Things to do in Thanet and beyond this week (October 13-19)

Comedy, poetry, pottery, theatre and more. Your pick of events happening in Thanet, East Kent and London this week.

The Diaries of Note newsletter is putting on a live show at Cadogan Hall in London on Monday to mark the release of its first book. Tickets from £39.50.

Comedian Lou Wall performs their new show Breaking the Fifth Wall at CAMP in Cliftonville on Wednesday. Tickets £12. 

Harry Baker is recording a live episode of his Something Borrowed podcast with fellow poet Caitlin O’Ryan at Ark in Cliftonville on Wednesday. Tickets £13.70.

Lux Pottery and Something Familiar will be putting on a joint show at Pie Factory in Margate from Thursday to Monday. Find out more. 

Letters You’ll Never Send is at the Arden Theatre in Faversham on Friday, as part of the Faversham Fringe. Tickets £10.

A jukebox of confessions: Letters You’ll Never Send brings anonymous confessions to the stage

Have you got something you’ve always wanted to say to someone but don’t dare? Katie McGarry’s show Letters You’ll Never Send takes your deepest secrets and puts them on stage

Strange TouristAndy Malt

The Canterbury Festival returns from Friday until November 1. See the full programme. 

Oktoberfest is coming to Quex Park on Saturday. Tickets from £20. 

Margate Mushroom Festival takes place at ARK in Cliftonville on Saturday and Sunday. Day passes are £55, and it’s £95 for the weekend. 

The Body As Data has a day of events sharing its living archive of migration stories told through movement, covering sound, film, movement and memory on Sunday. As part of the Folkestone Fringe, you’ll find it at Block 67 from 1-7pm. All events free.

Interview: The Body As Data director Sidonie Carey-Green

Strange Tourist speaks to Sidonie Carey-Green about The Body As Data, a new film documenting real life stories of forced migration through dance and spoken word

Strange TouristAndy Malt