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News and
03.09.2021 |
LATEST NEWS FOR 2021The Costume Sale in support of the Dickensian ChristmasIs this the start of a new dawn? We have heard from Brian that there will be a costume sale on Saturday 20th November 2021 from 10AM to 3PM. Currently the venue is the Queens Hall in Rochester Corn Exchange. At the time of writing there are reports of optimism for the Dickensian Christmas weekend, but nothing definitive. We will keep trying to find out, but for the moment (September 3rd) the best advice is to visit the Medway Council events page.
Until normal meetings can be resumed The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship is running virtual meetings on ZOOM, details below. Details of these and other meetings can be found on the website of the International Dickens Fellowship If it is permitted The Rochester Proppers Facebook group are hoping to run an informal memorial day of remembrance in the late summer for festival characters lost to covid.
News about the 2019 Dickensian Christmas festival has moved to our news archive page
Dates for Dickens events in 2021
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The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship normally holds regular meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month in Gads Hill School in Higham, but these are currently not possible because of Covid. Until normal meetings can resume the fellowship are meeting on ZOOM. Due to security concerns
and GDPR, these virtual meetings will be for fellowship members only or by application to the Secretary. The Dickens Fellowship website has a worldwide list of ZOOM meetings and talks that are taking place, some free and some chargeable. 
