Exhibitions

21 - 24 October 2015 Family

Food Theatre Swims

Walks

A New Festival For coming to: Folkestone Harbour Arm Folkestone Quarterhouse W E Folkestone Library Talks The Brewery Tap Sunflower House Lindon Studio Workshops www.quarterhouse.co.uk Thursday 22 October EXHIBITION The Carpet Sea by Anne Wimsett Quarterhouse, 10am - 6pm, 22 - 24 Oct A fabric artwork by local artist Anne Wimsett will be on display in the Quarterhouse foyer for the duration of SALT. WORKSHOP Beach School for Educators Meet at Quarterhouse, 4.30pm - 6.30pm, Tickets £5 A session with Brain Waves Beach School for SALT is a new festival about the sea and educators, carers and teachers exploring the benefits the environment co-curated by Folkestone of ‘free play’ in natural environments, informal Quarterhouse, Folkestone Fringe and Karen mindfulness techniques and a nurturing approach. Shepherdson of Christ Church University. Talks, workshops, installations, RUSH HOUR ARTIST TALK shows and exhibitions will explore the unique Beyond the View: The Seaside as Photograph coastal environment of this region, the The Brewery Tap, 5pm - 6pm, Free Meet the artists and take this opportunity to learn more communities it sustains and consider what the about their work. See pg.4 for exhibition info. future might hold. FILM & TALK Channel Swimming Association Wednesday 21 October Channel Swim Night WORKSHOP Kanalschwimmer + Post Helen Lindon & Arts Development Show Talk A Table of Elements Workshop Quarterhouse, 6pm, Harbour Arm, 11am - 4pm, Tickets £20 Tickets £5 The artists, together with participants, will create a In this documentary, filmmaker Jörg Adolph follows large scale collaborative piece of work in response to three Channel swimmers as they undertake one of the their mood and weather on the day. greatest physical and mental challenges in the world.

LAUNCH PERFORMANCE SALT Launch Transport The Edge + Post Show Talk Folkestone Library, 6.45pm, Free Join us at Folkestone Library for the official launch of Folkestone Library, 7.30pm SALT: Sea and Environment Festival with co-curators Post show talk with Andy Stevens, a senior advisor on Karen Shepherdson, Diane Dever and Allegra Galvin. the management of ’s coasts. Don’t forget to book into The Edge following the launch to kick-start your festival!

PERFORMANCE Friday 23 October Transport LUNCHTIME WALK The Edge Foraging Walk followed by Lunch at Rocksalt Folkestone Library, 7.30pm Meet at Quarterhouse, 10.30am (Repeats 22 Oct 7.30pm, Lunch at Rocksalt, 12.30pm 24 Oct 2pm & 6.30pm) Tickets £45 Adults £10/ Conc £8 For over a decade now foragers have been supplying Performing four unique site- wild ingredients to the best chefs and restaurants specific performances, The around the UK. Join them for a foraging walk followed Edge takes us on a touching and fantastical journey by lunch at Rocksalt using your finds! through weather, time and friendship exploring the mythical place where the land meets the sea, posing RUSH HOUR ARTIST TALK vital questions about our future in a rapidly changing Between The Tides environment. For ages 14+, 60 mins. Harbour Arm, 5pm - 6pm, Free ‘Ingeniously told... an utter delight’ **** The Telegraph Meet the artists and take this opportunity to learn more on Transport’s 1001 Nights about their work. See pg.4 for exhibition info.

