Will Adams Festival

The sights and sounds of the Far East will come to Gillingham on Saturday, 11 September with the annual Will Adams Festival.
Now in its 10th year, the colourful spectacle will take place at Gillingham Park, off Canterbury Street, from 11am to 4.30pm.

As well as celebrating Medway’s links with Japan, which Adams forged on his famous voyage to the east in 1598, visitors will also be able enjoy a taste of the Tudor England Adams would have known during his early life in Gillingham.

Other attractions include stunning Japanese Taiko drummers and a period encampment, Japanese games and martial arts demonstrations, children’s Tudor pottery workshops, face painting, Manga workshops, Reiki therapy sessions and costumed characters – including Will Adams himself.