Certainly the most interesting and 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum Tickets £6 (bkg fees apply*) research project that has been running fee you will be charged when booking by invigorating book on the science- at the school for six years. phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are Cathedral Lodge religion frontier that I have encountered.’ unlimited online. Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) (Former Archbishop, Rowan Williams) The Hall at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys Cathedral Lodge Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Visual Arts 39

InHereOutThere John Copnall Stripes (1971) Acrylic on canvas, Katie Walsh by Spencer Murphy, 2013 © Spencer Murphy courtesy the artist’s estate (Detail)

All exhibitions run throughout the Festival and are free unless otherwise stated. Responsibility lies with the organisers of each exhibition and more information can be found at the Festival website www.canterburyfestival.co.uk.

In Here Out There John Copnall Paintings Taylor Wessing Sculpture at Canterbury Cathedral Photographic Portrait Prize The Sidney Cooper Gallery is proud to present a This exhibition brings together a variety of artists selection of works by acclaimed painter John Copnall 2013 that have an academic association with the city (1928-2007). Son of sculptor Bainbridge Copnall, of Canterbury. It features work in a wide range of John studied painting at the Sir John Cass College A unique opportunity to see sixty new portraits disciplines and concerns. before enrolling at the Royal Academy in 1949. Later by some of the most exciting contemporary John became an influential lecturer and for many photographers from around the world. Through In Here Out There reflects the journey taken for a years taught at the Central School of Art & Design editorial, advertising and fine art prints, the exhibition concept to become realised in the material world and at the Canterbury College of Art. During this time explores a range of themes, styles and approaches to of sculpture. he continued to exhibit widely and was elected to the photographic portrait from formal commissioned The London Group in 1989. images of famous faces to more spontaneous and Cathedral Chapter House, Cathedral Precincts intimate moments capturing friends and family. 10am – 5pm (Closed Sundays) Sidney Cooper Gallery, St Peter’s Street, Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery, Precincts admission charges apply Canterbury, CT1 2BQ London. (Exhibition dates: 15 – 31 Oct) Tues – Fri 10.30am – 5pm Sat 11.30am – 5pm Special Exhibitions Room Sponsored by (Exhibition dates: 27 Sept – 1 Nov) The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, 18 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2RA (Entry fee applies: Pay what you can) 40 Visual Arts Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Visual Arts 41

All exhibitions run throughout Save the Children Art I Offer You These Feet Adventures in Acrylics the Festival and are free Postcard Exhibition & Sale Sonia McNally and Liz Jones Micky Motley, Lynne Jenkin, Kim East Kent Artists’ Open Houses 160 local and national artists Sculptural piece using steel, plaster and Curtis, Margaret Brown, Eunice Hill, unless otherwise stated. Charity postcard sale in aid of Save cast glass. Derek Thompsett, Rita Thompsett, www.soniamcnally.co.uk the Children alongside a selection of Linda Spratt, Dodo Bazin, Anne Tapley, Across East Kent, local artists will open their houses every weekend during the Festival (including For up to date information and full trail artwork including paintings, ceramics The Refectory, Eastbridge Hospital, Sarah Vinall, Eira Osborne. and modern craft. High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BE A display of work in acrylics produced Sunday 2 November) from 11am to 5pm. This is a great chance to see unique artworks and meet listings, please visit www.ekoh.org. canterburysavethechildren.co.uk Mon – Sat 10am – 4.30pm by the Petham Adult Studies Art Group the artists who created them. Lilford Gallery, 76 Castle St, under the tutelage of Micky Motley. Canterbury, CT1 2QD Floral & Koi Fish Paintings www.pethamvillagehall.org www.lilfordframing.com Annett E. Bank Petham Village Hall, Church Lane, Stark Gallery, 68 Castle St, A solo exhibition of elegant koi fish, Whitstable Petham, CT4 5RD Canterbury Trail Canterbury, CT1 2PY beach scenes and semi-abstract flower Sat – Sun 10am – 4pm Maps and leaflets available from www.starkgallery.com paintings in a colourful, expressionist style. (25 – 26 October only) Canterbury Visitor Information Centre at the See websites for opening hours. www.annett-bank.co.uk Beaney and the Canterbury Festival Office The Rose in Bloom Pub & Restaurant, Perrywood Arts: on Orange Street. 69 Joy Lane, Whitstable, CT5 4DD Art in the Barn Enquiries: Paul Elliott 01227 282462 Annett E Bank Jolly Drawings Mon - Sat 11am – 11.30pm Sally Higgs, Sheran Baker, Anne Seller Canterbury life drawing group Sun 12pm – 11.30pm [email protected] Drawings and paintings of sportsmen and members of Perrywood Arts Brian Jull Showing artworks both individual and women with other portraits and Faversham Trail nudes by the group of artists that meets Wood and Form 2014 and diverse. Visitors also have the every Tuesday evening at the Jolly Peter Leadbeater, Simon Jewell, Andrew opportunity to help create a large Maps and leaflets available from the Fleur Sailor. Lapthorn, Jason Muteham, Jay Barton mobile Barn Owl. de Lis Tourist Information Centre on Preston Jolly Sailor Pub, Corner of Northgate An exhibition of beautifully crafted, unique www.perrywoodarts.co.uk Street and Creek Creative. furniture, sculptures and photographs. and Broad Street, Canterbury, CT1 1BA The Barn, Foxhill Stud, Oversland, Enquiries: Anne MacLaren 01795 591555 www.woodandform.co.uk 11am – 7pm Boughton under Blean, Faversham, [email protected] Eastbridge Hospital, 25 High Street, ME13 9PF Story of the Crow Canterbury, CT1 2BD 11am - 4pm Mon – Sat 10.30am – 4.30pm Whitstable Trail Irina Pavlova-McGahan (26 Oct – 1 Nov only) Maps and leaflets available from the Sounds of the flowers, songs of the trees Emily Firmin Clare Youngs Cath Deeson and the whisper of the old crow you can Flight Young Photographer Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre. find in Irina's work. Patricia Wilson Smith Competition & Enquiries: Paul Elliott 01227 282462 Quex Barn, 11 -12 Burgate, Canterbury, An installation in remembrance of 346 soldiers [email protected] of the First World War whose stories cannot Exhibition 2014 CT1 2HG Responsibility be told. The Rotary Clubs of Canterbury 9am – 9pm www.i-machine.co.uk The three Rotary Clubs of Canterbury, lies with the Herne Bay Trail St Marys Church, Church Lane, Sunrise and Forest of Blean jointly individual Maps and leaflets available from MacKaris sponsor and organise a photographic Canterbury at the Brunch - a Lower Hardres, nr Canterbury, CT4 7AL house at the Bandstand, Council Offices and Bay competition among the schools of organisers. selection of views in oils and Sat – Sun 11am - 4pm (Other days by Canterbury and surrounding district. Art Gallery. Wood & Form water