About us

Free Range is an award-winning arts charity that presents adventurous music, film and dance events with a policy of free-entry.

We are Canterbury’s best-kept secret. Since we began in 2012 we’ve delivered 226 extraordinary events and worked with over 1000 artists.

The purpose of adventurous culture is to help us see and hear familiar things in a new light. Cultivating an openness and curiosity toward difference is important in the world right now.

Free Range has helped to create a strong regional community of artists, audience members and organisations that care about adventurous culture. We do this through presenting genuinely independent cultural events of the highest quality in an informal, playful and provocative way with a policy of free entry.

Free Range events are for everyone.

Our purpose as a charity is to present free-entry high-quality adventurous culture to the people of East Kent. Like the NHS we are free at point of delivery but we rely on the donations of people who value our work.

Supporting Free Range is easy to do: if you'd like to help us to continue presenting extraordinary events that are free and accessible to all, just click the donate button above. 

You can also make a one-off donation via our Facebook page - which will cost us nothing in fees. 

You can also support our work by telling people about we do and sharing our posts on social media.

twitter.com/free_range_
facebook.com/Freerangecanterbury/
instagram.com/free_range_canterbury

Thank you

We would like to thank our regular donors, without your gifts Free Range wouldn't exist. 

Mike Blamires, Mark Stampe, Matthew De Pulford, Duncan MacKay, David Loughlin, Neil Sloman, Sean Williams, Matt Blanchard, Peter Coyte, Terence Davey

And to our other supporters who wish to remain anonymous

All of your donations have a kind of double life, they're obviously very useful for paying artists but they also circulate as gifts: they help to provide free entry to amazing events, support for local creatives through rehearsals and performances, the cultivation of a generous, discriminating receptivity to adventurous culture and the growth of a likeminded community of artists and audiences.

It is impossible to quantify the return on this kind of investment in your local creative ecology.

We are profoundly grateful for your gift.