Arts
Ashford has a vibrant local arts programme of festivals,
events and visual arts experiences. Over the last five years
the Council has focussed on creating different networks of arts
practitioners and commissioning projects to develop local
organisations and artists, all of which can be found in these
pages.
Festivals: Key
festivals for the town are Ashford Summer Sounds (July) which
includes voluntary sector run events and Create, and
the Ashford Visual Arts and
Architecture Festival (Sept). Year on year thousands of
people also visit the Stour Music Festival
(June) and Tenterden Folk Festival
(Oct) which are both run by trusts.
Events: A wide variety of showings and
performances take place in Ashford's streets, parks
and wonderful intimate venues such as St Mary's Church,
Sinden Theatre, Singleton
Environment Centre, as well as live music in pubs and
village halls like at Smarden.
Visual Arts: Kings Wood in Challock provides
the stunning backdrop for Stour Valley Arts public
art trail engaging with regional, national and international
artists. Ashford Visual Artists
are just one of the many arts groups and societies that flourish in
the borough with which we consult and commission work. There
are also a small number of commercial art galleries in the
town centre as well as in Tenterden, Smarden and Mersham.
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For more information on arts
festivals, projects, local arts groups and organisations within
Ashford,
email: chris.dixon@ashford.gov.uk, Arts
Development Officer or telephone 01233 330352.
This webpage was updated on
6/28/2010