colours appointment) There are 3 age groups of 7-10, 11-13 Enquiries: Mandy Troughton 07890 065046 Michael Hutchison and 14-17 with all photographs being [email protected] A unique chance to enjoy views of Canterbury Society of Art Autumn displayed at the exhibition. Canterbury in oils and water colours, Exhibition The Canterbury Academy, Knight whilst sampling the delights of this Margate Trail Canterbury Society of Art presents an Avenue, Canterbury, CT2 8QA independent coffee shop. exhibition by a well known group of Sat 10am – 5pm Maps and leaflets available from Margate Brunch (First Floor), 3 High Street, professional and amateur artists with an (1 Nov only) Visitor Information Centre, The Droit House, Canterbury, CT1 2JH eclectic mix of styles and media. Stone Pier, Margate and all participating 9am – 5pm www.canterburysocietyofart.co.uk venues. St. Alphege Church, Palace Street, Enquiries: Jill Pantony 07800 501494 Canterbury, CT1 2DZ [email protected] Mon – Sat 9.30am – 5.30pm David Carnegie Ruth McDonald Alison Lees Sun 10am – 5pm (18 – 26 Oct only) Perrywood Arts - Art in the Barn 42 Walks Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Walks 43

Saturday 18 October Monday 20 October Introductory Tour of the Dover Tour of Medieval Sandwich Canterbury’s Medieval Hospitals Western Heights We will take in the central area and buildings Some ancient hospitals withstood the Gateway to the Countryside Canterbury in the Nineteenth A circular tour, with an of this once thriving port, discussing its origins, upheavals of Henry VIII’s reign. Some Discover Canterbury's rich, varied Century experienced archaeologist, of growth and decline. still fulfil functions envisaged by their Fun in the and historic countryside by way of Explore the diversity of Victorian some of the most interesting Meet: 2pm Town Quay Car Park (Fisher Gate) medieval founders. dedicated footpaths leading from the city life: slums and elegance, cattle parts of Dover’s Western Leader: Sarah Pearson Meet: 2pm Maynard’s Hospital, water very heart of the City. market and iron foundry, brothels and fortifications. Duration: 2 hours Hospital Lane (off Stour Street) Moderately strenuous. Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Leader: Sheila Sweetinburgh Meet: 10am Westgate Towers Gardens, a missionary college. Fordwich to Grove Ferry Canterbury, CT1 2DB Meet: 10am Lady Wootton’s Green Meet: 10am Public car park Duration: 2 hours A half day wildlife tour through (grid ref: TR146 581) (off Broad Street) adjacent to St Martin’s Battery off Friday 24 October Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust the stunning Stodmarsh Nature Leader: Cliff Huggett Leader: Doreen Rosman South Military Road, Dover Reserve. (Includes transfer Duration: 3 hours Duration: 2 hours (grid ref: TR 313 407) St. Martin's and Beyond The Birthplace of Christian England back to Fordwich) The Canterbury Friends of Canterbury Leader: Keith Parfitt From historical St Martin's Church, walk across St Martin's Church and Priory through the Date: Sunday 19 & 26 October Ramblers Archaeological Trust Duration: 2 hours heathland to Fordwich, returning along the Stour Manor of Longport to the statues on Lady Meet: 9.30am George and Friends of Canterbury Valley Way with a pub stop for lunch. Wootton's Green. Dragon Pub, Fordwich, Look Up & Look Around: The St The Village of Charing Archaeological Trust Meet: 10am The Lychgate, St Martin's Church, Meet: 2pm St Martin's Church, CT2 0DB Mildred's Area of Canterbury Throughout the Middle Ages Charing North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1PW North Holmes Road, Canterbury Leader: Paul Southgate & The walk will look at St Mildred's belonged to the Archbishops of Wednesday 22 October (grid ref: TR158 577) Park in the City car parks Leader: Martin Taylor Andrew Mangnall Church, the Castle, alms houses, the Canterbury. See its medieval palace, Leader: Robert Veltman Duration: 2 hours Duration: 2.5 hours Old Tannery, historic pubs, the exterior old church and village street. The Jews of Canterbury Duration: 3 hours Canterbury Tourist Guides Cost: £30, under 13’s £15 of the Canterbury Heritage Centre, Meet: 2pm Charing Parish Church A walk and talk through The Canterbury Ramblers historic houses & the Dane John Leader: Sarah Pearson Canterbury showing the medieval Gruesome Canterbury Tales & Other (bkg fees apply*) Gardens. Duration: 2 hours and early modern sites relating to The Village of Bridge Interesting Stuff Meet: 11am Outside Canterbury Friends of Canterbury Jewish life in the city. An iron-age helmet; Roman armies; stage- Canterbury history, including gruesome Canoe Taster Sessions East Station Archaeological Trust Meet: 10am The Old Synagogue, coaches; grand houses; a racecourse, a railway, events, ghosts etc. A brilliant introduction to Leader: Jenny Watson-Bore King Street war-time tanks - and more. Meet: 2.30pm Westgate Towers/St Peter's the world of canoeing in this City Walls and Gates Duration: 1.5 hours Leader: Jonathan Butchers Meet: 10am Bridge Parish Church Street corner mini adventure. Canterbury Tourist Guides Ltd A circular walk on and around the Duration: 2 hours Leader: Meriel Connor Leader: Lenny Clark Date: Saturday 18 & city walls looking at the only surviving Friends of Canterbury Duration: 2 hours Duration: 1.5-2 hours Wednesday 22 October Canterbury's American Connections gate and what remains of the others. Archaeological Trust Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Canterbury Tourist Guides Ltd Meet: 9am, 11am & 1pm A city walk to highlight some of the Meet: 2pm Christ Church Gate, (Also on Friday 31 October) George and Dragon Pub, Canterbury people and places that The Buttermarket, Canterbury Thursday 23 October The Canterbury Horror Walk Fordwich, CT2 0DB have associations with the Leader: Richard Ginman Grim and gruesome local history featuring true Hidden Faversham Revealed Leader: Paul Southgate & United States. Duration: 2 hours Canterbury's City Wall Circuit tales of terror from the City's less illustrious past. Exploring an intriguing labyrinth of town centre Andrew Mangnall Meet: 6pm Lady Wootton's Green, Friends of St. Mildred's Church A walk around Canterbury's city Definitely not for the squeamish. alleyways giving glimpses of bygone local life. Duration: 1 hour Canterbury (grid ref: TR153 578) wall circuit, covering the city Meet: 7.30pm St Augustine's Abbey, Longport St Meet: 3pm Faversham Railway Station, Cost: £8, under 13’s £5 Leader: Bob Collins Tuesday 21 October gates and other historic places of Leader: Malcolm Campbell Station Rd (bkg fees apply*) Duration: 2 hours interest along the route. Duration: 1.5 hours Leader: Malcolm Campbell Blue Badge Tourist Guide Trafalgar Day in Victory Wood Meet: 10am The Westgate, (Also on Saturday 1 November) Duration: 1.5 hours Kayak Taster Sessions Commemorate Trafalgar in the woods St. Peter's Street, Canterbury A fun and light hearted Tickets for Walks are £8 (bkg fees apply*). that celebrate the victory. Walk new (grid ref: TR144 785) Sunday 19 October Saturday 25 October Sunday 26 October introduction to the world and ancient woodlands with great Leader: Bob Collins of kayaking. views of the Thames Estuary. Duration: 2 hours