What's On

Tickets - Adult £8 - Child £6

Venue - The Cleary Hall, Landmark Centre, Deal

Children will enjoy exploring Marion's amazing story mat and joining in with stories about the extraordinary world we share. Love Stories for the Earth  lures childre...

Tickets - Adult £5 - Child free

Venue - Maison Dieu (Dover Town Hall), Dover

This world premiere by composer Luke Styles (DMA Artistic Director) and librettist Hazel Gould is performed by local favourites the White Cliffs Symphonic Winds, alongs...

Tickets - Adult £25 Under 25 £12.50

Venue - St George's Church, Deal

Four young virtuoso musicians from the top French orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, come together as Quartet Page Blanche. Their unusual combination of violin, viola, cello a...

Tickets - Adult £8 Child £6

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

Children can throw themselves into this dance workshop inspired by Julia Donaldson’s book The Smeds and the Smoos. Led by Becca Townsley of Loop Dance, whose workshop on The Koala wh...

Tickets - Adult £8 Child £6

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

Children can throw themselves into this dance workshop inspired by Julia Donaldson’s book The Smeds and the Smoos. Led by Becca Townsley of Loop Dance, whose workshop on The Koala wh...

Tickets - Adult £24 Under 25 £12

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

An evening of two halves – three classic and influential silent films from the 1920s, with newly composed scores by Jean Hasse and Luke Styles, set the scene for the extraordina...

Tickets - Adult £15 Under 25 £7.50 DMA Friend £13

Venue - Trinity Church, Union Road, Deal

This inventive British pianist, who composes and champions new work, gives a lunchtime concert of piano suites by Bach and Webern along with a new suit...

Tickets - Adult £13 Under 25 £6.50 Joint Ticket with talk £20/£10

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

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To kick off ou...

Tickets - Adult £25 Under 25 £12.50

Venue - Trinity Church, Union Road, Deal

This lively Lithuanian chamber ensemble, comprising some of the best solo and chamber musicians in the Baltic, presents a full-length programme that include...

Tickets - Adult £15 Under 25 £7.50

Venue - Kent Museum of the Moving Image, 41 Stanhope Road, Deal

A two-hour workshop for adults discovering the beginnings of cinema as pioneered by the Victorians with early film “projectors”, part of the ...

Tickets - Adult £15 Under 25 £7.50 DMA Friend £13

Venue - Deal Town Hall, High Street, Deal

Award-winning Italian pianist Filippo Tenisci takes time out from recording a double album of Wagner and Liszt transcriptions, to play some of these t...

Tickets - Adult £13 Under 25 £6.50

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

Broadcaster and author Gavin Esler interviews historian and Bafta-winning film-maker Laurence Rees about his book The Nazi Mind – 12 Warnings from History. This ground-breakin...

Tickets - Adult £12 Under 25 £6

Venue - Museum of the Moving Image, 41 Stanhope Road, Deal

This performance thrillingly brings to life the early cinema as pioneered by the Victorians with early film “projectors”. It will be enjoyed by a...

Tickets - Adult £28 Under 25 £14

Venue - St George's Church Gardens (behind the Church), Deal 

7.30pm (Gates open at 6.30pm)

Join us for Changeling Theatre’s ever-popular performance at the Deal Festival, which this year fea...

Tickets - Adult £15 Under 25 £7.50 DMA Friend £13

Venue - Trinity Church, Union Road, Deal

This lunchtime recital is another opportunity to enjoy the talent of our Young Artist in Association, Hoda Jahanpour, as she partners with her friend, t...

Tickets - Adult £13 Under 25 £6.50

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal 

Journalist, author, broadcaster and local resident, Sarah Gristwood’s latest book – an anthology of diary entries by women throughout history – is filled with unexpected...

Tickets - Adult £13 (includes a glass of wine) Under 25 £6.50

Venue - Linden Hall Studio, Deal

Directed by Yaron Silberman and starring Christopher Walken and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this 2012 film about a world -renowned string quartet is insp...

Tickets - Adults £26 Under 25 £13

Venue - St George's Church, Deal 

Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, Spiers & Boden first rocketed onto the music scene in 2001, quickly winning a clutch o...

Tickets Adults £15 Under 25 £7.50 DMA Friend £13

Venue - Trinity Church, Union Road, Deal

Winner of the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions in 2023, Charlotte was named Classic FM rising star in 2024 and performs today...

Tickets - Adult £12 Under 25 £6

Venue - Museum of the Moving Image, 41 Stanhope Road, Deal

Robert Poulter’s ingenious new model theatre is the setting for this classic play, Black Eyed Susan, capturing the Deal coastline and its landmarks...

Tickets - Adults £13 Under 25 £6.50

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

Louise Doughty talks to culture writer and broadcaster Christopher Cook about her most recent novel A Bird in Winter. Best-known for her atmospheric London thriller Apple T...

Tickets - Adult £12 Under 25 £6

Venue - Museum of the Moving Image, 41 Stanhope Road, Deal

Robert Poulter’s ingenious new model theatre is the setting for this classic play, Black Eyed Susan, capturing the Deal coastline and its landmarks...

Tickets - Adults £13 (includes a glass of wine) Under 25 £6.50

Venue - Linden Hall Studio, Deal - 5.00pm (doors open and wine at 4.30pm)

To finish our series about the lives of musicians, Searching for Sugar Man, is a 2012 documentary about...

Tickets - Adults Premium £75 (including a glass of fizz) Adults Mid £50 Adult Back £35                     Under 25 Premium £37.50 Under 25 Mid £25 Under 25 Back £17.50

Venue - St Mary's Arts Centre, 59 Strand Street, Sandwich

Tickets - Adult £22 Under 25 £11

Venue - The Lighthouse, 50 The Strand, Walmer, Deal

Tipped as a rising talent by Jazz Wise, Maddy Coombs is one of the most exciting young musicians to have emerged from leading jazz educators Tomorrow’s W...

Tickets - Adult £5 Child FREE

Venue - Charlton Church, St Alphege Road, Dover

Join musicians from One World Orchestra, a ground-breaking professional ensemble drawing its players from diverse musical traditions. They will perform music and s...

Tickets - Adult £15 Under 25 £7.50 DMA Friend £13

Venue - St George's Church, Deal

Three of the UK’s most outstanding orchestral, chamber and solo musicians have come together as Solis Ensemble. End your week with their inspiring lunchti...

Tickets: Adult Premium £50/Adult £30/Adult Upstairs Premium £35/Adult Upstairs £20                Under 25 Premium £25/Under 25 £17.50/Under 25 Upstairs Premium £17.50/                    Under 25 Upstairs £10

Venue - S...

Tickets - Adult £8 Child £6

Venue - Walmer Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, Archery Square, Walmer 

A breathtaking and unique performance by this Czech circus duo who transform their bodies into a game of human croquet, complete with mallets and ba...

Tickets - Adult £8 Child £6

Venue - Walmer Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, Archery Square, Walmer 

A breathtaking and unique performance by this Czech circus duo who transform their bodies into a game of human croquet, complete with mallets and ba...

Tickets - Adult £17 Under 25 £8.50 DMA Friend £15

Venue - The Astor Theatre, Deal

For our third and final new performance created specifically around the festival theme of Coastlines, we’re delighted to present a lunchtime performance by the...

Tickets - Adult £25 Under 25 £12.50

Venue - St George's Church, Deal

The festival goes out with a bang! The Tomorrow’s Warriors’ Big Band goes back to the golden era of swing, when band leaders like Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Loui...