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Live Music at the Duke
The Duke of Cumberland Hotel, High Street
9.00pm to 11.00pm
Live music at the Duke of Cumberland.
Details will be published here when confirmed.
Free event
The Geoff Everett Band
Deco 5, Oxford Street
8.30pm
Fast paced Rockin Blues and R&B. Described by the legendary John Peel as
Arthur Kaye and the Originals
Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
8.00pm
Arthur K’s first records, released in the 1970s, helped begin the Ska movement and continues to influence it today. Top music magazine Mojo recently featured the band’s 1980s
Festival Finale – Bonfire of the Wishes
The Street, Tankerton Slopes
8.00pm to 9.30pm
Farewell to the festival in a fiery finale of wishes.
Keep an eye on this page. We may leak more details before this event, or on the other hand…
Broadstairs & St Peters Concert Band
St Peters Church, Sydenham Street
7.45pm
In Whitstable with a selection of showtime favourites, the Broadstairs & St Peter’s Concert Band is
OyOyster Comedy!
Whitstable Playhouse Theatre
7.45pm
Richard Herring – ‘Christ on a Bike – The second coming’.
The ‘Hitler Moustache’ star and atheist resurrects and revamps his first and favourite solo show, exploring his strange obsession and affinity with the Messiah.
Dan Antopolski – ‘Turn of the Century’.
2009 Winner of the Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe. Triple [...]
Rattlaz on the Square
Horsebridge Square
7.00pm to 9.00pm
Mixing folk, country, rhythm & blues and Caribbean. The Rattlaz are performing
Whitstable and the Oyster Industry
Keam’s Yard Car Park, Island Wall
6.30pm to 8.00pm
A walk with local historian Geoffrey Pike locating the reminders of this once great industry and exploring its history.
Tickets 2.50
Available at the Whitstable Improvement Trust
Mock Tudor Band Concert
St Alphege’s Church, High Street.
6pm – 7pm
The Mock Tudor Band perform a lively rendition of Early Music gems, all the way from Elizabeth I’s favourite dances to
Crusty Crabs
Horsebridge/Reeves Beach
3.30pm
Crustacean capers for children of all ages. Crab catching returns! In this mollusc mayhem the categories are silly but
Samba Pelo Mar – Join the Fun
Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
2.30pm to 4.30pm
Whitstable’s Community Samba Band invite you to try your hand at playing uplifting rhythms for fun, under the expert guidance of our Maestro and
Terracottas Mini Are Me
Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre
2.00pm to 4.00pm
Get creative with clay and make your own mini-me to join our army. Your creation will be fired in a kiln and added to the ranks of warriors in the Horsebridge windows. After the Festival collect and
Escape to create a knitted flower corsage
Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
All workshops are run by local people with a passion for their subject and for Whitstable too. Not only will you create a unique souvenir from your escape you’ll get the inside knowledge about
Whitstable Week
Whitstable Yacht Club / Whitstable Bay
1.00pm to 6.30pm
Enjoy the relaxing sight of other people working hard. Every week-day afternoon a selection of single and double handed
Wishes and Lanterns and Masks and more
Horsebridge Centre
11.00am to 4.00pm
Play your part in the Festival finale and become part of the spectacle. Join Valerie Ann to make a Whitstable Wish, a festival
From Whitstable with Love
Caxton Contemporary, High Street
10.30 am to 5.00pm
In this contemporary arts project, artists have been invited to makes works, revisiting and reinterpreting
Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday! (exhibition)
Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street
10.00pm to 4.00pm
Discover the story of the seaside holiday from Victorian times to the present, through the memories of local people. Including art, photos, postcards and
The Oyster Lacemakers
Whitstable Improvement Trust, Harbour Street – outside.
