APRIL

1: Heritage Transport Show, Kent Showground, Detling

1: Medway Comic and Screen Festival

1-2: Kent Big Weekend, various venues across Kent

14: Good Friday

15-17: Broadstairs Spring Fair

15: Vaisakhi, Gravesend

16-17: Festival of Steam and Transport, Chatham Historic Dockyard

17: Easter Monday

22: English Festival, Riverside Country Park, Gillingham

22: Hanami Festival, Brogdale, near Faversham

27: Maidstone Fringe Festival starts

29-30: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

MAY

1: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

1: May Bank Holiday Monday

2: Maidstone Fringe Festival finishes

6: Open air cinema season starts at Betteshanger Park, Deal with The BFG

13: Margate Rock and Blues Festival, Margate Winter Gardens

26: The Beast, the world's largest inflatable assault course, at Betteshanger

27: Gig For Life, Hop Farm, near Paddock Wood

27-28: Historic Masters Festival, Brands Hatch

27-29: Kent Garden Show, Kent Showground, Detling

28-29: Napoleonic Re-enactment Weekend, Hole Park, Rolvenden

29: Spring Bank Holiday Monday

JUNE

3: UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, Spitfire Ground, Canterbury

3: World Custard Pie Championships 50th anniversary, Coxheath, near Maidstone

9-11: Dickens Festival, Rochester

10: American Speedfest V, Brands Hatch

10: Demon Dayz Festival with Gorillaz, Dreamland, Margate

16: Rick Astley, Forest Live Concert, Bedgebury Pinetum, near Goudhurst

17: Elbow, Forest Live Concert, Bedgebury Pinetum, near Goudhurst

17: Dover Regatta*

17: Medway in Flames - the climax to the 350th anniversary Battle of Medway commemoration - River Medway, Chatham

17-23: Broadstairs Dickens Festival

18: Father's Day

16-25: Stour Music Festival, Boughton Aluph, near Ashford

24: Armed Forces Day, Great Lines Heritage Park, Gillingham

24-25: Kent Country and Game Fair, Hole Park, Rolvenden

30: Tentertainment, Recreation Ground, Tenterden

JULY

1-2: Tentertainment, Recreation Ground, Tenterden

2 KM Dragon Boat Challenge, Mote Park, Maidstone

6-16: Jam on the Marsh, events across Romney Marsh

7: Olly Murs, Spitfire Ground, Canterbury

7-9: Kent County Show, Kent Showground, Detling

8: Charivari Festival, Folkestone

8: Leeds Castle Classical Concert

8: Tom Jones, Spitfire Ground, Canterbury

8-9: Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn Aerodrome

12-16: Castle Concerts, Rochester Castle Gardens

22: Create Music Festival, Victoria Park, Ashford

22-24: Whitstable Oyster Festival

24-28: Ramsgate Week, Royal Temple Yacht Club

25-29: War and Peace Revival, Hop Farm, near Paddock Wood

28-30: Ramblin' Man Fair, Maidstone with ZZ Top and Saxon

29: New Romney Country Fayre, Romney Marsh

AUGUST

4-6: Margate Soul Festival

5-6: Open water swim and triathlon, Bewl Water, Lamberhurst

5-6: Sheppey Pirates Festival, Barton's Point Coastal Park, Sheerness

5-6: Weald of Kent Steam Rally, Little Engeham Farm, Woodchurch

10-12: Leefest, near Tunbridge Wells

12: Madness, Kent Showground, Detling

16: Hythe Venetian Fete, Royal Military Canal, Hythe

11-18: Broadstairs Folk Week

19: Southeast Air Show, Herne Bay

19: Biggin Hill Festival of Flight

19-20: Biddenden Tractorfest and Country Fair

19-20: Combined Ops, Headcorn Aerodrome

25-27: A New Day Music Festival, Mount Ephraim, Hernhill, Faversham

26-28: Military Odyssey, Kent Showground, Detling

28: Summer Bank Holiday Monday

SEPTEMBER

2: Truckfest, Hop Farm, near Paddock Wood

2-3: Faversham Hop Festival

7-10: Heritage Open Days, various venues across Kent

8-9: Undercover V music festival, Dreamland, Margate

8-10: Leeds Castle Food Festival

9: Will Adams Festival, Gillingham Park

9-10: Southern Model Show, Headcorn Aerdrome

16-17: Paws in the Park, Kent Showground, Detling

16-17: Salute to the 40s, Chatham Historic Dockyard

24: Capstone Festival (outdoor pursuits), Capstone Farm Country Park, Chatham

29: Summer Social, Kent Showground, Detling

29-30: Broadstairs Food Festival

OCTOBER

1: Broadstairs Food Festival

5-8: Tenterden Folk Festival

13-28: Screamland, Dreamland, Margate

14: Canterbury Festival starts

14-15: National Apple Festival, Brogdale, near Faversham

NOVEMBER

4: Canterbury Festival finishes

4: Giant free fireworks display, Great Lines Heritage Park, Medway

4-5: British Truck Racing Championship and fireworks, Brands Hatch

4-5: Leeds Castle Firework Spectacular

DECEMBER

2-3: Dickensian Christmas, Rochester High Street

* To be confirmed

PLUS DON'T MISS...

One of the biggest events of 2017, the Folkestone Triennial. Nine weeks of art will run from Saturday, September 2 to Sunday, November 5. The fourth event of its kind, the last triennial in 2014 attracted 135,000 people to the area.