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Free Range
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Weekly free live music, film and poetry events on at Thursday in Canterbury.
👉http://freerangecanterbury.org
👉Mailing list: http://tinyurl.com/4rhvweex
TONIGHT! 30/10/25: I think it was a feeling / Bill Hawkes

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

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I think it was a feeling / Bill Hawkes
A performance experiment about self voyeurism, shame and sensation. It’s also about pissing yourself: what it feels like when you can’t control it, and when you can.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
TONIGHT! 23/10/25: Right Here, Right Now / Nutter’s Corner

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr293
Right Here, Right Now / Nutter’s Corner
A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness by the quartet Right Here, Right Now led by the gifted trumpeter Charlotte Keefe.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
TONIGHT! 09/10/25: Guts & Gluts: a harvest gathering

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr291
Guts & Gluts: a harvest gathering
What happens if we put care and community at the centre of our climate crisis response? What small, creative acts of repair can we enact locally and daily? What does food security mean and how do we s...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
FREE RANGE OPEN STAGE | 7.00 - 8.30pm Saturday 4th October: #14 HARVEST at The Mooring Cafe, Water Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NQ

10 min slots. If you’d like to take part, email freerangeopenstage@gmail.com. Limited slots may be available on the night. Works in progress encouraged.
Free Range Open Stage
Canterbury's monthly showcase for music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentations/mini drag operas/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashups/whatever
freerangecanterbury.org
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Surviving...but would love a podcast to produce (and happy to present). Just sending that out into the Bluesky data algo streamy #freelancepenguin
August 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
TONIGHT! 19/06/25: Safe Operating Space / Gracie Bassie

Last show of the Summer!

Doors at 7pm, Music from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

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Safe Operating Space / Bassie Gracie
Safe Operating Space is about the beauty of unrepeatable moments. Composer, electronic musician, improviser and field recordist Tullis Rennie with mixes recorded and live music.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
TONIGHT Free Range Open Stage: #9 RESISTANCE
7pm The Mooring Cafe, Water Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NQ
Free entry - donations welcome

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Free Range Open Stage
Canterbury's monthly showcase for music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentations/mini drag operas/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashups/whatever
freerangecanterbury.org
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
TONIGHT! 22/05/25: The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club / Casbah

Doors at 7pm, Music from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr288/
The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club / Casbah
The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club is a multimedia rhythm band rooted in repetition, drawing from the rhythms of motorway travel and dance music, finding a shared pulse between mecha...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
STILL TO COME

29.05 FR#287 Spheric Totemic
05.06 FR#288 The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club / Casbah
12.06 FR#289 Riddley Walker
19.06 FR#290 Safe Operating Space / Gracie Bassie

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Design by Ole Henrik Henriksen
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
TONIGHT! 22/05/25: A performance conversation with Evan Parker, Matt Wright and Filipe Gomes

Doors at 7pm, Music from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr286/
A performance conversation with Evan Parker, Matt Wright and Filipe Gomes
When you’ve lived such a rich musical life as 80-year old saxophone legend Evan Parker the stories pour out. But what happens if you blur the boundary between anecdote and musical improvisation?
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May 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Free Range Needs Your Help - Since 2012 Free Range has been providing award-winning free-entry adventurous music events in Canterbury.

But this could all stop. This year we didn’t receive Arts Council funding and we need your help to keep going.

justgiving.com/campaign/freerange
May 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The new Free Range Summer season is just around the corner and there is an exciting event happening this Saturday.

📰 Read All About It -
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May 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Unfortunately this event has had to be CANCELLED. Free Range Open Stage will return on Saturday 7th June.
Your favourite adventurous performance night continues!

7.00 - 8.30pm Saturday 3rd May: Free Range Open Stage #8:SYMBIOSIS at The Mooring Cafe, Water Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NQ | freerangecanterbury.org/events/open-stage/

10 min slots. To take part, email Pascal at freerangeopenstage@gmail.com
Free Range Open Stage
Canterbury's monthly showcase for music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentations/mini drag operas/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashups/whatever
freerangecanterbury.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Your favourite adventurous performance night continues!