Box Office 01303 760 750 www.quarterhouse.co.uk Friday 23 October Saturday 24 October PERFORMANCE FAMILY TALK Smoking Apples Philip Hoare In Our Hands What Do Whales Do? Quarterhouse, 7.30pm Quarterhouse, 10am - 10.45am, Tickets £4 Adults £10/ Conc £8 What would it be like to be swallowed by a whale? Are Using puppetry and visual dolphins smarter than us? Could an elephant really theatre In Our Hands tells the stand on a whale’s tail? Find out the answers to all this story of Alf, a trawler fisherman and more with Philip Hoare, writer, broadcaster and whose experience and loyalty whalehead. For ages 5+. have put him, and his boat, at the top of the game. WORKSHOP But times are changing and so are the rules and Re-mapping Folkestone regulations surrounding the industry, will Alf adapt in Quarterhouse, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Tickets £5 order to survive? For ages 11+. Duration 60 mins. In this hands-on workshop led by Peter Vujakovic and Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University), we will explore how maps tell stories about the places we live by creating ‘mental maps’ and by contributing to an exciting new map of Folkestone. For ages 11+ (children must be accompanied). WALK/ WORKSHOP SALT Festival Feasts Smell Mapping the Seaside Saturday 24 October Meet at Quarterhouse, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Tickets £5 Artist Breakfasts Walking nose-first proposes a new understanding Brewery Tap, Lindon Studio, The of place and this workshop is designed to enable Harbour Arm participants to discover the hidden smells of 10am, Tickets £5 Folkestone and then to map the experience. We invite you to breakfast with SALT artists TALK with delicious kedgeree by The Pullman: Susie Parr Talk & Swim Seasoned rice with cumin and curried spices, pan fried with peas, diced tomato Brewery Tap, 11am - 12pm, and fresh parsley. Topped with smoked Tickets £7 mackeral and soft boiled egg. Plus tea or Passionate outdoor swimmer coffee. Susie Parr explores the fascinating social and cultural Fish Pie Lunch history of bathing in Britain’s Quarterhouse, 12.30pm, Tickets £7 seas, lakes, ponds and rivers. The talk will be followed A traditional British dish by The Pullman, by a group swim from Sunny Sands and a lunch break made using the best local fish. A hearty mix with fish pie available at Quarterhouse. of poached fish; cod, smoked haddock, PERFORMANCE salmon and prawns served in a rich cream Tall Tales Big Moves sauce. Topped with creamy mash and Sea Story grilled Canterbury Ceddar. Served with a Quarterhouse pinch of autumn greens. 11am & 2.30pm Sea Shanty performance & Group Adults £6/ Children £5/ Dinner Family £20 Harbour Arm, 6.30pm, Tickets £12 Weaving together 100 stories Join us for our end of festival finale written specially for us by celebrating our coastal environment! Enjoy young people from across the UK, let Sea Story take Spanish classics from The Sole Kitchen; you on a magical journey over, under, and through the empanadas, Andulusian paella, flao sea. Expect storms, shipwrecks, mermaids, jellyfish (Spanish cheesecake) accompanied by and a very curious sea creature. Suitable for ages 5+ Sangria with a twist. With live music from TALK the based Shipwright Shanty Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association crew and singer-songwriter Emily Watts. Wild Swimming Walks Quarterhouse, 1.30pm - 2.30pm, Tickets £7 Join the famous swimming ladies of Hampstead’s Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, discussing swimming walks of the South East. www.quarterhouse.co.uk Box Office 01303 760 750 www.quarterhouse.co.uk Saturday 24 October Exhibitions / Installations PERFORMANCE Fevered Sleep Transport It’s The Skin You’re Living In The Edge + Post Show Talk Quarterhouse, 22-24 Oct, 10am - 6pm Folkestone Library, 2pm Made from broken images, a dismantled polar bear Post show talk with Jo Royle, renowned skipper and costume, repeated actions and walking, walking, environmentalist. walking. A strange, sad and funny meditation on being human and being animal, lost in a changing world. TALK Philip Hoare Folkestone Arts Collective The Sea Inside Sunflower House, 22-24 Oct, 10am - 6pm Harbour Arm, 2pm - 3pm, Tickets £7 An exhibition featuring sea themed work by the Author, presenter and curator Philip Hoare, who has Folkestone Arts Collective. Artists include Malcolm been writing about, travelling on, and swimming in the Allen, Phyllis McDowell, Mike Tedder and Kamilla sea for 15 years, discusses what the sea says about Sztyber. our past, present and future. Feral Theatre & ONCA FAMILY WORKSHOP Future Coast Installation Feral Theatre Quarterhouse, 22-24 Oct, 10am - 6pm Lost Species Workshop What would you say if you could leave a message Quarterhouse, 3pm, Free, drop-in until 6pm for yourself from an imagined new world? Brighton’s Learn how species have been affected by commercial Onca Arts & Ecology encourage us all to consider the fishing and what we can do to help. Help create a realities of a climate-changed future. shrine to celebrate, honour and remember two special *Drop-in workshop Sat 24 Oct, Quarterhouse, 3pm - fish. For all ages. 6pm Helen Lindon & Dover Arts Development FAMILY WORKSHOP A Table of Elements Terrarium Workshop Lindon Studio, 22-24 Oct, 10am - 6pm Quarterhouse, 3.30pm, groups of up to 4, £20 An exhibition of work by Helen Lindon, Joanna Jones Create your own micro climate in the Coastal and Clare Smith exploring ‘the elements’ and the Terrarium workshop led by artist Matt Rowe. related ideas of climate and weather. Participants will explore the shoreline and respond to *Workshop Wed 21 Oct, Harbour Arm, 11am the impact of man-made debris’s present around our Emma Critchley coastal landscape. In Our Blood TALK Harbour Arm, Fri 12pm - 10pm, Sat 9am - 10pm Prof. Jon French At the foot of Cliftonville lies a 4-acre tidal pool, a Zen and the Art of Living with 21st Century concrete remnant of ’s heyday. This immersive Coastal Change piece of slow-cinema observes the community of Harbour Arm, 3.30pm - 4.30pm, Tickets £7 people who regularly bathe in the wild yet contained What will our coasts look like in 2100? Prof. Jon space. 30 min loop, screening every 1/2 hr. French (Head of Geography at UCL) explores the Karen Shepherdson & Nigel Breadman relationship between models and reality, science and Between the Tides society. Harbour Arm, Fri 12pm - 10pm, Sat 9am - 10pm This exhibition examines how the coastal environment WORKSHOP impacts upon the photographic practice of both Nigel Sea Shanty Workshop Breadman and Karen Shepherdson. Quarterhouse, 4pm - 5.30pm, Tickets £5 *Rush hour Artist Talk: Fri 23 Oct, Harbour Arm, 5pm Improve your nautical vocals and learn how to sing a selection of tradional sea shanties. For all ages. Beyond the View: The Seaside as Photograph Brewery Tap, 22-24 Oct, 10am - 6pm TALK An exhibition that explores the work of commercial Sea Cocktails seaside photgraphers of the 20th Century. We Harbour Arm, 5pm, Cocktails £4 encourage you to bring your own images to add to Warm the cockles of your heart with a Dark ‘N Stormy the collection to tell the story of Folkestone’s coastal cocktail, made with dark rum and ginger beer served community. over ice and garnished with a slice of lime. *Rush hour Artist Talk: Thu 22 Oct, Brewery Tap, 5pm

PERFORMANCE Transport The Edge Folkestone Library, 6.30pm Box Office 01303 760 750 www.quarterhouse.co.uk