Each season we will bring you a range of talks and events including our now regular art talks with Richard Dean alongside community led talks and events. These have included historical talks, bee talks and there are so interesting talks and event coming up. You'll find all the booking information in the detail pages for each event.
Upcoming talks
Art Decades: Grazing in the Grass - the irresistible rise of the music festival
Thursday 13 June 2024 Combining documentary footage and striking contemporary images, this talk charts the progress of the music festival in popular music culture.
Oysterbuoys talk
Thursday Multiple dates Join the Buoys to learn the history, culture and farming practices of Whitstable's most famous export.
Art and Artists 3 (Mondays) with Richard Dean MA
Monday Multiple dates The sold out third series of talks returns for anyone who missed it the first time. Combining art history, biography and critical analysis you will learn about the lives and works of some important artists and topics.Upcoming events
Reimagining Sewage Infrastructure for the Benefit of Nature and the Communit
Tuesday 21 May 2024 Whitstable resident Dr Julia King has spent much of her career researching and designing community infrastructure to improve lives all around the world. In 2023, working with local campaign group SOS Whitstable, she was granted funding to consider a series of design interventions along the North Kent Coast that could not only decrease sewage pollution, but also create new community infrastructure, improving access and providing solutions to this complex issue.
A Summer Guitar Concert
Sunday 16 June 2024 Join classical guitarist Bob Drury for a love music event exploring music from Spain and South America.
Whitstable Wine Club
Thursday Multiple dates This is not a wine school or a “serious” way to learn about wine. This will be a social, fun way to discover your palate and try things you may not have drunk before.Talks and events timetable
Don't miss our film screenings
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than…