SALT+EARTH 2024 Launch
Join us for the launch of SALT + EARTH 2024: Festival of Landscape, Seascape & The Environment.
- 4 Oct 2024
- 18.30 - 19.30
- Folkestone
Location: The Clearing, Quarterhouse, 49 Tontine Street, Ct20 1TJ
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 with the celebration of the extraordinary landscape that surrounds us.
We will hear more about the ongoing cultural and political ambition to establish a UNESCO Geopark joining this part of the status whilst raising a glass to thank the artists and speakers who have created the wonderful eighth edition of this festival.
Accessibility: Quarterhouse aims to be accessible to all, offering a varied programme of events, catering for all of our customer’s needs. It is a wheelchair accessible venue with ground floor spaces available for seated performances and two balcony wheelchair spaces available for standing events. Quarterhouse is fitted with a Hearing Loop System. We recommend getting in contact with us prior to booking or on arrival so we can assist you with the best seats for the system. Quarterhouse has a lift for accessing all floors, including the bar, toilets and balcony. Toilets are fully wheelchair accessible and can be found on the ground and first floor. Please contact the box office on 01303 760750 for any of the following: Special seating requests, wheelchair users or group bookings.
SALT+EARTH Festival 2024
SALT+EARTH: MARLING Exhibition4th - 6th October 2024, 10am - 5pmExperience a series of sculptural and planting experiments, inspired by the history of dene holes, subterranean mythologies and agriculture past, present and future in Kent. FolkestoneSave SALT+EARTH: MARLING Exhibition 4th - 6th October 2024 to favourites
SALT+EARTH: The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie Exhibition4th - 6th October 2024, 10am - 5pmA filmic installation by the artists, Alison Neighbour and Gemma Riggs, of The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie. FolkestoneSave SALT+EARTH: The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie Exhibition 4th - 6th October 2024 to favourites
SALT+EARTH: Trails Interwoven Exhibition4th - 6th October 2024, 10am - 5pmArtist, Rhiana Bonterre presents a short artist-documentary film, broadly depicting the work of various commissioned artists for SALT+EARTH Festival, alongside her own reflections. FolkestoneSave SALT+EARTH: Trails Interwoven Exhibition 4th - 6th October 2024 to favourites
The Chalk Path at Sunset: Part two21st September 2024, 6pmJoin us for this special occasion where artists Alison Neighbour and Elodie Merland will lead a ceremonial version of The Chalk Path for a small… Caps et Marais d'Opale Regional Natural ParkSave The Chalk Path at Sunset: Part two 21st September 2024 to favourites




