Wealden Times | WT176 | October 2016 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

City centre celebration...
Canterbury Festival has announced this year’s super sized line-up, with
events spanning three weeks from Saturday 15 October, and each day
providing something different and exciting. The English Chamber
Orchestra Ensemble will perform music spanning centuries, Australian
circus troop Circa are guaranteed to wow audiences and various talks
will take place to please wine lovers, keen gardeners and historians, with
speakers including Oz Clarke and Monty Don. With over 200 events
taking place within every available spot of city space, there truly is
something for everyone. To find out more and to discover where it’s all
happening visit canterburyfestival.co.uk
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Dance & dazzle...
Join the party at Assembly Hall on Sunday 30
October, as Magic Of Motown celebrates its
10th birthday. Having embarked on a sensational
nationwide tour, this theatrical treat will be wowing
audiences in Tunbridge Wells, with musical brilliance,
glittering costumes and dazzling dance moves.
Legends such as the Supremes, Jackson 5, Stevie
Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and many more
will be featuring in this stunning production. Book
now by phoning 01892 530613.
Creative coaching...
This October, West Dean College are offering a
series of short creative courses to give participants
the opportunity to learn traditional and
contemporary handcrafts. Explore outside oil
painting and investigate autumnal landscapes.
Choose from a diverse range of woodworking
and furniture making courses, develop your
gardening skills, pick up a camera and learn about
composition, build on a sewing project or try your
hand at blacksmithing and metal work. Prices and
dates vary, so find out more at westdean.org.uk
More than words...
Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October will
be a celebration of reading and writing at Cranbrook
Literature Festival. Join Julian Clary, Sarah Raven,
Vanessa Nicolson, Luke Wright and Gyles Brandreth
and Benet Brandreth for performance poetry, creative
writing workshops, art, illustration and plenty of
stories. For tickets and further information visit
cranbrookliteraturefestival.com
Stroke of genius...
Kent Painters Group will be hosting their 26th
annual art exhibition and sale at Sevenoaks School,
over the weekend of Friday 28 - Sunday 30 October,
to raise money for local mental health and learning
disability charities. Entry is free all weekend, and
there’s an exclusive ‘meet the artists’ opportunity on
Friday evening. There are 60 acclaimed artists and
sculptors exhibiting this year and selling their works.
For more information visit kentpaintersgroup.co.uk
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An apple a day...
After an amazing Apple Festival in 2015, the team
at Brogdale Farm in Faversham are planning another
great weekend on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16
October. The Red Sails restaurant will be providing
cooking demonstrations and you can enjoy craft
and produce stalls, talks, orchard walks and plenty
of family festival fun. To find out more visit
applefestivalkent.co.uk
Pretty ordinary...
Jerwood Gallery are offering a rare opportunity for
visitors to enjoy starting on Saturday 15 October.
Stanley Spencer - A Panorama of Life, gives art
lovers the chance to see works rarely viewed outside
Stanley’s home town in Berkshire. The paintings
celebrate the everyday and document life as it was in
the first half of the last century. They capture and are
a beautiful demonstration of ordinary life and work.
Find out more jerwoodgallery.org
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