National Poetry Day

John Hegley presents his fresh from Edinburgh Fringe 2023 hour-long show of poem, drawing, cardboard creature, song and story alongside three terrific turns telling their own Canterbury tales, including the plick pluck plaintive plenty of Diego Brown and the Good Fairy, plus poet Rachel Pantechnicon, whose favourite word is quiver (the noun rather than the verb).

Be most wary of this event should you wish to avoid rhyming language.

On National Poetry Day at a canter I come with some chums and in Canterbury, we will play with opposable thumbs and disposable words and our strings and our strums and Gulbenkian birds if you've ever been eight then don't leave it too late you should put on a skate and the otherno need for a third.

Presented in partnership with Canterbury Festival.

When: Thu 5 Oct, 7.30pm

Venue: Gulbenkian Theatre

Tickets: £16 (Concessions available)

Age: 8+

Wonderful Welsh storyteller, comic, raconteur and wit Shôn Dale-Jones returns to the Gulbenkian with his brand new show.

After cracking an egg on his mother’s forehead, Shôn opens his door to find real life Internet trolls on his doorstep threatening to turn his world upside down. CRACKING is a dark and funny story that blends reality and fiction into one seamless whole.

CRACKING is a true life story that is almost completely made up - about polarised perspectives, lying like you’re telling the truth and how stories can help us get in and out of trouble.