From 12 April hospitality business will be able to serve food and beverages outside. If this requires tables and chairs being placed on public pavements outside, you will need a licence from the council. Please click HERE to apply for one. Applications cost £100 to cover the council's costs and the council has a maximum of 14 days in which to decide an application, otherwise it is automatically granted. Find out more here

12 April will see the opening of non-essential retail; personal care premises such as hairdressers and nail salons; and public buildings, including libraries and community centres. Indoor leisure facilities such as gyms will also reopen (but only for use by people on their own or in household groups); as will most outdoor attractions and settings including outdoor hospitality venues, zoos, theme parks, and drive-in cinemas. Read more here

A major exhibition in the context of Becket’s story, Canterbury pilgrimage and health & wellbeing. 2020 marked the 900th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s birth, 850th of his death, and 800th of moving Becket’s relics to a new tomb and chapel in Canterbury Cathedral. Photographs, designs and cartoons will feature portrayals in theatre and film from Henry Irving to Richard Burton, and writers including Tennyson and Eliot creating Becket’s enduring legacy as a rebel. The exhibition will be part of a programme of events developed by partners from across the UK and a platform to commemorate the remarkable life and death of Thomas Becket. The exhibition showcases loans from The British Museum, The Arts Council Collection, University of Kent , Canterbury Cathedral and Canterbury Museums & Gallery.

City Feast is here for the weekend! You will find the vibrant street food market serving freshly-cooked food, beers and cocktails outside the Marlowe Theatre, right next to the river. With lots of warm sunshine predicted, the new location provides the perfect place to sit, eat and drink while enjoying the beauty and heritage of Canterbury. They will be trading daily from 11am-8pm, Friday-Sunday, find out more HERE

Six: Divorced. Beheaded. Live! Nominated for five Olivier Awards including Best New Musical, the sell-out London smash hit Six is the phenomenon everyone is losing their head over! A great show to celebrate the reopening of The Marlowe Theatre.

The Canterbury Society is presenting a lecture which gives an insight into the results of ongoing archaeological projects at Canterbury Cathedral. These include works undertaken to install a new Organ Loft in the North Quire Aisle, a project to enable access in the Cloisters, the construction of new buildings within the Kings School and the wide-ranging works to both the fabric of the Cathedral, and the surrounding landscape in the Precincts. Nathalie Cohen works for the National Trust, as the regional Archaeologist for properties in London, Kent and East Sussex (and also currently in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and West Oxfordshire!), and she has been the Cathedral Archaeologist for Canterbury Cathedral since 2016. To reserve a ticket please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/canterbury-society-33378701725

ENGLISH WINE WEEK IS TAKING PLACE 19TH TO 27TH JUNE THIS YEAR. English Wine Week is moving to be a truly Midsummer event and Canterbury is celebrating it in style: Oscar & Bentley have been promoting English Wines on their menu: https://www.instagram.com/oscarandbentleys/ Fenwick are celebrating with a Wine Shop and Wine Tasting evenings (tonight, Friday and Saturday) and there are a few more tickets available: https://widget.obby.co.uk/corkk The aim of English Wine Week to help provide an opportunity to help venues sell wine, and to inspire more people to get to know the wonderful English wines better and help them buy from local businesses and vineyards. English Wine Week is a chance to link vineyards, retail outlets and influencers across the country to celebrate and promote English wines, offer an opportunity to purchase and deliver wines from all over England to wine lovers’ doors …  

Canterbury School of Visual Arts staff and students have worked exceptionally hard and defied the odds to put together three amazing exhibitions of visual art, held in the very heart of Canterbury’s shopping district – the former Monsoon and Accessorize units in Whitefriars. Do please come down to see students work from the Level 3 Art and Design, Graphic Design, Photography and Fashion and Textiles, HND and BA courses during its public opening times – Saturday 19th June – Sunday 27th June – 10.00am – 4.30pm.

Students from Kent School of Architecture & Planning (KSAP), University of Kent, will take over vacant shops and windows in Canterbury city centre for their public end of year show, Projection, from 25 June - 23 July 2021. The event will form a trail of vacant spaces and shop windows through Canterbury city centre with vibrant reinterpretations of empty spaces through changing imagery, video and models . It will also show innovative alternatives to the usual vinyl boarding used to hide shop interiors. Find out more HERE

Visit Kent's 2021 Kent Big Weekend is back this year even bigger, better and continuing for longer from 26 June -23 July, supported by a multi-media marketing campaign. The event gives Kent residents the chance to discover – or rediscover – the array of fantastic things to see and do on their doorstep and become Ambassadors for their own area! Find out about the HUGE array of things to do between 26 June - 23 July here.