Find some amazing locally-created gifts for this Christmas in Kent!

Nina Shen’s four-year portrait of a Kent mining village fighting to keep its carnival alive

From community food to Prime Eats, how Kanndiss Riley is cooking up a free-from food revolution

Columnist Anna Willatt, aka Esoteric Isle, goes on the hunt for the county’s most curious getaways

Columnist Zahra Barri speaks to Kentish poets Charlotte Ansell and Jake Nathan ahead of their appearances at Medway Lit Fest 2026

Reviews Ft: Jude Ness, Samuel Ashton & The Instincts, Pollena, Star.One, The Ovines and Apostol

Claire Gordon, founder of Goudhurst’s The Make Shed, on continuity, retaining textile skills and borrowing from nature 

Amber Anderson on live scribing, drawing conversations and doodling on Porsches

Artist Maximillian Boxer on creating over selling, scratching the itch and having a taste for the unexpected

The Bushcraft Bus founders on fires, foraging and finding freedom outdoors, words by Angela Symons

Lily Heywood on her favourite images and why they don’t necessarily need a literal translation

Experience the atmosphere, entertainment, festive shopping and social moments of #ChristmasInGravesham in 2026

Discover your traditional Christmas in Canterbury

Tenterden’s The Sinden Theatre announces festive line-up

Fashion for the hybrid lifestyle

A candid look into Ashford’s annual month-long live music fringe festival, from its guest curator, Jack Coleman

Blending mediums, immersion and helping viewers feel present

“Dance impacts people on an emotional and visceral level, cutting across barriers of language and cultures”

A fantastic meal proving that quality doesn’t have to cost the world

“…you are actively encouraged to lick your fingers while staring at the cathedral - which feels like it should be illegal.”

Andrew Merritt’s bold vision to develop the world’s first intertidal allotment

Contemporary figurative artist Kejii on jazz, identity and capturing something deeper

Arguably one of the most architecturally stunning theatres around, the Malthouse in Canterbury is a perfect example of a flexible creative space 

“Sometimes I think I’ve been teleported, you know, from the 17th century…”

Columnist Sam Wood gives a 2026 reminder that we can all still run away to the circus

Reviews Ft. Paper Verses, Mood, TYTHE, DS Lyte, Colour of Heartache & Tokyo Tea Room

Columnist Zahra Barri speaks with author and therapist Liz Bentley about punk Charles Dickens, the F word and ‘normopaths’

Experience Howard Hodgkin’s vivid world of colour at The Amelia Scott, Tunbridge Wells

Discover places to eat, drink, shop, relax and stay!