Archeology, history and the lived experience of an amateur potter combine in this love letter to clay. Jennifer Lucy Allan will be in conversation with Faversham-based potter Lucy Rutter.
Event Date | Fri 21 Feb 4:00pm |
Individual Price | £8.00 |
Location | Faversham Assembly Rooms |
Categories | 2025, Fri 21 Feb, Art & Music, Non Fiction |
Scriptwriter and producer Joe Tucker shares the real-life tale of his Uncle Eric, who turned to painting portraits of working-class life as a way of trying to make sense of his own. A story full of heart and humour. With host Steven Gale.
Event Date | Sat 22 Feb 1:00pm |
Individual Price | £8.00 |
Location | The Almshouses Chapel |
Categories | 2025, Sat 22 Feb, Art & Music, Biography & Memoir, Non Fiction |
Simon Goddard’s book-by-book, year-by-year literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade reaches 1974, the year in which one man is trying to find his soul in a world that's gone to the devil. Wickedly funny and shockingly tragic. With author Mark Stay.
Event Date | Sat 22 Feb 5:00pm |
Individual Price | £10.00 |
Location | Faversham Assembly Rooms |
Categories | 2025, Sat 22 Feb, Art & Music, Biography & Memoir, Non Fiction |
Artist Ben Edge has travelled Britain recording weird and wonderful folk customs that come alive in communities all over the country. He shares stories, anecdotes and legends with host Caroline Millar, and talks about how connecting with living folklore helped him recover from depression.
Event Date | Sun 23 Feb 1:00pm |
Individual Price | £10.00 |
Location | Faversham Assembly Rooms |
Categories | 2025, Sun 23 Feb, Art & Music, Non Fiction, Place, Geography & Travel |
Dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep talks to Marg Mayne about his extraordinary life both on and off stage. In his memoir Just Different he looks back on the extraordinary times he has lived through, from dancing with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn to the prejudices he faced as a working-class, gay man and living through the Aids epidemic. Expect laughter, tears, and plenty of gossip.
Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 1:00pm |
Individual Price | Various Prices |
Location | St Mary of Charity |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Art & Music, Biography & Memoir, Non Fiction |
Buzzcocks bass player and lead guitarist Steve Diggle has been the driving force keeping the band alive since he first met Pete Shelley in 1976. He talks to music journalist Siân Pattenden about his new book Autonomy, Diggle’s definitive inside account of their shared musical legacy and complex friendship through the band’s rise, fall, and rise again – from their punk origins to Top of the Pops, the band's break-up and reformation.
Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 3:00pm |
Individual Price | £15.00 |
Location | The Old Brewery Store |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Art & Music, Biography & Memoir, Non Fiction |
A vital reminder of the importance of direct action in turbulent times, Led By Donkeys will discuss their new book, Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability, a stunning visual showcase of the group's artistic acts of resistance against years of inept, corrupt Conservative rule in Britain and which demonstrates how they continue to hold the powerful to account. They will be in conversation with journalist, author and artist Siân Pattenden.
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Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 5:00pm |
Individual Price | Various Prices |
Location | Queen Elizabeth Theatre |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Art & Music, Non Fiction, Politics |
Leeroy Thornhill, ex-member of The Prodigy, talks to author and music journalist Miranda Sawyer about the story of the first decade of the band, from the earliest raves to Japan and the United States in the late 1990s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.
Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 5:00pm |
Individual Price | £15.00 |
Location | The Old Brewery Store |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Art & Music, Biography & Memoir, Non Fiction |
We are delighted to welcome Jamaican reggae poet, performer, activist and critic Linton Kwesi Johnson to perform a selection of his poetry and to talk about his latest book, Time Come, in conversation with author Jacqueline Crooks. One of the greatest writers and poets of our time, as well as a hugely respected activist, Linton's writerly output is prolific and profound, his career having begun in the 1970s when he first emerged as a revolutionary reggae poet.
Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 7:00pm |
Individual Price | £15.00 |
Location | St Mary of Charity |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Poetry / Spoken Word, Performance, Biography & Memoir, Art & Music, Culture & Diversity, Politics |
Join author and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer as she runs through her fantastic assemblage of key music artists of the 1990s – Oasis, Blur, The Prodigy, Suede, Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and more. She talks to music journalist Siân Pattenden about a time when British music meant everything, and the mad exhilaration of being right in the thick of it.
Event Date | Sat 1 Mar 7:00pm |
Individual Price | £12.00 |
Location | The Old Brewery Store |
Categories | 2025, Sat 01 Mar, Non Fiction, Art & Music |
A sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno's address book is a veritable who's who of rock and pop. On Some Faraway Beach is the first serious, critical examination of his life and music, from an idiosyncratic childhood to 1960s art school and the sharp end of pop charts around the world. The book's author, David Sheppard, will be talking to to Whitstable music journalist Michael O'Connell.
Event Date | Sun 2 Mar 2:00pm |
Individual Price | £8.00 |
Location | The Arden Theatre |
Categories | 2025, Sun 02 Mar, Non Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Art & Music |