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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


Windy-things! Finale Workshop with Emily Tull

Windy-things! Finale Workshop with Emily Tull Horsebridge Centre 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Make fish and birds to carry to Friday’s Festival finale. Bring a jam jar if you’d like to make your own wishing lantern too. Entry £3 per person. Each session lasts one hour. Booking in advance is available at the Horsebridge.


Festival Finale – Bonfire of the Wishes

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…


Crusty Crabs

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

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

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


Whitstable Week

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

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


Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday!

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


Relic! Join the Quest

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 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


Sea Shore Safari

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


Blessing of the Waters

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


Grotters between the Groynes

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

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 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


Urban Sports Collective

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

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


Relic! Join the Quest

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


Astrodome Space Hop

Astrodome Space Hop Whitstable Library 10.00am to 3.30pm Explore the universe with this exciting state of the art planetarium provided by The Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the University of Kent, then join the Space Hop


Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday!

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


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


‘Knockout!’

‘Knockout!’ Whitstable Swimming Pool 4.00pm Fun and games in the swimming pool fun for eight to 14 year olds. Team races, relays, inflatable


Terracottas Mini Are Me

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 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


Random Kites

Random Kites Tankerton Slopes 11.30am A kite flying competition with no rhyme or reason. A blindfolded judge will take a digital


Little Oysters – Rupert’s Undersea Adventure

Little Oysters – Rupert’s Undersea Adventure Session 1 – 10.00am to 11.00am (Ages 2 to 5) Session 2 – 11.30am to 12.30pm (All ages) Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street A fun storytime and art/craft activity for the under fives and their carers. Materials and


Deep Sea Diver! Science and Craft Activity

Deep Sea Diver! Science and Craft Activity 10am to 12.30pm. In two sessions. Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street Find out about Whitstable’s historic divers, take part in fun experiments and make your own


Relic! Join the Quest

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


Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday!

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


Oyster Festival Quiz

Oyster Festival Quiz ALL TABLES NOW BOOKED* Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre /St Mary’s Hall, Oxford Street 7.30pm This year’s Oyster Festival Quiz will be hosted by a new quizmaster, Lance Lupton, but the fun is just the same. As well as prizes there will be a trophy honouring the memory of the ebulient Lesley Bhola


Sunset Saunter

Sunset Saunter Meeting point: Middle Wall Car Park 6.30pm to 8.30pm Come and enjoy a leisurely, looped walk around Whitstable towards Seasalter and back again. Discover


Terracottas Mini Are Me

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 Purls

Whitstable Purls St Alphege Church, High Street 2pm to 4pm A drop in and learn to knit session for 6 to 11 year olds. Lessons are free and small projects


Prof. Des Turner’s Punch & Judy Show

Prof. Des Turner’s Punch & Judy Show Umbrella Centre (St Mary’s Hall), Oxford Street. 1.30pm , 2.30pm & 3.30pm Professor Des Turner returns with the most authentic and entertaining Punch & Judy in South East England. The shows will take place in


Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday!

Beside the Seaside: the great British holiday! (exhibition) Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street 1.00pm 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


Whitstable Week

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


Belly Babes – Kids’ Bellydance

Belly Babes – Kids’ Bellydance Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre 12.15pm to 1.15pm Children who like to dance will love belly dancing. Sixty


Let’s Look At Boats

Let’s Look At Boats Reeves Beach 10.00 am to 12 noon Whitstable Yacht Club invite parents to bring children beachside to examine a variety of sailing


Relic! Join the Quest

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