Britain's What's On Event Guide
What's on around Whitstable
Today to Mon 7 Jun, closest first.
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Whitstable Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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Enjoy a day of eclectic gardens by the sea. 22 people are showing off their gardens, 10 of them for the first time, with 3 favourites returning, but others marked with yellow balloons, are there to...
Whitstable Gardens, Whitstable CT5 4LT
Sun 23 May
Enchanted Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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It has taken 25 years to create Enchanted Gardens from open farmland to the traditional cottage style garden it is today. I am passionate about the loss of our pollinating insects and am organic.
Enchanted Gardens, Whitstable CT5 3AP
Sat 5 Jun and Sun 6 Jun
Tankerton Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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Five very different gardens within a mile of the sea, enjoying a mild climate. Baddlesmere Road featuring roses and densely planted for colour.
Tankerton Gardens, Tankerton CT5 2EP
Sat 5 Jun
43 The Ridings - Open Garden for NGS
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Delightful small garden brimming with interesting plants both in the front and behind the house. Many different areas.
43 The Ridings, Whitstable CT5 3QE
Sat 15 May, Sun 11 Jul
Meet Me a Tree
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An interactive first opera for 0-2 year olds and their carers.
With music by Schumann, Delibes and Monteverdi as well as familiar nursery rhymes and original songs, HurlyBurly invites you and your...
Gulbenkian University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7NB
Mon 7 Jun
The Ugly Duckling
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Feeling different, teased by his friends and not accepted by his family, the Ugly Duckling is sad and lonely.
Malthouse Theatre, Malthouse Road, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7JA
Wed 2 Jun
Saint Thomas Becket – World Celebrity Healer
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A major exhibition in the context of Becket’s story, Canterbury pilgrimage and health & wellbeing.
2020 marked the 900th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s birth, 850th of his death, and 800th of...
The Beaney
18 High Street
Canterbury CT1 2RA
Sat 29 May to Sun 4 Jul
Saint Thomas Becket – World Celebrity Healer
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A major exhibition in the context of Becket’s story, Canterbury pilgrimage and health & wellbeing.2020 marked the 900th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s birth, 850th of his death, and 800th of...
The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge 18 High Street Canterbury CT1 2RA
Sat 29 May to Sun 4 Jul
Faversham Artisan Crafts , Curios and Gift Markets 2021
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Artisan Crafts , Curios and Gift Market offering unusual and unique products from local makers and traders . Come and have look round , you will be amazed ! Covid Safe Event .
The Alexander Centre, 17 Preston St, Faversham ME13 8NZ
Sat 15 May, Sun 16 May, Sat 5 Jun
Faversham Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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3 distinctive walled gardens in historic Faversham. Start at 58 The Mall. A contemporary garden packed with pollinators, created in 2018, with materials reused in wire gabions to create raised beds...
Faversham Gardens, Faversham ME13 8QN
Sat 5 Jun
The Orangery - Open Garden for NGS
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1½ acre gardens around C18 orangery, now a house (not open). Magnificent extensive herbaceous border & impressive ancient wisteria.
The Orangery, Canterbury CT4 7DB
Sun 16 May
Norton Court - Open Garden for NGS
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10 acre garden within parkland setting. Mature trees, topiary, wide lawns and clipped yew hedges. Orchard with mown paths through wildflowers. Walled garden with mixed borders and climbing roses.
Norton Court, Sittingbourne ME9 9JU
Mon 7 Jun and Tue 8 Jun
Godmersham Park - Open Garden for NGS
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24 acres of restored wilderness and formal gardens set around C18 mansion (not open). Topiary, rose garden, herbaceous borders, walled kitchen garden and recently restored Italian & swimming pool...
Godmersham Park, Godmersham CT4 7DT
Sun 6 Jun
Romeo & Juliet - Outdoor Theatre
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ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare
Presented by the Three Inch Fools
The Three Inch Fools are dusting off their instruments and stepping back into the great outdoors, with a brand new
Charlton Place
Charlton Park CT4 5JA
Sat 5 Jun
Bilting House - Open Garden for NGS
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6 acre garden with ha-ha set in beautiful part of Stour Valley. Wide variety of rhododendrons, azaleas and ornamental shrubs. Woodland walk with spring bulbs.
Bilting House, nr Ashford TN25 4HA
Sat 15 May, Sun 16 May
Doddington Place - Open Garden for NGS
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10 acre garden,wide views; trees and cloud clipped yew hedges; woodland garden with azaleas and rhododendrons; Edwardian rock garden (not wheelchair accessible); formal garden with mixed borders.
Doddington Place, Sittingbourne ME9 0BB
Wed 2 Jun
Old Bladbean Stud - Open Garden for NGS
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Five interlinked gardens all designed and created from scratch by the garden owner on three acres of rough grassland between 2003 and 2011.
Old Bladbean Stud, Canterbury CT4 6NA
Sun 23 May, Sun 18 Jul
Oak Cottage and Swallowfields Nursery - Open Garden for NGS
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Get off the beaten track and discover this beautiful ½ acre cottage garden in the heart of the Kent countryside.
Oak Cottage and Swallowfields Nursery, Ashford TN25 5JT
Fri 21 May, Sat 22 May
Cherry Tree Cottage - Open Garden for NGS
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A one-acre garden managed completely organically featuring a stream-side woodland garden, mixed borders, gravel garden, ponds, orchards, Japanese garden and formal vegetable beds.
Cherry Tree Cottage, Canterbury CT3 2NP
Sat 5 Jun, Sun 6 Jun, Sat 24 Jul, Sun 25 Jul
Haven - Open Garden for NGS
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Award winning 300ft garden, designed in the Glade style, similar to Forest gardening but more open and with use of exotic and unusual trees, shrubs and perennials, with wildlife in mind, devised and
Haven, Ramsgate CT12 4BZ
Sun 23 May, Sun 20 Jun