Numbers are limited so book early. St Dunstan's: The First Suburb in Chilham Water Mill and the Stour Valley Birdwatching Walk Date: Saturday 25 October Meet: 10am Victory Wood car park, Blue Badge Tourist Guide England Views of the Stour Valley from King's Wood, A walk along the footpath adjoining the sea Meet: 9am, 11am & 1pm Lamberhurst Farm, High Street near Railways, Sir Thomas More, Jewish passing through Godmersham Park and back wall observing the birds and other wildlife. George and Dragon Pub, Tickets are available from the Festival Dargate, CT5 3AH The King’s School Canterbury Canterbury, old pubs, war, industry, via the lovely old Chilham Water Mill. Meet: 10am Sportsman Public House, Fordwich, CT2 0DB (grid ref: TR086 626) From Marlowe to modern times: Box Office at the Marlowe Theatre. the horse ford and a vital role in Meet: 10am Chilham Public car park of A252, Faversham Road, Whitstable, CT5 4BP Leader: Paul Southgate & Leader: Ian Wild a walk through King's School's English history. CT4 8DD (grid ref: TR066 536) (please park on the road or grass verges Andrew Mangnall All durations are approximate. Duration: 3 hours history with tales of its buildings, Meet: 2pm Westgate Gardens Leader: Andrew Brooks and NOT in the Sportsman PH car park) Duration: 1 hour The Canterbury pupils and masters. (the Holy Cross/Council Chamber Duration: 3 hours Leader: Glynn Crocker Cost: £8, under 13’s £5 Ramblers Meet: 10am The Mint Yard Gate, entrance overlooking the River Stour) The Canterbury Ramblers Duration: 3 hours (min age 9) Dogs on leads Some stiles on The Borough Leader: Jenny Watson-Bore Canterbury RSPB (bkg fees apply*) welcome route Leader: Mary Berg Duration: 1.5-2 hours The Story of Canterbury Duration: 2 hours th Canterbury Tourist Guides Ltd From the Romans to the 18 century remodelling The Stones of Reculver May be muddy * Booking Fees Apply: By phone Friends of Canterbury Some steps on of the city. See and hear how life changed over A look at the history, construction and Suitable footwear and in person: £1 per ticket booking Archaeological Trust route The Canterbury Horror Walk the centuries. building materials of the walls of the Roman & clothing required fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking (see Friday 24 October for details) Meet: 10am Lady Wootton’s Green fort and St Mary's Church. fee. The maximum fee you will be (off Broad Street) Meet: 10am Public car park at Reculver Some hills on route Uneven ground charged when booking by phone Leader: Doreen Rosman Leader: Geoff Downer or in person is £8. Booking fees are Duration: 2 hours Duration: 2 hours unlimited online. Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust 44 Walks Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk

Canterbury Burial Grounds James Beaney: History of Canterbury in Saturday 1 November Funerary art and burial practices are features A Canterbury Lad Made Good Around 30 Objects Do you work in of this tour of some of the City's atmospheric Rags to riches story of this remarkable The BBC charted world history in 100 Canterbury Cathedral Precincts and sometimes forgotten graveyards. Victorian character, benefactor of the objects. Explore Canterbury’s history The towering Cathedral tempts us to Meet: 3pm St Augustine's Abbey, Longport St Beaney Institute. through 30-odd street objects and neglect its immediate surroundings but its the festivals and Leader: Malcolm Campbell Meet: 2pm St Mary’s Hall (former church), oddities. precincts contain much to interest Duration: 1.5 hours Northgate, Canterbury Meet: 2pm Corner of Monastery Street and surprise. events sector? Leader: Alan Barber and Longport Meet: 10am The Buttermarket Monday 27 October Duration: 2 hours Leader: David Lewis Leader: Maureen Ingram Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Duration: 2 hours Duration: 2 hours If you do, then these dates are for The River Bridges of Canterbury Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Did you know that there are 36 river bridges Wednesday 29 October your diary: Thursday 23 and Friday 24 in Canterbury? Walk them all, never crossing Friday 31 October October 2014 one twice and discover their history. Country, Churches and Creeks Meet: 10am The Bandstand, Dane John around Faversham Canterbury Cemetery: Via Francigena Pilgrims' Gardens, Canterbury, CT1 2NF Walk from the historic centre of Faversham The City's Hidden Treasure Trail – 2-Day Walk Enjoy the very best bits of the 2014 (grid ref: TR148 574) across country to Goodnestone and We encounter a unique spire, an historic Leader: Alan Clewer Graveney churches. Return via Nagden tree and interesting memorials to many Thursday 23 October: Canterbury Festival alongside the Duration: 3 hours and Faversham Creek. brave and talented people. The Canterbury Ramblers Meet: 10am Faversham Guildhall, Meet: 10.30am Main gates of Canterbury Day 1 - Canterbury to Shepherdswell premier festival conference: ME13 7AE (grid ref: TR016 614) Cemetery, Westgate Court Avenue (10.5 miles) The Village of Harbledown Leader: Ray Cordell Leader: Maureen Ingram Meet: Welcome Centre at An iron age fort, a medieval leper hospital, Duration: 3 hours Duration: 1.5-2 hours Canterbury Cathedral (train back). the Black Prince’s well – all part of the story The Canterbury Ramblers Canterbury Tourist Guides Ltd Start 9.30am - 6 hours walking The 2014 Conference of Harbledown. Meet: 10am St Michael’s Church, Elham: A Village Shaped by its Herne Farmland Thursday 30 October: for Festivals. Harbledown Medieval Market. Undulating walk across farmland and Day 2 - Shepherdswell to Dover Leader: Peter Berg sun-dappled glades within sight of Herne An easy walk round the village, looking at (8.5 miles) Duration: 2 hours Windmill and the coast. Please bring own the street pattern and historic buildings. Meet: Shepherdswell Train Station • Challenging speakers you will Friends of Canterbury refreshments. Meet: 10am The Square (by the church) (train back). Archaeological Trust Meet: 10.30am near The Plough Inn, never have heard before Leader: Derek Boughton Start 9.30am (or train from Hunters Forstall Road, Broomfield, Herne, Duration: 2 hours Canterbury East at 9.03am) - • Cutting edge sessions on topics A Dry Pub Crawl! Friends of Canterbury CT6 7AF (grid ref: TR199 668) 5 hours walking 300 inns and taverns have graced Archaeological Trust On bus routes 4 & 6 Leader: Cliff Huggett you thought you knew everything Canterbury since Chaucer’s time. This walk Leader: Irene Harding will discuss a dozen of them. Thursday 30 October Duration: 3 hours The Via Francigena is the Pilgrims' about Meet: 2pm Canterbury West Station The Canterbury Ramblers trail from Canterbury to Rome. • Exceptional platform Leader: David Birmingham Canterbury & its Writers Although we won't be walking Duration: 2 hours Discover the associations with writers born Canterbury’s River the whole way, we will start at performances Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust here, or who have been drawn here as a A Roman river-side city became a Canterbury and finish at Dover on • Networking with a dynamic edge - setting for their work. Learn why we say medieval borough of monastic water-mills successive Thursdays stopping