Geodiversity Day 2025

Geodiversity Day invites everyone to explore, experience, and connect with the landscapes, heritage, and living geology of the Kent Downs and Cross-Channel Geopark. This year’s theme, One Earth, Many Stories, highlights how the same chalk, clay, and coastal formations have shaped communities, inspired creativity, and fostered connections across generations. From performances to workshops and immersive walks, the day reveals the stories written in stone and in the lives of those who live alongside them.

Event Highlights:

• ‘Ode to Channel’ performance in France (20 September): A celebration of the Channel’s landscapes through music and storytelling.

• ‘How Lies the Land?’ – Folkestone Triennial 2025 (19 Jul – 19 Oct 2025): Explore the connections between geology, art, and landscape across Folkestone.

• Folkestone Fringe 2025 (19 Jul – 12 Oct 2025): Includes a range of exhibitions, workshops, and performances, featuring:

  • Cabinet of (un)Natural History (6 October): exhibition of gault clay ‘future’ fossils, by Rosalie Morris

  • Family workshop Facing Each Other (11 October): by Deborah Crofts

• The Chalk Path – Guided walk (4 Oct 2025): A Guided Walk with artist Alison Neighbour

• The Chalk Path – audio walk (1 Sep – 19 Oct 2025): Alison Neighbour’s audio trail guides visitors through Kent Downs’ chalk landscape

• Folkestone Downs Walk and Book Signing (10 October): A walk and book signing with GeoAmbassador Maryanne Grant Traylen

• Endurance (10-12 October): an exhibition by GeoAmbassador Bryan Hawkins
• S:WASH / D:RIFT (11 October): Fat Lady Opera presents THE LAYING DOWN – a finale performance featuring new choral, orchestral and choreographic works.