Standing Rock Cultural Arts SRCA

KENT being far off the beaten path has considerable entertainment value for such a tiny nest. There are plenty of fun things to do if you happen to get stranded in Kent, or if you study or live there (maybe that’s the same thing), and SRCA is a part of all that.
There seems hardly a medium or discipline in art that is NOT on offer by SRCA. You can see visual art shows of local painting groups, or attend poetry readings. There are kid’s theatre workshops and an annual pie festival with pie auction, profits go to the gallery, please give generously, this place seems to be always hurting for money.
During the summer they stage a highly popular outdoor cinema in the little park nearby (program is mainly animations for kids, but every age group seems to enjoy it) and during winter an ‘International Shorts Film Festival’, ‘international’ meaning they accept submissions from anywhere without restrictions based on location, not that it would intellectually matter or have any input on a global scale, but what the heck. It is fun and some place to go to.
Unfortunately this is not the place where you will come across the next Banksy, even though some confuse ‘art made by people at the edge of society’ with ‘edgy art’, but unfortunately not every at-​risk local is also at the same time a highly gifted undiscovered genius.
For fairness: perhaps that’s simply the inevitable lot of small organizations dependent on funding from local yet outside sources, often untrained in the arts, who tend to use them not for promotion of contemporary culture but their personal perspectives and tastes, the effect is pleasant yet impersonal work that was curated with a lot of emotion, instead of the other way around, which might make more sense.
But for some extra fairness: Banksy is a graffiti artist and works anonymously, and he also did not rise to fame through community arts places.
Even so, have a look at their program, choose something that sounds interesting and go, you most likely will end up having some fun for the evening.
Being a tad more professional in approach and execution would probably not pose too much of a risk taking away from the cosy community charm this place has to offer.