DealWali - Deal's Festival of Light in the Landmark Garden Saturday 19th Dec

We are organising a special 'Seedy Saturday' event to round off the end of another year in the Landmark Garden and to celebrate the winter solstice.

With DealWali our own festival of light we want to cover the garden in candle light and bring the community together for some music & song, storytelling, seasonal fayre and just being together.

Last year's event - A thousand lights to chase the darkness - was very successful (last year's report here) and great fun.

The event is free - we will collect for donations but much rather people contribute by bringing jars and tea lights, food to share and a warm spirit


There will be seasonal fayre to eat and drink, lots of music from Deal Hoodeners, Sue Watson, JonnieLane & the Sunshine Ukes; storytelling with Roisin Murray;

We will have also local forager Lucia Stuart of the 'Wild Kitchen' with edible delights from our shoreline (and hopefully some oysters!);

Chocolution local raw chocolate specialists with their foraged chocs (

Kentish Cobnut and Milk Chocolate

Sea Buckthorne Toffee and Dark Chocolate

Rosehip Jelly and Dark Chocoalte

Hawthorne Jelly and Dark Chocolate

Meddler Jelly  and Dark Chocolate)

to sample and buy


Pete the Rock from SeaCafe with his famous stone readings will be on hand to get some conversations going

Saturday 19th December starts at 4pm and finishes about 6:00pm.