Parish Churches in Canterbury ‘what the dickens’ (without a capital 'D'!). and evolved fine municipal gardens. at Shepherdswell en route. Do the and a damn fine party Looking for the remains of the eighteen Meet: 10am Junction of Gas Street and Meet: 2pm Castle Grounds, Gas Street whole walk or just one day. Please medieval churches within the city walls and Castle Street Leader: David Birmingham bring a picnic lunch as the walks will visiting the two still functioning. Leader: Maureen Ingram Duration: 2 hours take the whole day. A conference for the mind, Meet: 2pm Christ Church Gate, Duration: 1.5-2 hours Friends of Canterbury The Buttermarket, Canterbury Canterbury Tourist Guides Ltd Archaeological Trust body and spirit. Leader: Richard Ginman Duration: 2 hours Walloons & Huguenots Gruesome Canterbury Tales & Other Friends of St. Mildred's Church 16th and 17th century Canterbury was full Interesting Stuff Be the first to access the early of French-speaking refugees, who left a (see Saturday 25 October) Work Smarter: Tuesday 28 October lasting mark on the city. bird deals and to hear about the Halloween Canterbury Ghost Walk Meet: 10am The Buttermarket * Booking Fees Apply: By phone and Stay Connected: programme by visiting the British The Director’s Walk Leader: Michael Peters City centre hauntings and the origins of in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Explore iconic medieval buildings - a church, Duration: 2 hours Halloween are the theme of this spooky Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The Arts & Science Festivals website: an inn, a shop, and a house or three – with Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust special event walk. maximum fee you will be charged when Mean Business the Archaeological Trust Director. Meet: 7pm & 8.30pm Outside the booking by phone or in person is £8. www.artsfestivals.co.uk and Meet: 10am The Buttermarket Marlowe Theatre, The Friars Booking fees are unlimited online. Leader: Paul Bennett Leader: Malcolm Campbell registering your interest. Duration: 2 hours Duration: 1.5 hours Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust We are delighted Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Umbrella 47 to sponsor the Saturday 18 October Monday 20 October Renaissance Dancing and Music from The Old Bones Trombone Choir A Companye of Strangers Kent's professional trombonists entertain you in A Companye of Strangers performs Renaissance a concert that showcases the uniquely brilliant Canterbury dances, songs and music in Tudor costume, in and noble sound of a trombone choir. the city centre. St Peter's Methodist Church, St Peter's Street, City centre 11am Canterbury, CT1 2BE 7.30pm Festival Free. Tickets £5 available from Crowthers Music Shop, 1 The Borough, Canterbury, CT1 2DR. Magnificat for St. Mildred Tickets also available on the door which can Mini-workshop with Tim Roberts be reserved by telephone 01304 364925. on Organ/Chant alternatim music Talk by Tim Roberts, learning a chant Magnificat Monday 20 – with alternate organ verses by Titelouze and Friday 25 October a 12th century antiphon for St. Mildred. We sing the Antiphon and Magnificat in the short Medieval Painting Workshop service to follow at 12pm. Suitable for beginners. This course will utilise the sections 'How to gild The King’s School Refreshments and music handouts included. on panel' and 'How to paint on panel' from the Tea & coffee from 9.45am. renowned medieval Italian painters manual il & Junior King’s St Mildred's Church, Church Street, Canterbury, Libro Dell' Arte by Cennino Cennini to teach Canterbury CT1 2PP 10am – 11.45am participants how to gild and paint a small Tickets £5 (free to CGMS members) available Trecento Sienese style Madonna and Child on the door. panel painting in the style of Simone Martini or Duccio. The Angelus Alternatim for St. Mildred St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, Canterbury Gregorian Music Society Canterbury, CT1 2AT 10am-5pm daily with Tim Roberts (organ) Tickets £285 for participants (free to visit). As the school of Christopher Marlowe Short Gregorian Chant Angelus Service including Contact Peter Murphy at an alternatim Magnificat by Titelouze and a 12th [email protected] or in his 450th anniversary year and century antiphon for St. Mildred. telephone 07967 275425. Somerset Maugham in his 140th, Lasts about 20 minutes. St Mildred's Church, Church Lane, Cantebury, Thursday 23 October Junior King’s and the King’s School CT1 2PP 12pm Canterbury have an outstanding Free. English Speaking Union Presents The Shakespeare Experience foundation in the performing arts. Saturday 18 October A public Shakespeare lecture and schools’ (and Saturday 25 October) workshop with The Globe Theatre This creative tradition is continued Education Team. SaveAs Writers' Two Day Creative Writing Interested schools should contact today - inspiring students to become Ann Peerless on [email protected] for world leading actors, presenters, Workshop more information about venue and timing. The Umbrella showcases a wide Two days of writing workshops featuring Stewart writers, musicians, dancers and Booking is essential. range of additional events happening Ross, Abegail Morley. Greta Ross, Eoin Rodgers, during the Festival. directors. See our websites for Nancy Gaffield, Danny Rhodes, Fiona Sampson. The Parrot, 1-9 Church Lane, Canterbury, A Richer Dust Revealed further information and next CT1 2AG Poetry and chat from three award-winning Responsibility for events in the Umbrella lies open days. 11am – 5.30pm writers, Gillian Laker, Marilyn Donovan and with the organisers of each event. Tickets £20 for the full day, Derek Sellen, with music and images. £7 for each workshop. The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Information correct at time of printing. To book, email [email protected]. 18 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2RA 6pm Please see www.canterburyfestival.co.uk for up Tickets £3 available from to date information. Girls & Boys | 3-13 & 13-18 years | Day & Boarding [email protected] or on the door. T: 01227 714000 | www.juniorkings.co.uk T: 01227 595579 | www.kings-school.co.uk

