Traditional opening parade – lively and colourful. Free event.
Everyone with a taste for oysters and no problem with getting messy has a fair chance of winning!
Beach Art
Cushing’s View, Horsebridge Beach
1pm to 2pm
A second chance to experience this free mixed media art workshop for people aged 16 and over. Create your own artwork using the beach and sea with its many colours and textures as
An afternoon of modern jive by the sea with DJ Sheepman, the king of ’smoooth’.
Sail wishes into the sunset and wave the Festival farewell for another year.
The Honourable Lindley Players invite you to a traditional Old Time Music Hall.
Make your own floating wish ready to wave the Festival farewell.
Whitstable’s very own community Samba band will energise even the most lethargic.
Join the pearl princess and send your wisdom over the seas and far and wide.
A gentle walk, within the ‘Walls’ and alleyways of Old Whitstable and onto the harbour.
Take a relaxing break with a special massage taster from the expert Dharma Karma.
Samba Pelo Mar is back and the whole town is bouncing along to those irrepressible rhythms.
Investigate the amazing lives of woodlice under the microscope.
See and chat to the bobbin lacemakers as they work on a variety of projects.
Collect the shells and treasures from the pool bottom.
Join the campaign to re-introduce Pie Throwing as an Olympic sport!
Wrap up warm … these stories will chill you to the bone.
The Honourable Lindley Players invite you to a traditional Old Time Music Hall.
History walk – Locating the reminders of this once great industry.
Stories for children with a wise theme, every hour.
Holiday + Seaside = Punch & Judy. 3 shows today.
Victoriana comes to the Tea Gardens.
Where children can try out dozens of sports in just one place.
Make us a lantern for tomorrow’s ‘Whitstable Waves’
Find out what creatures stay behind when the tide goes out.
See and chat to the bobbin lacemakers as they work on a variety of projects.
Take a stroll along Reeves Beach to witness the haunting glow of grotters at twilight.
The Honourable Lindley Players invite you to a traditional Old Time Music Hall.
A traditional event, dating back to 1657, but no less relevant today.
A modern incantation of magic lanterns slides shows.
Make an authentic Whitstable Grotter. A free event.
Children who like to dance will love belly dancing.
Through the ‘Walls’ and Alleyways, a guided walk that links our ancestors with focal points.
Join Alice and the Mad Hatter for a magical and bonkers Wonderland adventure.
Victory Wood & The Battle of Trafalgar with the Canterbury Group of the Ramblers
Approx. 6 mile walk led by Ian Wild.
See and chat to the bobbin lacemakers as they work on a variety of projects.
The Honourable Lindley Players invite you to a traditional Old Time Music Hall.
Explore Whitstable through the lyrical observations of poets Becky Towner and David Milton.
An evening of traditional shanty music and songs.
An entertaining evening with expert horticulturists Jean Griffin (BBC Radio Kent) and Kevin Tooher (Hadlow College)./p>