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The city’s cultural strategy

Trustees Carolyn Oulton and Stewart were among those invited to attend a symposium in the Beaney on Friday 25 April ’25 to discuss the district’s future culture strategy. The CCS […]

Tour de Pubs

Did you know that the White Hart has a 17th century Civil War corps chute into the cellar? One of the thousand and one fascinating facts and stories related by […]

Fine start in new venue

Our 2025 season of readings of the works of celebrated Canterbury playwrights began on 22 April with Somerset Maugham’s The Sacred Flame. With two new readers and a new venue, […]

Ray Evison

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Ray Evison on 14 March 2025. Born in Cheshire, Ray was a stalwart servant of the city and […]

Spring Cleaning Alluvia

Our sincere thanks to Westgate Punts for wading into the Stour with the official CCS statue broom and sweeping the winter debris from our lovely Alluvia. She’s not as new, […]

The Theatre Revolution of the 1580s

On Thursday 13 March the Society heard a fascinating talk by Rory Loughnane of Kent University on the part played by William Shakespeare and Canterbury’s Christopher Marlowe in reshaping Elizabethan […]

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