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Friday 24 October – Faversham Choral Society Thursday 30 October Gulbenkian Theatre Royal Margate Sarah Thorne Theatre Friday 31 October Autumn Concert – Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Parry’s Blest Pair of Sirens, Words and Paintings by Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB Theatre Royal Margate, Addington Street, Sarah Thorne Theatre, Hilderstone, Vaughan Williams’ Five Folk Songs Box Office: 01227 769075 Margate, CT9 1PW St. Peters Road, Broadstairs, CT10 2JW The Terrible Tales Henry Cockburn (Monday – Saturday 10am – 7pm, Box Office: 01843 292795 Box Office: 01843 863701 A spine tingling live performance. Are and McDowall’s Fancy of Folksongs. Rap poetry, reading from 'Henry's Parish Church of St Mary of Charity, Sunday 12pm - 7pm) In Person: At the Winter Gardens, Open Mon to Fri 10am to 2pm and I hour prior you brave enough to experience The Demons' (with Patrick Cockburn) Fort Crescent, Margate, CT9 1HX to show times (24 hour answerphone). Canterbury Tales like never before? Faversham 7.30pm and exhibition of paintings by Henry Website: www.thegulbenkian.co.uk Tickets £10 on the door or from (Suitable for ages 12+). Cockburn, artist, author and rapper. Concessions available, see website for details. Website: www.theatreroyalmargate.com Website: www.sarahthorne-theatrecompany.co.uk Carter's Newsagents, Market Place, The Canterbury Tales, St. Margaret's Old Synagogue, King Street, Canterbury Booking: [email protected] Faversham. Street, Canterbury, CT1 2TG 7pm 5.30pm Saturday 25 October Monday 20 October (with additional 9pm performance on Free. Saturday 18 October Saturday 25 October - 31 October) Atresbandes (performed by Solfatara) Not About Heroes Sunday 26 October Tickets £8 available from Saturday 1 November An atmosphere of simmering intensity is evident from the start Blackeyed Theatre, in association South ‘Last Night of the Proms’ with the www.canterburytales.org.uk. as a young couple exchange brittle conversation across a Hill Park, presents Not About Heroes, the 3 Sopranos History of the Illuminated Page Autumn Fairtrade Fair dinner table. A row over puff pastry causes their frustrations unforgettable story of two of the finest ‘Great Journey through the world of opera, operetta and Saturday 25 October Many important and beautiful Large selection of Fairtrade crafts, to erupt with catastrophic honesty, as a masked figure goads War’ poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried show stoppers but ending with the patriotic Last manuscripts were created by monks Christmas gifts, cards and food. them into voicing their true feelings and manipulates their Sassoon. Through the letters and poems Night of the Proms. The Angelus Alternatim over 800 years ago. See this process Refreshments all day. actions. Performed in Spanish with English subtitles, the of these two men, Stephen MacDonald’s 7.30pm Canterbury Gregorian Music Society from start to finish. Homemade soup lunches. translation takes on a life of its own, providing a subversive acclaimed play paints a vivid and moving Tickets £12.50 in advance, £14.50 on the door with Gerard Ahern (organ) St Augustine's Abbey 10am – 3pm St Peter's Methodist Church Hall, commentary on the action whilst ensuring that the piece is picture of their friendship and the conflict Short Angelus Service with alternatim Tickets £5.20, concs £4.70, child St Peter's St Canterbury CT1 2BE completely accessible. that brought them together. Sunday 19 October organ/chant psalm for St.Paul. Come £3.10, family £13.50 (free to EH 10am – 4pm 7.30pm (Suitable for ages 12+). and join rehearsal to sing with us at members) available on the door. Free (further details Joy Sharman Tickets £11 7.30pm Beethoven and Minimalism with 11.00 (beginner-friendly!) or just listen 01227 634571). Tickets £12, concs £10, Friends £8, at 12.00. Sunday 26 October 29 October – 1 November Under 25s £8 Patrick Dunn, piano St. Paul's Church, Church St, The Angelus Alternatim Patrick Dunn plays music by Beethoven, Canterbury, CT1 2NH 12pm Sunday 26 October Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Ligeti, Ginastera and A Tantalizing Taste of Authentic Canterbury Gregorian Music Society Dusk (A Fevered Sleep and Young Vic co-production) Free. with Ben Scott (organ) Shostakovich on the Steinway Concert Grand. Argentine Tango Nestled together in the heart of a forest, a group of creatures Short Angelus Service with alternatim 3pm (Workshop and social dance) with furry tails are watching and waiting for someone to arrive. The Falcon's Malteser Tickets £9, family of 4 £32 organ/chant psalm for St.Dunstan. Come DREAMLANDS Argentine Tango South East present Their friend has a long way to travel, many things to discover Stage adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's and join rehearsal to sing with us at 11.00 Original musical - a woman recalls, as a 90 minute workshop for beginners and huge challenges to face. Your child will play a central role brilliantly funny film noir pastiche story. Join Saturday 25 October (beginner-friendly!) or just listen at 12.00. her mind falters, Kent's past as seen with tea, cake and optional social in this inventive show, combining film and live performance, inept private detective Tim Diamond and St Dunstan's Church, St. Dunstan's through happy memories of a holiday dance. Authentic contemporary that explores the meaning of home, family, change and his whip-smart younger brother Nick as they Street, Canterbury, CT2 8LS 12pm Wilde Without the Boy romance. Argentine tango taught by reunion. So put on your tail, prick up your ears, and get ready get caught up in the bizarre case of The Free. A dramatisation of ‘De Profundis’, the letter Oscar Arden Theatre, Leslie Smith Drive, professional tangueros. Falcon's Malteser. for Dusk. Suitable for 4-7 year olds, older children welcome. Wilde wrote to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, from Faversham, ME13 8PW 2.30pm and Lower Hardres village hall, Hardres 3pm and 7pm Times various (see website for details) his cell in Reading gaol. Performed by Gerald 7.30pm Court Road, Street End, Canterbury, Canterbury Knitting & Crochet Tickets £8 Tickets £10, concs £8, family of 4 £30 Tickets £10 available from The Sweet CT4 5NP 5.30pm Community Social Event Logan and directed by Gareth Armstrong. 7.30pm Scene, Preston Street, Faversham Tickets £10 available on A social event- bring your projects and Saturday 1 November Saturday 1 November Tickets £12.50 in advance, £14.50 on the door 01227 458829 01227 459225 or 07761 785142 meet local knitters and crocheters, or www.reallypromisingcompany.org.uk. [email protected] / info@ learn these skills. Light refreshments, An Evening with Charlie argentinetangosoutheast.co.uk. The Five & the Prophecy of Prana speakers tba. (performed by Blue Boy Entertainment) Piano Recital with St Paul's Community Centre, Church Landsborough Five young troublemakers are drawn into a power struggle Christina Lawrie Sunday 26 October - Street, Canterbury, CT1 2NH 1pm – 4pm This remarkable singer/songwriter is one that has divided a secret group of warriors. Given a chance of the all-time biggest selling artists in Irish A Whitstable Music Society Concert Saturday 1 November Tickets £4 available on the door. to redeem themselves in the ensuing battle to restore peace, Music history, performing at Nashville’s Thursday 23 October which will include music by Mozart, their action-packed adventure becomes a celebration of Grand Ole Oprey to a full house. Charlie’s Schubert, Rachmaninov and Brahms. Perrywood Arts 'Art in the Barn' ‘The Bigger Picture - Reflections camaraderie and the triumph of the human spirit. Set in Whitstable Methodist Church, songwriting blends easy on the ear, folk, Student Makers' Market Showing artwork which is individual upon the Great War’ modern Tokyo, The Five & the Prophecy of Prana sees Argyle Road, CT5 1JS 7.30pm country, ballads and blues with a strong and Young artisans selling their art and crafts and diverse. Visitors also have the SaveAs Writers present a literary event to dazzling visuals frame a dynamic fusion of hip-hop and often personal lyric content and his own wit Tickets £13 available from opportunity to help create a large commemorate the centenary of the onset with live painting and local music. 01227 277227 or on the door martial arts in an explosive tribute to manga – Japan’s and charisma. mobile Barn Owl. of the First World War. Canterbury High Street (season tickets also available) popular graphic novel form. 7.30pm Foxhill Stud, Oversland, Boughton The Parrot, 1-9 Church Street, 10am-7pm www.whitstablemusicsociety.org.uk. 7.30pm Tickets £21, restricted view £19 under Blean, Faversham, ME13 9PF Canterbury, CT1 2AG 6pm – 9pm Tickets £18 10am – 4pm Tickets £3 available on the door. 50 Events Diary Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Events Diary 51

Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 October 19 October 20 October 21 October 22 October 23 October 24 October 25 October 26 October 27 October 28 October 29 October 30 October 31 October 1 November Canterbury 7.30pm - p.04 7.30pm - p.10 7.30pm - p.14 Cathedral Rachmaninov Voces8 Canterbury Choral Vespers Society Marlowe 7.30pm - p.05 7.30pm - p.35 7.30pm - p.21 7.30pm - p.07 7.30pm - p.25 2.30pm & 7.30pm - p.25 7.30pm - 7.30pm - p.27 2.30pm & 7.30pm - 7.30pm - p.27 2.30pm & 7.30pm - Theatre Russian State Ruby Wax: Sane Simon Callow: Hugh Masekela Flown Flown p.27 The Great p.27 The Great Gatsby p.27 Phiharmonic New World The Man Jesus The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Orchestra Gatsby Festival 7pm - p.20 11am - p.15 10.30am - p.15 1pm - p.15 1pm - p.15 1pm - p.15 1pm - p.15 11am - p.15 11am - p.15 10.30am - p.15 2pm - p.18 2pm - p.19 2pm - p.19 10.30am - p.15 2pm - p.19 Spiegeltent Cabaret Fantastique Katie Bradley & Coffee-time Jazz 1 Schools: Simon Schools: Barton Court Schools: Kent Broadway Choir Top Choir Kent Brigitte Baden- Music Society Albert The Magical The Country Owl Coffee-time Jazz 2 Baby Loves Disco Sophie Smiles Langton Boys College & Friends Rennie Showcase Einstein El Baldiniho & City Squirrel 9.30pm - p.04 1pm - p.15 7pm - p.36 2pm - p.18 2pm - p.19 7pm - p.29 Geno Washington 2pm - p.04 Schools: 7pm - p.22 Chaos Cabaret 7pm - p.23 7pm - p.23 Comedy Club for Kids 3pm - p.18 2pm - p.18 7pm - p.28 7pm - p.13 7pm - p.29 Stones & Bones Tina C Tea Dance Canterbury Jerk Finding the Silence Finding the Tolu Lissa & Nee Nee Stephen Hot Potato Mat Ricardo Academy 9.30pm - p.09 Silence 7pm - p.23 Frost's Improv Syncopaters Gentleman 7pm - p.29 9.30pm - p.14 8.30pm - p.05 9.30pm - p.08 Moulettes 9.30pm - p.09 Finding the Silence 6pm - p.23 8.30pm - p.12 Allstars Juggler Marcel Lucont Danny & the Moscow Drug 8.30pm - p.06 Lulo Reinhardt The FB Pocket 9.30pm - p.09 Finding the KD Jazz 9.30pm - p.28 Champions of the Club Alister Atkin & Orchestra Treetop Flyers 9.30pm - p.26 Silence & Dance 9.30pm - p.12 Cirque du 9.30pm - p.28 9.30pm - p.14 World The Ghost Line Bourgeois & Maurice Orchestra Hey Harley Cabaret Cirque du Cabaret Gentlemen of Few Carnival 8.30pm - p.27 11pm - p.14 11pm - p.26 Sweet, Sour & Late Night at the Late Night at the Spiegeltent Saucy Spiegeltent Shirley Hall, 3pm - p.35 7.30pm - p.36 7.30pm - p.32 2pm - p.10 7.30pm - p.13 7.30pm - p.13 King's School The Richard Wiseman David Starkey Voces8 workshop Freddy Kempf String Fever Gastronaught's Edible Bug Show 8pm - p.24 Simon Evans St Mary's Hall 7.30pm - p.20 7.30pm - p.20 7.30pm - p.22 7.30pm - p.24 7.30pm - p.24 7.30pm - p.26 Studio Theatre The Strange Case The Pyramids of The Unremarkable Inside Dylan Thomas: A November Day of Dr Jekyll & Mr Margate Death of Marilyn Return Journey Hyde Monroe St Gregory's 7.30pm - p.06 7.30pm - p.08 7.30pm - p.11 Foundation Beethoven & Julian Perkins Bursary Concert Butterworth Farewells Cathedral 5.30pm - p.31 5.30pm - p.31 5.30pm - p.31 5.30pm - p.32 5.30pm - p.32 5.30pm - 5.30pm - p.33 3pm - p.33 5.30pm - p.33 Lodge Monty Halls Jonathan Foyle John Campbell A.N. Wilson David Gems p.32 Jessica An Audience with Jonathan Miller Fellowes Henry Sandon 8pm - p.22 8pm - p.37 Jan Piggott Barbed Wire for Mark Miodownik 8pm - p.37 8pm - p.28 5.30pm - p.33 Kisses Conor Festival Henry Sandon Cunningham Laureate Event Other venues 7.30pm - p.36 7.30pm - p.36 7.30pm - p.08 7.30pm - p.11 7.30pm - 7.30pm - p.06 Everest: The Robin Franklin James Rhodes Nova Music p.12 Music at St Science of High (Simon Langton (Augustine Hall) Ensemble Carmen Peter's: Norma Altitude (Simon Boys) (Colyer (Theatre Royal Winstone Langton Boys) 7.30pm - p.06 & Gwylim Music at St Peter's: Fergusson Hall) Margate) Simcock Piano Trio Walks 9am, 11am & 1pm - 9.30am - p.43 10am - p.42 10am - p.42 9am, 11am & 1pm - 9.30am - p.44 10am - p.43 9am, 11am & 1pm - p.43 9.30am - p.43 10am - p.44 10am - p.44 10am - p.44 9.30am - p.44 10.30am - p.44 10am - p.44 (details on p.43 Canoe: Fordwich Canterbury in the Trafalgar Day in p.43 Pilgrims' Trail Day 1 St Martin's & Kayak Tasters Canoe: The River The Director's Country, Pilgrims' Trail Canterbury Cemetery Canterbury p.42-44) Canoe Tasters to Grove Ferry 19th Century Victory Wood Canoe Taster Session Beyond Fordwich to Bridges of Walk Churches & Day 2 Cathedral 10am - p.42 10am - p.43 Chilham Water Mill Grove Ferry Canterbury Creeks around 10.30am - p.44 Precincts 10am - p.42 11am - p.42 2pm - p.42 10am - p.42 10am - p.42 Canterbury's City 10am - p.43 2pm - p.44 Faversham 10am - p.44 Herne Farmland Gateway to the Look Up & Look The Village of Dover Western The Jews of Wall Circuit The Village of 10am - p.43 10am - p.43 10am - p.44 James Canterbury & its Around Stour Heights Charing The Story of Canterbury Birdwatching The Village of Beaneya 10am - p.44 Writers 2pm - p.44 Countryside Canterbury 10am - p.42 Canterbury's River 2pm - p.43 Walk Harbledown Elham: A 6pm - p.42 2pm - p.42 2pm - p.42 The King's School 7.30pm - p.43 Village Shaped 10am - p.44 St Dunstan's City Walls and Canterbury The Canterbury Canterbury's Medieval Hospitals 10am - p.43 2pm - p.44 Walloons & 2.30pm - p.44 Canterbury's by its Medieval Gruesome American Gates Horror Walk 2pm - p.43 The Birthplace of The Stones of A Dry Pub Crawl Market Huguenots 2pm - p.43 Reculver Canterbury Tales Connections Tour of Medieval Christian England 2pm - p.44 2pm - p.44 Sandwich 3pm - p.44 Parish History of 7pm & 8.30pm - 2.30pm - p.43 Canterbury Churches in Canterbury in 30 p.44 Gruesome Canterbury Tales Burial Grounds Canterbury Objects Halloween Key Music Performance Talks Science Walks 3pm - p.43 Canterbury Ghost Hidden Faversham Revealed Walk 52 Big Eat Out Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Big Sleepover 53

Big Big Canterbury is a wonderful place to come and spend a few days, especially during Festival time. Dinner from £10! Extend your stay and check into one of the Big Sleepover Hotels and Guest Houses for some Kentish hospitality. Eat Out Available from 18 October – 1 November Sleepover For more information go to www.canterburyfestival.co.uk

Every night of the Festival, many Canterbury restaurants will be offering a 2 course dinner from as little as £10. The Big Eat Out encourages Festival goers to sample restaurants across the city – enjoying a quick meal before or after a Festival show or trying somewhere they have never dined before. See those participating here and celebrate the varied and delicious foods the city’s restaurants have to offer.

