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Special Art Story time – Whitstable Reads Framed

Special Art Story time – Whitstable Reads Framed Whitstable Library, Oxford Street. 2 pm to 3pm Join in and discover fun art adventures as part of our community read. Free event for children aged 2 – 4 years old.  Contact Whitstable Library


Escape to create darling cup cakes

Escape to create darling cup cakes inspired by the coast 10am-12.30pm Horsebridge Arts Centre You’ll make butter cream ready for icing and sugar decorations and then choose from four ‘seaside’ designs to create a box of six gorgeous cup cakes. Suitable for ages 16 plus. Cost: £25 (plus £5 for materials) To book: www.createinwhitstable.co.uk


Live Music at the Duke

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

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

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


Broadstairs & St Peters Concert Band

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!

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 [...]


Rattlaz on the Square

Rattlaz on the Square Horsebridge Square 7.00pm to 9.00pm Mixing folk, country, rhythm & blues and Caribbean. The Rattlaz are performing


Mock Tudor Band Concert

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


Samba Pelo Mar – Join the Fun

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


Escape to create a knitted flower corsage

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


Wishes and Lanterns and Masks

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

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


Oyster Lacemakers

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


Plot to Page

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


A1 Open Art Exhibition

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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


Sea Shanties

Sea Shanties The Duke of Cumberland Hotel, High Street 6pm to 8pm Sea shanties in the courtyard (weather permitting). Free event


From Whitstable with Love

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

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


Oyster Lacemakers

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


A1 Open Art Exhibition

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


Shanty Night

Shanty Night with Dead Horse Morris and the Shipwright Shanty Crew The Ship Centurion (Public House), High Street. 8pm – 11pm Whitstable based Dead Horse Morris and The Shipwright Shanty Crew will be holding a night of shanties, sailors songs, sea songs and traditional tunes, featuring


OyOyster Comedy!

OyOyster Comedy! Whitstable Playhouse Theatre, High Street 7.45pm Russell Kane – ‘His New Show’ Comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter – a twice if.comedy award nominee, voted Laughing Horse New Comedian of the Year 2004. Markus Birdman – ‘Happy Ever After’ More brilliant ramblings from the genuine son


Carmina Avium

Carmina Avium Methodist Church, Argyle Road 7.30pm Light and classical music that delights the ear and soothes the soul, in the beautiful surroundings of


Native Eyes – Poetry in Motion

Native Eyes – Poetry in Motion Tennis Courts by West Beach 7.00pm to 8.30pm Becky Towner and David Milton have been conducting poetry workshops with Whitstable children, taking Whitstable itself as inspiration. Join David, Becky and hopefully some of Whitstable’s budding


Escape to Create at the Horsebridge Arts Centre

Escape to create pretty beach hut purses Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre 2.00 pm to 4.00 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


From Whitstable with Love

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


Fish Slab Anonymous

Fish Slab Anonymous Fish Slab Gallery, Oxford Street 10am to 5pm An exhibition of anonymous works donated to raise funds for the Fish Slab Gallery. Pick up a masterpiece


Plot to Page

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


Oyster Lacemakers

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


A1 Open Art Exhibition

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


OyOyster Comedy!

OyOyster Comedy! Whitstable Playhouse Theatre, High Street 7.45pm Jarred Christmas – ‘Stands Up’ Following a starring role in a BBC2 sitcom, winning awards, dancing like Beyonce for pot noodle, returns to do what he does best…stand-up Henning When – ‘My Struggle’ Life as German Comedy Ambassador to the UK


A Place to Write

A Place to Write Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre 7pm to 9pm Author Danny Rhodes was living in Whitstable when he wrote the first of his published novels. Join Danny on a walkabout workshop as he revisits some of the scenes of his book ‘Asboville’ and shares how they shaped


Sea Shanties

Sea Shanties The Duke of Cumberland Hotel, High Street 6pm to 8pm Sea shanties in the courtyard (weather permitting). Free event