insideKENT Magazine Issue 73 - April 2018 | Page 24

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EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON
// 17 APR
Discover how best to photograph flowers
and insects followed by an afternoon of
image editing using Adobe’s Lightroom.
A delicious lunch and refreshments are
all included. ‘Capture and Create’ is a joint
venture owned and managed by Sue
Chapman ARPS, CPAGB, and the best-
selling photographer, Doug Harman.
Doug and Sue are both independent professional photographers with
a combined expertise of almost 50 years of photography, Photoshop,
publishing and teaching between them.
9.45am. Price: £139
Godinton House & Gardens, Godinton Lane, Ashford TN23 3BP
www.godintonhouse.co.uk / 01233 643854
HI-DE-HI // 17-21 APR
When Cambridge professor
Jeffrey Fairbrother decides to
change career and become the
entertainments manager of
Maplins Holiday Camp at
Crimpton-on-Sea, he soon
discovers that his former life
hasn’t prepared him for the
amorous advances of sports
organiser, Gladys Pugh, the
dodgy fiddles of camp host,
Ted Bovis and the desperate
attempts of Peggy, the chalet
maid, to become a Yellow Coat. Join them for the Knobbly Knees
competition in the Hawaiian ballroom, the Blindfold Bicycle Race by
the Olympic-sized swimming pool and the Who’s Baby’s Got the Biggest
Head competition in the Mickey Mouse grotto. Hi-de-hi campers!
7.30pm. Price: £14
The Hazlitt Theatre, Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PL
www.hazlitttheatre.com / 01622 758611
THE TULIP CELEBRATION // 18-27 APR
Hever Castle &
Gardens ‘T ulip
Celebration’ will be
even bigger this year
with 20,000 tulips
blooming in the
spectacular gardens
at Anne Boleyn’s
childhood home. For
the first time, the
event will celebrate
the Elizabethan
horticultural boom
with historical
retellings of the tulip’s
journey to England
and its links to
nobility at the castle.
Outside in the
grounds of the castle,
visitors will be able to
enjoy a tulip trail,
either self-guided or
with Hever’s head
gardener Neil Miller,
and marvel at the
20,000 tulips in a
myriad of colours and different varieties planted in the castle grounds
– along the architecturally stunning Pompeian Wall, in the traditional
Tudor Garden and the sumptuous Italian Garden.
From 10.30am. Price: £17.25 (children 5-15 £9.75)
Hever Castle & Gardens, Hever, Edenbridge TN8 7NG
www.hevercastle.co.uk / 01732 865224
WE CAN TIME TRAVEL // 20 APR
JASON MANFORD: MUDDLE CLASS // 18 APR
He’s back! It’s
been a busy few
years for Jason
since his last
smash-hit stand
up show, but fans
of his Absolute
Radio show will
know this
nationally
acclaimed
comedian hasn’t
changed a bit.
Muddle Class
promises to
feature a wealth
of new material
about Jason
growing up
‘working class’
then finding,
over the years,
that part of him has become ‘middle class’ – causing much confusion!
Delivered with Jason’s amiable charm and captivating wit, this is a
show not to be missed.
7.30pm. Price: from £27.50
Assembly Hall Theatre, Crescent Road, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2LU
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk / 01892 530613
Following from his award-winning piece of epic dystopian gig-theatre,
Songs for the End of the World, Dom Coyote now presents his highly
anticipated new solo work, We Can Time Travel. Since he was a boy,
Dom has been receiving messages from the traveller, a mysterious
voice at the edge of time. Join him for an experiment in DIY time travel
as he sets out to change his fate. Jump into a world of analogue synths,
cassette tapes, live looping, epic storytelling and roaring songs to raise
a rallying cry for our times. Discover a secret society of time travellers
and take a leap into the unknown. Part of the Futures: Utopia/Dystopia
series - book now, pay what you decide on the day!
7.30pm. Price: Pay what you decide
Quarterhouse, Mill Bay, Folkestone CT20 1BN
www.quarterhouse.co.uk / 01303 760750
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