For further information on booking terms and conditions, particularly at the weekend, we advise that you contact the restaurants directly. aBode Canterbury Abbots Barton Hotel Canterbury Cathedral Lodge The Canterbury Hotel Castle House Hotel High Street 36 New Dover Road The Precincts 140 Wincheap 28 Castle Street 2 Courses for £10 2 Courses for £11.25 Or try... Canterbury, CT1 2RX Canterbury, CT1 3DU Canterbury, CT1 2EH Canterbury, CT1 3RY Canterbury, CT1 2TP Tel: 01227 766266 Tel: 01227 760341 Tel: 01227 865350 Tel: 01227 453227 Tel: 01227 761897 The Forge Bistro The Old Brewery Tavern Chapmans www.abodecanterbury.co.uk www.bw-abbotsbartonhotel.co.uk www.canterburycathedrallodge.org www.thecanterburyhotel.co.uk www.castlehousehotel.co.uk 61 Dover Street Stour Street 89-90 St Dunstan’s Street [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Canterbury, CT1 3HD Canterbury, CT1 2NR Canterbury, CT2 8AD Tel: 01227 788022 Tel: 01227 826682 Tel: 01227 780789 The aBode Canterbury is a Set within lawned gardens, a ten Set in the stunning secluded One of the oldest Canterbury hotels, Built astride the ancient city www.forgebistro.co.uk www.abodecanterbury.co.uk www.chapmanscanterbury.co.uk 4 star hotel with 72 minute walk to the city centre. grounds of Canterbury Cathedral, The Canterbury Hotel is located walls of Canterbury stands bedrooms, situated along 53 well-appointed guestrooms in The Lodge is the perfect place to a short walk from the city centre. Castle House Hotel. A great Leonora’s Kitchen Bistro 2 Courses for £12.50 Salt the High Street. Visit the keeping with the style and charm stay in Canterbury. All rooms have Bar, secure parking and heated choice for a unique bed and 15 Palace Street 13 Palace Street aBode Canterbury and let of the building. Cathedral views. pool offers an oasis in bustling breakfast experience, steeped Canterbury, CT1 2D2 The Millers Arms Canterbury, CT1 2DZ us spoil you. Canterbury. in history. Tel: 01227 472401 2 Mill Lane Tel: 01227 788595 www.leonoraskitchen.co.uk Canterbury, CT1 2AW www.saltcanterbury.co.uk Tel: 01227 456057 Posillipo www.shepherdneame.co.uk The Shakespeare 16 The Borough 5 Butchery Lane Canterbury, CT2 1DR 2 Courses for £12.95 Canterbury, CT1 2JR Tel: 01227 761471 Tel: 01227 463252 www.posillipo.co.uk Oscar & Bentleys www.shakespearecanterbury.com 10 Guildhall Street Quex Barn Canterbury, CT1 2JQ And if you're visiting the Ebury Hotel The Falstaff Holiday Inn Express Magnolia House Tudor House 11 – 12 Burgate Tel: 01227 454544 Spiegeltent... 65-67 New Dover Road 8 – 10 St Dunstans Street Upper Harbledown 36 St Dunstan’s Terrace 6 Best Lane Canterbury, CT1 2HG www.oscar-bentleys.co.uk Canterbury, CT1 3DX Canterbury, CT2 8AF Canterbury, CT2 9HX Canterbury, CT2 8AX Canterbury CT1 2JB Tel: 01227 463013 Les Ames Stand at Tel: 01227 768433 Tel: 01227 462138 Tel: 01227 865000 Tel: 01227 765121 Tel: 01227 765650 www.quexcanterbury.co.uk Michael Caines The Spitfire Ground www.ebury-hotel.co.uk www.thefalstaffincanterbury.com www.hiexpresscanterbury.co.uk www.magnoliahousecanterbury.co.uk www.tudorhousecanterbury.co.uk Restaurant @ The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2 Courses for £10.25 aBode Canterbury Canterbury, CT1 3NZ 30 – 33 High Street Tel: 01227 473612 The Ebury Hotel is one The Falstaff is one of the Conveniently located 10 minutes 5* Gold award Georgian guest Tudor House is a 16th century Carluccios Canterbury, CT1 2RX www.thespitfiregroundstlawrence.co.uk of the finest hotels in leading hotels in Canterbury. by car from Canterbury city centre, house, ten minutes from the city building a stone’s throw from Fenwick Tel: 01227 766266 Canterbury, located close Relax in one of our 46 en-suite this modern and relaxing budget- centre. Award-winning breakfasts Canterbury high street and offers St George’s Street www.michaelcaines.com to Canterbury’s shops and bedrooms. Free Wi-Fi and style hotel has 89 well appointed and ideally situated for exploring the a welcoming atmosphere for Canterbury, CT1 2TB Cathedral, offering gardens, parking is available. rooms and a lounge with bar area. city, the coastline or a tourists and visitors alike. Tel: 01227 769420 a restaurant, an indoor pool business meeting. www.carluccios.com and parking. 54 Participation & Acknowledgments Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Venues 55

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The King's School B N E UR The Hon and Mrs Charles and Katie James Festival Council E E S R CH E T U S R E B T TREE nebulodesign.com L R R S T Poet of the Year: A C A E E St Paul’s Mr and Mrs George and Christine Kennedy Dee Ashworth N G E N T A N T A E E E R R A N L E T A L G Church Competition Final YOUNG CRITICS R A M A Mr and Mrs Wolfgang and Dominique Kerck John Brazier DE E C D T T I S P L S S A O R Thursday 2 October 7.30pm Cover Image: R LA I Marlowe Mr and Mrs Richard Latham Cllr Alasdair Bruce D R Whitefriars B U HO C E G S O E Arcade E T S O T R St Gregory’s Centre for Music Selected young writers from local schools P G Square R Mr and Mrs Roddy and Mike Butler jasondoddphotography.com St Mary's Hall S LAN I W S ur T R T G W To to E A A A E L Tickets £5 (bkg fees apply*) review Festival events. See their write- S L T L V S eat S A IVY LANE St Clement’s Caroline Loder-Symonds Cllr Harry Cragg Gr L LANE E Studio Theatre T T IN N L R E J E E NE Church, ups in the Kentish Gazette and at www. E OH G LA H R Mr and Mrs James and Jane Loudon Cllr Michael Dixey O R S OS S E T N T R E S Sandwich The Canterbury Festival E S S S R G SCHOOL’S POETRY canterburyfestival.co.uk. To apply, contact N E R T I L M E A Mr and Mrs Ben Moorhead St Mildred’s A A L O GEOR A257 Cllr Rosemary Doyle M A E A E E 20 L N R L N E T G Bus T Foundation supports the long- E Y T S V S 5 COMPETITION S Church T E A T 0 the Festival Office on 01227 452853. H S Mr and Mrs Ian and Juliet Odgers Mark Everett A S M E S Station E C T GE’ C A W G To Dover & term development of the Festival, R R R EE O Park & Ride ID Please consider the W U Y L R S Mr Richard Oldfield Dr David Flood H T S R B P Folkestone and awards Bursaries to young A C A D L Augustine Hall M R O Students from across Kent have KENTISH Y E V A2 Mr and Mrs Terry and Valerie Osborne Joanne Jones P E musicians in Kent. environment and recycle P R been writing poems on this year’s U Fire W S Mr and Mrs David and Alicia Pentin Robert Jones Remains of T GAZETTE O Station R University for the R E theme ‘Feeling Good’. Every year, brochure after use. Canterbury Castle E Mr and Mrs John and Julia Plumptre Sara Kettlewell T Creative Arts E E The Festival is indebted to the L C the winning poems are included T Dane John Gardens A Count and Countess Nicolas Reuttner Jon Linstrum S N L W P Foundation Board and Friends A O in an anthology and specially ARTS AWARD SUPPORTER C Dane John T Police N Mr and Mrs Paul and Patricia Smallwood Liz Moran St Gregory's Centre for S O Mound U Station O Committee for their on-going 8 A Augustine L RN selected poems will feature on D D The Reverend Nicolas Stacey Susan Wanless P C VE A2 I ity O Hall dedication to fundraising. 