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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
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
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
Deep Sea Diver! Science and Craft Activity
10am to 12.30pm
Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street
Find out about Whitstable’s historic divers, take part in fun experiments and make your own
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
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
Random Kites
Tankerton Slopes
11.30am
A kite flying competition with no rhyme or reason. A blindfolded judge will take a digital
Little Blue Hut
139 Tankerton Slopes
12 noon to 4.00pm
Join the Laureate Squad to sample some great writing by the seaside! Enjoy a poetry picnic and a story spread on
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
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
Little Oysters - Rupert’s Undersea Adventure
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street
A fun storytime and art/craft activity for the under fives and their carers. Materials and
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
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
A Trail of Talk with Tea
Whitstable Harbour South Quay - meeting point
2.00pm
Join celebrated local historian Geoffrey Pike for an enjoyably informative walking tour of Whitstable. Presented with the
‘Knockout!’
Whitstable Swimming Pool
4.00pm
Fun and games in the swimming pool fun for eight to 14 year olds. Team races, relays, inflatable
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
Sheds on the Seashore
Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre
7.00pm to 8.30pm
Historian and author Kathryn Ferry reveals how the diminutive painted structures lining our coast have evolved over the centuries. In her illustrated talk the nation’s beach hut expert
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
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
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
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