10am to 4pm (weather permitting)
See the craft of lacemaking at first hand, and chat to
Relic! Join the Quest
Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street
10.00 am to 4.00pm
Explore the galleries with clues from the ghost of tour guide Agatha in a fun family quest inspired by the popular Children’s BBC
Victory Wood Walk with Canterbury Ramblers
Victory Wood Car Park, Lamberhurst Farm, Yorkletts (Grid Ref TR086625)
10.00am to 1.00pm
A walk to celebrate the Battle of Trafalgar. A six-mile walk starting from the Woodland Trust’s new Victory Wood and then
Plot to Page
Whitstable Improvement Trust garden, Tudor Tea Rooms, Howard’s Kitchen, Whitstable Library square.
All day
July has long, warm summer days so why not make each day special and discover the perfect book? We have taken hand-picked books from the plot and
Sea Shore Safari
Keam’s Yard Car Park
9.30am to 11.30am
Have fun exploring rock pools and discovering the amazing creatures that live on our shores. Please wear
A1 Open Art Exhibition
Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
9am to 6pm
Diversity rules. An exhibition of artists with only one thing in common: no work is larger than A1. As an added bonus
Glowing Grotters
Reeves Beach
Dusk onwards
When darkness falls, all the grotters built in the afternoon will be lit to provide a magical
Musique Femme
Deco 5, Oxford Street
8.30pm
Emily Peasgood and special guest perform a selection of jazz, blues, folk
Festival Jazz Club with the Tishomingo Jazz Band
Galleon Ballroom, Marine Hotel, Tankerton
8.00pm to 11.00pm
An evening of traditional, Dixieland and mainstream jazz with the New Tishimingo Allstar Jazz
OyOyster Comedy!
Whitstable Playhouse Theatre, High Street
7.45pm
Robin Ince – ‘A show with no name’. Robin Ince has been reading too many books.He’s got big ideas, now he just has to work out what they are.
Joe Rowntree – ‘The Peaceful Worrier’. New kid on the block that is tipped to be the
A Place to Write Revisited
Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
7.15pm to 9.00pm
In this optional second part of Danny’s Rhodes’ writing workshop, you can share your own piece of writing
Banana Thursdays
Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
7.00pm to 11.00pm
Banana Thursdays, gig organisers for unsigned bands in east Kent, bring four fantastic local
Blessing of the Waters
Sea Wall / Reeves Beach
6.45pm
This traditional event, appeasing the cruel seas and giving thanks for its bounty, dates back to
Sea Shanties
The Duke of Cumberland Hotel, High Street
6pm to 8pm
Sea shanties in the courtyard (weather permitting).
Free event
Grotters between the Groynes
Reeves Beach
3pm to 5pm
It’s time to start collecting oyster shells. It’s time to make your own glorious grotter. A Whitstable
Terracottas Mini Are Me
Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre
2pm to 4pm
Get creative with clay and make your own mini-me to join our army. Your creation will be fired in a kiln and added to the ranks of warriors in the Horsebridge windows. After the Festival collect and
Whitstable Week
Whitstable Yacht Club / Whitstable Bay
1.00pm to 6.30pm
Enjoy the relaxing sight of other people working hard. Every week-day afternoon a selection of single and double handed
Walk in Time
Meet Keam’s Yard car park, Island Wall
12noon
Discover Whitstable past and present as you walk in time with Whitstable’s own
Urban Sports Collective
Coastal Skate Park
11am to 3.30pm
Open competition for novice and expert skateboard, BMX and In-Line Skaters. Coaching available
Wishes and Lanterns and Masks and more
Horsebridge Centre
11.00am to 4.00pm
Play your part in the Festival finale and become part of the spectacle. Make a Whitstable Wish, a festival
From Whitstable with Love
Caxton Contemporary, High Street
10.30 am to 5.00pm
In this contemporary arts project, artists have been invited to makes works, revisiting and reinterpreting
Plot to Page
Whitstable Improvement Trust garden, Tudor Tea Rooms, Howard’s Kitchen, Whitstable Library square.
All day
July has long, warm summer days so why not make each day special and discover the perfect book? We have taken hand-picked books from the plot and
The Oyster Lacemakers
Whitstable Improvement Trust, Harbour Street – outside.
10am to 4pm (weather permitting)
See the craft of lacemaking at first hand, and chat to
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Friday, July 30, 2010. Start time: 9:00 pm. 
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