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HOW TO BOOK TICKETS Individuals, couples and families play an As a Friend of the Canterbury Festival you Page Price per No of full No of conc Total important part in supporting the work of the can enjoy: Venue Date Time Event Title PRIORITY BOOKING for Friends opens on Monday 21 July. No. ticket price seats seats* £ Festival. Each year the Festival grows in stature Two weeks of priority booking for all GENERAL BOOKING opens on Monday 4 August. and its programme becomes wider and more Festival events varied. However, even with available grants Discounts on selected Festival events ONLINE* and generous sponsorship the Festival always Twice yearly newsletter with a Festival www.canterburyfestival.co.uk needs additional support from the Friends preview and details of events throughout scheme. Canterbury Festival has nearly 1,000 the year For secure online booking of all Festival events, available 24 hours a Friends who enjoy many benefits. A full social programme of Friends' events day, visit our website. organised throughout the year For just £20 a year for a single membership, £30 There are also online booking facilities at www.thegulbenkian.co.uk for a couple and £35 for a family you can help to You can join the Friends in person or and www.theatreroyalmargate.com for events at those theatres. secure the future of the Canterbury Festival. on the phone via the Festival Office on 01227 452853, or at the Box Office at the Marlowe Theatre. BY PHONE* Festival Box Office 01227 787787

The Festival Box Office will accept telephone bookings Mon-Sat 9am- BOX OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS 6pm. Also open Sun 12, 19 and 26 October, 11am-5pm. Reservations are provisional until payment is received and are released after 4 Festival Box Office Colyer-Fergusson Hall Theatre Royal Margate working days, please quote your booking reference when paying. The Marlowe Theatre Gulbenkian, Addington Street, Margate, The Friars, Canterbury University of Kent, Kent, CT9 1PW Tickets for events at the Marlowe Theatre, Colyer-Fergusson Hall and Kent, CT1 2AS Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NE Box Office based at: Theatre Royal Margate can also be booked directly with the theatres. Tel: 01227 787787 Tel: 01227 769075 The Winter Gardens, Fort Crescent, Open: Mon-Sat 9am-6pm Open: Mon-Sat from 10am Margate, Kent, CT9 1HX IN PERSON* Also open Sun 12, 19 and Sun from 5.30pm Tel: 01843 292795 The Festival Box Office, located in the Marlowe Theatre, is open Mon- 26 October 11am-5pm (2pm if a matinee) Open: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-6pm, plus Sun 12, 19 and 26 October 11am-5pm. www.thegulbenkian.co.uk Sat 10am-5pm Sub Total www.theatreroyalmargate.com To book using this form, please complete all columns in the table, Booking Fee BY POST* and then either complete the payment details below or enclose an (£1 per ticket, max £8) All events can be booked on this form, which must be returned to the open signed cheque payable to Canterbury City Council (with upper Add Postage (£1) Festival Box Office at least one week prior to the event. Tickets will be Concessions Refunds & Exchanges payment limit in the top left corner and all other areas blank). dispatched within one week of receipt. Concessions, where applicable, are Unfortunately tickets cannot be exchanged or Donation to the Spiegeltent Appeal detailed in brackets in the ticket price money refunded. Festival Box Office, The Marlowe Theatre, The Friars, Canterbury, If you wish to pay by Mastercard/Visa/Switch/Delta please quote sections of each event listing. Proof of Kent, CT1 2AS GRAND TOTAL £ status may be required. your account number. Visitor Information Visitor Information Centre: At the Beaney House *CHANGE IN BOOKING FEES Access of Art and Knowledge, tel: 01227 378100. Name The Marlowe Theatre has changed its Booking Fee Policy and as The Festival programmes events in a Venue Map: See p.54 for venue locations. such, ALL tickets are now subject to a booking fee. By phone, post Address number of venues across the city with Train Travel: www.nationalrail.co.uk / Expiry Date Valid from and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket varying levels of accessibility. www.southeasternrailway.co.uk booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking A full access guide can be downloaded at Bus Travel: www.stagecoachbus.com Security Code*­­ Switch Issue Number ­ by phone, post or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited online. Postcode www.canterburyfestival.co.uk or requested *The last 3 digits of the number on the back of the card in the signature box Postage is £1. from the Festival Office on 01227 452853 or Dining: To enjoy dinner from just £10 in Telephone [email protected]. restaurants and pubs across Canterbury, please If you would like your tickets posted to you please tick this box. If you The booking fee is charged per ticket, not per transaction. This is an Email see p.52 for The Big Eat Out. DO NOT tick this box your tickets will be held at the Box Office for collection unavoidable administration cost and no proceeds from these fees will The Festival cannot accept responsibility Hotels: For a range of overnight accommodation go to Canterbury Festival. Total Value of Booking Order If your first choice is unavailable, would you like us to book the next available ticket for the accessibility of Exhibitions, Artists’ providers, please see p.53 The Big Sleepover. £ Open Houses trails and Umbrella events. incl. booking fee/postage price? Please tick this box. Box Office: 01227 787787 canterburyfestival.co.uk Booking Form 57

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