From Pub in the Park to Black Deer Festival and Rochester Sweeps Festival, here's what's on in Kent in 2022
Are you looking forward to 2022 in Kent?
Here's our diary of events for the year and things to look forward to...
January
16: Wedding Experience, Kent Event Centre at Detling near Maidstone
22-23: Antiques and Collectors Fair, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
28-30 RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
February
1: Chinese New Year
5: Kent point-to-point season starts, Charing
5-6: Build It Live, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
8-28: Gaia, Rochester Cathedral
12: Kent Prosecco Festival, Maidstone Mercure Hotel
14: Valentine's Day
14-18: Spring half term school holiday
18-20: Broadstairs Blues Bash (TBC)
March
1: Pancake Day
18: Red Nose Day
14-15: Leeds Castle Wedding Showcase, near Maidstone
14-20: Hever Castle Dazzling Daffodils, near Edenbridge
26-27: Kent Big Weekend (TBC)
27: Mother's Day
April
2: Heritage Transport Show, Kent Showground, Detling
10: The Wedding Experience, Kent Event Centre at Detling
15: Good Friday
18: Easter Monday
23: St George’s Day
30-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
May
1-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
2: Early May bank holiday
14-15: Faversham Transport Weekend
21: The world’s largest inflatable obstacle run, Brands Hatch
22: Marvel and DC-themed comic-con, Quex Park, Birchington
28: Dream Valley dance music festival, Bexley
June
2: Late spring bank holiday
3: Extra bank holiday for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
3-19: South East Open Art Studios
4-5: Rochester Dickens Festival (TBC)
11: SANDS Dreamland, Margate
12: Open Farm Sunday
17: Simply Red at Hop Farm Family Park
17-19: Black Deer Festival, Eridge
18: Paul Weller at Hop Farm Family Park
18-25: Independent Bookshop Week
18: World Custard Pie Championships, Coxheath, Maidstone
19: Keane at Hop Farm Family Park
19: Father's Day
24-26: Battle of Britain Air Show, Headcorn
25: National Armed Forces Day
July
1-21 August: Changeling Theatre tour, multiple venues across Kent
1-16: Deal Music & Arts Festival
7-17: JAM on the Marsh, Romney Marsh
8-10: Kent County Show, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
9-10: Pub in the Park, Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells
9-11: Lake Garden Festival, Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells
9: Leeds Castle Concert
20: Tears For Fears, St Lawrence, Canterbury
24: Michael Buble, St Lawrence, Canterbury
24: Big Monster Truck Slam 2, Quex Park, Birchington
26-30: War and Peace Revival, Hop Farm, Paddock Wood
30: Maidstone River Festival
August
5-7: Margate Soul Festival
5-12: Broadstairs Folk Week
6-7: Rock the Mote Maidstone
13: Dreamland Pride with All Saints Live, Margate
13-14: Combined Ops Airshow, Headcorn Aerodrome
20: Craig David, Dreamland, Margate
20-21: Biddenden Tractorfest, Holden Farm, Biddenden
19-21: A New Day Festival, Mount Ephraim Gardens, Hernhill
26-29 Camp Wildfire, near Sevenoaks Weekend One
27-29: Military Odyssey, County Showground, Detling
28-29: Kent Country Show at Quex Park
17-30: Whitstable Oyster Festival TBC
27-28: bOing! International Arts Festival, Canterbury
29: Summer Bank Holiday Monday
September
2-5: Camp Wildfire, near Sevenoaks Weekend Two
3: Let's Rock Kent, Mote Park, Maidstone
5-6: Faversham Hop Festival (TBC)
9-18: Heritage Open Days, venues across Kent
10: Hop Hoodening, Canterbury city centre
10-11: Salute to the 40s vintage festival, Chatham Historic Dockyard
17-18: Paws in the Park, Kent Showground, Detling near Maidstone
30-2 October: Broadstairs Food Festival
29-2 October: Tenterden Folk Festival
October
1-2: Broadstairs Food Festival
1-2 October: Tenterden Folk Festival
15-29: Canterbury Festival (TBC)
19-20: National Fruit Show, Kent Event Centre, Detling near Maidstone
31: Halloween
November
5: Guy Fawkes Night
5-6: Leeds Castle Firework Spectacular (TBC)
13: Remembrance Sunday
December
Rochester Christmas Markets/ Dickensian Christmas dates to be confirmed.
25: Christmas Day
