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JANUARY
12-13: Antiques and Collectors Fair, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
19-20: Leeds Castle Wedding Showcase
27: Wedding Experience, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
FEBRUARY
1: White Cliffs Festival of Winter Ales, Dover Town Hall
9-10: Build It Live, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
17: Kent point-to-point season starts, Charing
22-24: Broadstairs Blues Bash
23-24: Tenterden Model Railway Exhibition
MARCH
8-9: The Big Brocante, Hop Farm, near Paddock Wood
8-9: Prosecco Festival, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
8-17: POW Festival, Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate
15: Red Nose Day
24: Holiday & Leisure Show, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
30: Medway Comic and Screen Festival, Medway Park, Gillingham
31: Mother's Day
APRIL
6: Heritage Transport Show, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
6-7: British Touring Car Championship, Brands Hatch
14: Hanami Festival, Brogdale, near Faversham
19: Good Friday
20: English Festival, Riverside Country Park, Gillingham (dates TBC)
20-22: Tattoo Extravaganza, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
21: Easter Sunday
21-22: Festival of Steam and Transport, Historic Dockyard, Chatham
21-22: Easter Truck Racing, Brands Hatch
22: Easter Monday
23: St George’s Day
MAY
4-6: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
6: May Bank Holiday Monday
11-12: Motors by the Mote, Leeds Castle
18: Faversham Transport Weekend
18-19: Create It Live Roadshow, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
19: Thronefest, Quex Park, Birchington
23-27: Alfresco Music Festival, Hop Farm, Paddock Wood
25-26: Isle Fest, Sheppey Sports and Social Club, Queenborough Road, Halfway
27: Spring Bank Holiday Monday
JUNE
1 - World Custard Pie Championships, Boughton Monchelsea
1-2: American Speedfest VI, Brands Hatch
1-2: Folkestone and Ashford Military Show, Sellindge Showground
1-2: Rochester Dickens Festival
9: Open Farm Sunday
16: Father's Day
16: Paul Weller, Bedgebury Pinetum, Goudhurst
21-23 Broadstairs Dickens Festival, Broadstairs
21-23: Black Deer Festival, Eridge Park, near Tunbridge Wells
21-30: Stour Music Festival, Boughton Aluph
28: Deal Festival of Music & The Arts starts
29: Prosecco, Gin and Dance, Mote Park, Maidstone
29: Armed Forces Day
JULY
5-7: Kent County Show, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
4-14: JAM on the Marsh, Romney Marsh
6: Aero Legends Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn Aerodrome
7: Battle of Britain Memorial Day, Capel le Ferne
12-14: Pub in the Park, Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells
13: Chelsfied Village Fair and Air Display, near Orpington
13: Deal Festival of Music & The Arts finishes
13: Leeds Castle Classical Concert
13: Caste Concerts Proms, Rochester Castle
18-19: Create Festival, Ashford
19-21: Ramblin' Man Fair, Mote Park, Maidstone
21: Big Monster Truck Slam, Quex Park, Birchington
23-27: War & Peace Revival, Hop Farm, Paddock Wood
26-27: Faversham Beer Festival, Faversham Football Club
26-28: Sheppey Pride, multiple venues including Sheerness and Queenborough
27-28: Carnival of History, Leeds Castle
AUGUST
1-4: Neverworld, Hever
2-4: Margate Soul Festival
2-4: New Day Festival, Mt Ephraim Gardens, Hernhill
3: Leysdown Carnival
3-4: Sheppey Pirates' Festival, Sheppey Rugby Club, Lower Road, Minster
9-16: Broadstairs Folk Week
18-19: Biggin Hill Festival of Flight
10-11: Combined Ops, Headcorn Airfield
21: Hythe Venetian Fete, Military Canal, Hythe
24-25: Cider Festival, Brogdale, near Faversham
24-26: Military Odyssey, County Showground, Detling
26: Summer Bank Holiday Monday
30-2: Camp Wildfire, near Sevenoaks
31-1: Faversham Hop Festival
31-1: Napoleonic Re-enactment Weekend, Hole Park, Rolvenden
SEPTEMBER
7-8: Taste of Kent Food Festival, Bradbourne House, East Malling
7-8: Wheels and Fins Festival, Joss Bay
13-22: Heritage Open Days, various venues across Kent
14-15: Paws in the Park, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
21-22: Salute to the 40s, Historic Dockyard, Chatham
OCTOBER
1: Turner Prize announcement, Turner Contemporary, Margate (Date TBC)
3-6: Tenterden Folk Week
5: Oktoberfest, Mote Park, Maidstone
19-20: Apple Fair, Brogdale, near Faversham
12-13: British Touring Car Championship, Brands Hatch
18-20: British Superbikes Championship season finale, Brands Hatch
19: Canterbury Festival starts
23-24: National Fruit Show, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
NOVEMBER
2: Canterbury Festival ends
2-3: Leeds Castle Firework Spectacular
DECEMBER
7-8: Rochester Dickensian Christmas Festival