Are you looking forward to 2022 in Kent?

Here's our diary of events for the year and things to look forward to...

February

1: Chinese New Year

5: Kent point-to-point season starts, Charing

5-6: Build It Live, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone

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

2: Kent Mining Museum opening day, Betteshanger Country Park

10: The Wedding Experience, Kent Event Centre at Detling

15: Good Friday

18: Easter Monday

23: St George’s Day

24: The Big Bike Ride in East Kent

28-2: Maidstone Fringe Festival

30-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

May

1-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

2: Early May bank holiday

4: Claudia Winkleman at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

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

27-29: Rise Up Festival at Headcorn Aerodrome

28: Dream Valley dance music festival, Romney Marsh

June

2: Late spring bank holiday

3: Extra bank holiday for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

3: Together Festival at Mote Park

3-19: South East Open Art Studios

4: Summer Love Festival with UB40 at Mote Park, Maidstone

4-5: Rochester Dickens Festival (TBC)

5: Ravers Tots at Mote Park, Maidstone

8: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Dreamland, Margate

11: Canterbury Pride

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

23: Beach Boys at Dreamland

24-26: Battle of Britain Air Show, Headcorn

24-26: Foodies Festival at Mote Park

25: National Armed Forces Day

July

1: Westlife at the Hop Farm

2: Michael Ball and Alfie Boe at the Hop Farm

1-21 August: Changeling Theatre tour, multiple venues across Kent

1-16: Deal Music & Arts Festival

6-9: Castle Concerts at Rochester Castle

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

23: Mote Park Proms with Katherine Jenkins

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

28-31: Chickenstock Festival, Stockbury

30: Glitterbomb in the Park, Mote Park Maidstone

30: Maidstone River Festival

August

5-7: Margate Soul Festival

5-12: Broadstairs Folk Week

6-8: Rock the Mote, Maidstone

13: Dreamland Pride with All Saints Live, Margate

13-14: Smoked & Uncut Festival, Canterbury

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

3-4: Faversham Hop Festival

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

17: Revival in the Park, Mote Park, Maidstone

24: Soulstacia in the Park, Mote Park, Maidstone

30-2 October: Broadstairs Food Festival

29-2 October: Tenterden Folk Festival

October

1: Oktoberfest, Mote Park, Maidstone

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