Tickets
Your festival ticket includes all four days for £280 (+£1.50 booking fee)
Click here to book your Shadowlands tickets now.
Spread the cost of your tickets
Use our Payment Plan to spread the cost of your tickets across 3 months.
Just select the Payment Plan option after you add your tickets to the cart.
Your tickets will be reserved and then released following your final payment. This option is available until April 2027.
Accommodation
Stay at the Festival - Rooms now on sale
B&B rooms are avaiable at Keynes College, just an 8 minute stroll across campus from Gulbenkian Arts Centre.
Rooms are available to book from Thursday to Sunday nights, with single (£73) and doubles (£93) on offer.
For more detail click the link below and enter SHADOWLANDS in the Promotional Code box before you book.
Click here to book your accommodation at Shadowlands
Or stay locally
Shadowlands is just a 30 minute walk/8 minute drive from the centre of Canterbury.
For accommodation in Canterbury - see www.visitcanterbury.co.uk.
Getting here
Situated at the heart of the University of Kent campus in Canterbury, Gulbenkian is easily reached by foot from Canterbury, public transport and car.
Canterbury is only 50 minutes from London by train (St Pancras), and within easy reach of Gatwick (75 mins taxi), Heathrow (90 mins taxi) and Stansted (90 mins taxi).
By Car
Parking is free on the University campus, after 5pm Mon-Fri and all weekend. The nearest car parks to Gulbenkian Arts Centre are Central Visitor and Giles Lane Car Parks.
Paid for parking is available on campus on Thursday and Friday if you require, but the Thursday and Friday Festival sessions will take place after 5pm.
By train
We are only a 30 minute walk from Canterbury West station, or a 15 minute journey using the UNI1 or UNI2 bus departing every 10 minutes. The station is served by hourly Southeastern trains towards London Charing Cross, London St Pancras, Margate, and Ramsgate. Southeastern trains travel page
By bus
There are buses every 10 minutes from Canterbury bus station to campus: either the Unibus 1, Unibus 2, or the Triangle services. This journey takes approximately 15 minutes. For more information on getting here by bus, please visit the Transport Stagecoach bus travel page.
By foot
Canterbury West station is around a 25-minute walk from the campus. You can view the journey on google maps. You will turn left out of the station and walk to the end of the road. Just after the ‘Goods Shed’ market on your left, take the footpath on the left and take the subway under the railway line. The University is signposted on blue signs from here.
Gulbenkian
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7NB