7.00 - 8.30pm Saturday 3rd May: Free Range Open Stage #8:SYMBIOSIS at The Mooring Cafe, Water Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NQ | freerangecanterbury.org/events/open-stage/

10 min slots. To take part, email Pascal at freerangeopenstage@gmail.com
Free Range Open Stage
Canterbury's monthly showcase for music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentations/mini drag operas/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashups/whatever
freerangecanterbury.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Much recommended industry talk in May in Canterbury
April 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
INDUSTRY TALK: MAKING A SCENE
10/05 2 - 4pm 'A panel Talk with Kent's premier Grassroots & DIY Music Events Producers' lu.ma/1m5vijns
MAKING A SCENE - A Panel Talk w/ Kent's Premier Grassroots & DIY Music Events Producers · Luma
Exploring Kent’s grassroots music landscape with figureheads of the scene. Featuring... Sammy Clarke (Where Else?, Awkwardness Happening) — "...a grassroots…
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April 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are excited to announce the Free Range 2025 Summer season!

Over five at events at we bring you modern jazz, free improvisation, performance conversation, experimental theatre, foraging, poetry, motorways, dance music, a lost film and a dystopian future.

mailchi.mp/freerangecan...
April 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Your favourite adventurous performance night is back!

7.00 - 8.30pm Saturday 5th April: Free Range Open Stage #7: PLAYTIME at The Mooring Cafe, Water Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NQ | freerangecanterbury.org/events/open-stage/

10 min slots. To take part, email Pascal at freerangeopenstage@gmail.com
Free Range Open Stage
Canterbury's monthly showcase for music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentations/mini drag operas/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashups/whatever
freerangecanterbury.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Your favourite adventurous performance night is back! This unique event is an open mic for all kinds of performance: devise something to one of our themes or bring your music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentation/mini drag opera/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashup/whatever.
7.00 - 8.30pm 5th April: Free Range Open Stage #7: PLAYTIME at The Mooring Cafe, Canterbury CT1 2NQ freerangecanterbury.org/events/open-stage/

10 min slots. If you’d like to take part, email freerangeopenstage@gmail.com. Ltd slots may be available on the night. Works in progress encouraged.
March 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
7.00 - 8.30pm 5th April: Free Range Open Stage #7: PLAYTIME at The Mooring Cafe, Canterbury CT1 2NQ freerangecanterbury.org/events/open-stage/

10 min slots. If you’d like to take part, email freerangeopenstage@gmail.com. Ltd slots may be available on the night. Works in progress encouraged.
March 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Outside of our two main seasons, we run lots of events, workshops and other activities.

6.00 - 9.00pm Sunday 23rd March: Free Range Orchestra | @foundrysounds.bsky.social Sounds, Biggin Hall, Biggin Street, CT16 1BD, Dover - facebook.com/events/1550053575660402
March 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
London friends a recommendation of something from our friends Arctic Circle/Daylght Music next Saturday
Next Saturday is the 88th Day of the Year. The end of our 15th Birthday Celebrations. A fundraiser for 2025. An afternoon of music, tea & cake. Join me! www.daylightmusic.co.uk/events/392

[Borrowed Otto A. Totland's hands from DM384 The Hot Tin, Faversham 17.11.24 by Paul Hudson]
March 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Promoting or producing music events is a bonkers thing to attempt once let alone the near 500 times I've done it so far. Anyhow thank you the two kind anons who have kick started the 2025 Daylight Music crowdfunder. We're at 2% now! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £2500 to produce Daylight Music 2025
Iʼm raising money to produce Daylight Music 2025. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This MONDAY 24.02 Free Range continues

7 - 8pm: Yapada - Duo and trio improvisations
Dan Herbert / Yannis Patoukas / Panos Ghikas

8.30 - 9.30pm: Trance Map+
Evan Parker / Matt Wright / Milana Zarić / Richard Barrett

Free entry but a ticket is required - www.canterbury.ac.uk/event-bookin...
February 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Due to unforeseen circumstances the Open Stage and Free Range Orchestra event at Streets Ahead on Sunday 16th February will no longer be happening.
16.02.25 Open Stage & Free Range Orchestra
5 - 9pm / free entry / 6-8 Longmarket, Canterbury, CT1 2JS (the old Curry’s building)
February 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM