As part of this year’s Canterbury Festival, The Aphra Behn Society of Canterbury presented The Masks of Aphra Behn. An audience of around 150 people gathered in St Paul’s-without-the-Walls Church, […]
In a sold-out Anselm Studio 1 on the Canterbury Christ Church University campus, we were taken back in time for – as the programme put it – a ‘Cornucopial Enticementation […]
Aphra Behn may be best known for her plays, but she also wrote some fascinating poetry – and not all of it as risqué as her reputation suggests. On 18 […]
A fantastic visit back to Canterbury and the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge to spend the day researching inspirational Kent women through the ages. Led by digital humanities expert […]
Aphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole, features at the Canterbury Wine Festival, Westgate Hall.
The popular series of readings of plays by Canterbury playwrights continues with Behn’s delightfully frank political and social satire.
This exhibition celebrates the startling achievements of this daughter of London stage every season for over 50 years and a novella, Oroonoko, the first fiction in English to centre on a rebellion of enslaved Africans.
Join The Canterbury Players as they bring to life their own adaptation of Aphra’s radical, shocking, political and sexy play.
Christine will illustrate through her photographs the whole story of creating the bronze statue of Aphra Behn. Starting from her initial idea, through making the clay sculpture on a special […]
This talk by Charlotte Cornell from the University of Kent shines light on new archival evidence rooting Behn firmly in county dubbed 'the garden of England'. Charlotte will explore Behn's […]
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
A year of events celebrating the life and works of the first woman professional writer in English and daughter of Canterbury, Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
