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to work on the festival together for the first time. Then in 1984 the festival got a revamping. A new theatre had been built in
Canterbury, and the festival started to include almost every art form. That year the festival included music, visual arts, cinema, theatre, literature and more. International events helped the festival gain the name of Kent’s international arts festival in 2004. That year the festival had lasted three weeks. Now the festival is two weeks but holds over 200 events in those two weeks with 65,000 festival goers. The festival also includes things like classical music, contemporary music and dance, international music, comedy, talks and even walks.
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Festival Friends. Between 2013 and 2019 Canterbury Festival presented a programme of unique events in the Salon Perdu Spiegeltent, a 1920s Art Nouveau temporary venue. During the Pandemic Canterbury Festival presented a smaller Festival in October 2020 with a reduced programme and socially distanced seating, the programme included
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was commissioned by Bell for the festival). That was within the first ten years of the festival in which it had flourished, with its plays. The festival was established closely with the friends of
Canterbury organization. In 1970 the Dean at the time and city council got together and joined forces,
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Partner and Principal Sponsor in 2021. The Festival is also supported by Headline Sponsors Kent College and Paul Roberts Associates, alongside local support and funding from businesses, organisations and trusts from across East Kent, as well as Corporate Members, Vice
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