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Award winning music, poetry, arts and film live events in and around Canterbury

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.

Donating

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_
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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.

News

Our Autumn season starts on 3rd October with the wild beauty of the Lunatraktors. Other highlights include music for string quartet and jazz octet with Leon Strings and Workshop Collective, a commission for the Free Range Orchestra from international composer and hurdy-gurdy player Stevie Wishart, a one-woman playabout the life of Vivien Haigh-Wood (T.S. Eliot's first wife) and a 'Feral Choir' led by extreme vocal wizard, Phil Minton.

Free Range Open Stage continues on the 1st Saturday of the month in October (5th), November and December

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FR#283 Phil Minton’s Feral Choir

Thu 28-11-24 7:00 pm 

Fruitworks Coworking
1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

A wild, adventurous continuation of Canterbury’s ancient choral tradition, celebrating the approaching Winter Solstice with howls, groans, croaks and laughter.

FR#284 Wintersound: The Six Tones

Thu 16-01-25 7:00 pm 

Fruitworks Coworking
1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

The Six Tones combine traditional Vietnamese instruments and musical traditions with experimental Western music.
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