Canterbury Festival 2025

We can't wait to see you at this year's Canterbury Festival - 16 October to 1 November 2025. You'll find the Festival Bookshop in Augustine House just outside the Hall where the talks will take place. We'll be there from 4pm each weekday evenings (unless events are earlier - such as Duncan Minshull's Writers Walk the World on Thursday 23 October). We will be there an hour before doors open for the first of each of the weekend events.

AND we're looking forward to bringing our pop-up bookshop to the Malthouse on Saturday 25 October, from 9am to 5pm. We'll also be supporting the talks at the Great Hall with Monica Feria-Tinta; Richard Ayoade; David Spiegelhalter; and Hugh Bonneville

A brand new vision from Susannah Stevenson in her first year as Festival Director. A feast of music, ideas, comedy, circus, family events, performances, walks, and of course, talks - to bring our city to life this autumn.

Booking for the Canterbury Festival 2025 opens Tuesday 29 July for Festival Friends and General Release is Tuesday 12 August.