The outstanding pianist - Joseph Havlat - will lead an ensemble of the very best current Royal Academy of Music students in performing 8 world premieres written and performed in tribute to our director, John Woolrich, alongside two premieres written by John himself. This concert is the final event in the series of events celebrating […]
Artist Name: Sara Trillo and Fiona Parry Date: Friday 4th - Sunday 6th October 2024 Time: 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Social media: IG: @fionaannparry @saratrillo Website: saratrillo.co.uk Sara Trillo and Fiona Parry are collaborating on a series of planting and sculptural experiments, inspired by the history of dene holes (agricultural chalk mines), subterranean mythologies and […]
Artist Name: Jim Lockey Event Type: Exhibition Date: Friday 4th October, Saturday 5th October, Sunday 6th October. We stand on shores that are sculpted by the waves. Tides that erode the land release clay that was itself formed in the beds of ancient waterways. This is the material that is used to create the ceramic […]
Artist Name: Sidonie Carey-Green and Tom Tegento Event Type: Film screening (loop) Date: Friday 4th October, Saturday 5th October, Sunday 6th October Time: 10:00 - 17:00 hrs The Body as Data follows a series of participants as they re-map the Kent Coast of England. Emerging from the summer’s Body as Data project workshops and walking […]
Artist Name: Rhiana Bonterre Event Type: Exhibition Date: Friday 4th October, Saturday 5th October, Sunday 6th October 2024 Time: 10:00 - 17:00 hrs Location: Urban Room Folkestone, Harbour Street, CT20 1QN. Threading together different practices, perspectives and learnings that relate to alternative ways of connection to the natural world, Rhiana will create a short artist-documentary […]
Weekend of great concerts, including many free events. Friday 4 October 2pm Studio 69, Tontine St. Decomposing Bach's Art of Fugue with Terry Smith Saturday 5 October 10.30am Holy Trinity Church Pro/am day. Open rehearsals and concert. Pop in to hear the rehearsals, or come and watch the free concert at 5.30pm. 6 October 8pm-9.30pm […]
Join us for the launch of SALT + EARTH 2024: Festival of Landscape, Seascape & The Environment. Hear thoughts by the curators on how the artists have worked with ideas of sustainable farming practices, soil health, community farming, and human stories of movement. Climate emergency continues to be at the forefront of this festival, along […]
Francine Hajilou’s latest work is underpinned by notions of destruction, rebirth, loss, and change and uses ideas and language related to physical and psychological trauma as a springboard to investigate creatively a series of cataclysmic events in the natural world and to narrate life in the Anthropocene - Delve: a search for words that rhyme […]
Due to personal reasons, the Folkestone Baroque Ensemble have had to postpone their planned October 13th concert. I am, however, delighted to announce that our star Flautist, Lisete da Silva Bull and our wonderful harpsichordist, Robin Walker, will present instead their much lauded duo programme entitled 'A Journey to the Edge of Reason.' Their […]
The 2024 Folkestone Documentary Festival will feature the best in new international documentaries. 12 feature-length films, 12 shorts, a communal swim, drinks, food and parties, a free documentary industry day, and the chance to hear from amazing filmmakers in post-film Q&As in a friendly and fun atmosphere. Taking place in The Silver Screen, Folkestone's […]