insideKENT Magazine Issue 50 - May 2016 | Page 44

ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT

© Julia Claxton

it’s festival season! cont.
Brighton & Hove Food
and Drink Festival
Spring Harvest
// 19-30 May

Elderflower Fields // Sussex // 27-30 May
Elderflower Fields was
born in 2012 out of a
desire to create a new
festival in Sussex which
started with families
and kids first, and then
built the rest of the
weekend around them.
In the first year they
really didn’t know what
to expect. Intending to
produce a party for a
few hundred friends and family, the plans snowballed and before they knew
it, they had sold over a thousand tickets. What is more surprising is that
everyone loved it! The sun shone, kids played and everyone danced in the
beautiful surroundings of the Bentley estate.
It was so popular that they did it again in 2013 and this time twice as
many people came – largely encouraged through word of mouth from the
previous year’s customers. There were more kids’ activities, more music
and more delicious local food and drink. And the sun even came back too!
For 2016 there is a spectacular line-up of music acts such as Gypsy
Hill, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer, Schlomo and Island Cassettes.

The main events at this year’s
Brighton & Hove Food and Drink
Festival are the Cool Climate Wine
Dinner at Jeremy’s Restaurant on Thursday 26th May, the main ‘Sussex
& The World Weekend’ on the bank holiday of 28th-30th May, and the
Taste of Guernsey lunch on bank holiday Monday 30th May at MARKET.
But it’s all spectacular – market stalls, cookery demonstrations, live events
and plenty of food and drink make this a festival to be reckoned with.
www.brightonfoodfestival.com

Artigras Festival // Kent // 20-21 May
The festival is brought together to deliver two days of cultural activities in
the heart of Ashford Town Centre. Artigras will take place in Park Mall
Shopping Centre in the heart of Ashford, and will be taken over by arts a