Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October, 2024
SALT + EARTH: Festival of Landscape, Seascape & The Environment is returning to Folkestone this autumn! Join us for a weekend of artworks, walks, workshops, community gatherings and more.
This October, Folkestone Fringe, Creative Folkestone and the Kent Downs National Landscape will present a programme of events and activities to help you to connect with the incredible natural environment on Folkestone’s doorstep.
Over the weekend, artists, creatives and scientists will explore everything from sustainable farming practices, climate change, community agriculture and human stories intertwined with the land.
SALT+EARTH: A Reflection of the Self – Art and Archaeology of East Wear Bay26th September - 8th October 2024, 10am-4pmCanterbury Archaeological Trust are pleased to present their collaborative exhibition, ‘A Reflection of the Self: Art and Archaeology of East Wear Bay’. FolkestoneSave SALT+EARTH: A Reflection of the Self – Art and Archaeology of East Wear Bay 26th September - 8th October 2024 to favourites
SALT+EARTH: Terra Firma Framed4th - 6th October 2024, 10am - 5pmThe Kent Downs National Landscape is partnering with youth empowerment charity Positive View Foundation on a series of photography-based workshops to explore the wide-ranging topic… FolkestoneSave SALT+EARTH: Terra Firma Framed 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
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: Folklore and Medicinal Uses of Chalk Downland Plants6th October 2024, 2pm - 4:30pmJoin a slow, gentle walk around the relatively flat White Cliffs of Dover National Trust land to find, stop and hear about the amazing variety… DoverSave SALT+EARTH: Folklore and Medicinal Uses of Chalk Downland Plants 6th October 2024 to favourites
2024 Theme: “where it all began…SOIL”
SALT+EARTH 2024 explores the foundational role of soil in our lives. This dynamic three-day event will immerse you in the critical environmental issues shaping our future, from innovative agricultural practices to the pressing impacts of climate change.
History of the SALT+EARTH Festival
SALT Festival began in 2016. Based in Folkestone, the festival aims to inspire and connect people to the coastal landscape and raise awareness for the urgent issue of climate change. Previous editions of the festival have included activities such as communal sea swims, boat building, rewilding projects, and live performances.
The expanded festival will now look beyond the coast to the wild and rural parts of Kent and northern France. SALT + EARTH is an ambitious festival that now aims to raise awareness of the climate emergency and our UNESCO Cross-Channel Geopark bid.
SALT + EARTH is co-produced by Creative Folkestone, Folkestone Fringe, and Kent Downs National Landscape, in support of the Cross-Channel Geopark. SALT + EARTH explores the way the natural environments around us shape who we are, and asks what the future might hold for those living on the edge.
The festival is funded through The National Lottery Heritage Fund and DEFRA’s Farming in Protected Landscapes programme. Thanks to National Lottery Players for making this possible.
