AN OPEN CALL TO AN OPEN… WELL SOMETHING…
Hello! Hello! Hello! So, whilst we wait with anticipation to see what Creative Folkestone pulls out of their bag for the next Triennial (Fingers crossed for 2025) I’d like us to collaborate on a little thing I’m calling “The Other Folkestone Triennial”
Think of it at as an open ended, playfully mischievous creative endeavour of sorts for the people of this brilliant little town by the sea. I have no idea where it’ll go or how it’ll pan out, but I’ve been thinking it would be fun to do something together as a community.
So let’s start with a simple question. If you were given the opportunity. What would you create for this town? A mural? A sculpture perhaps or some form of installation? A performance or experience? An intervention? A demonstration? Maybe you’d just like to fill in some pot holes or plant some trees? Let’s not get bogged down in practicalities or tiresome details such as money, health and safety etc. Let’s begin with play and day dreaming. I’m genuinely curious to see what we could come up with. It might just fall flat on its face or just lead to a discussion and an exchange of ideas and concepts. But perhaps it could lead to something more?
Please post your ideas on social media using the hashtag #theotherfolkestonetriennial
But lets not rely on the old socials. That’s such a bore. Share them with each other in the pub, over a coffee or a walk around the harbour. Perhaps bring them to one of the “Thingy’s” I’ll be organising over the coming weeks and months around town…
#theotherfolkestonetriennial is on the loose in the widest, weirdest and most colourful possible connotations known to humankind. It appears ideas, conversations and rumours are already running amuck so I think it’s about time we have a little get together, drop in session “Thingy” at the Urban Rooms in town.
I’d like it to be a space to connect, talk, play and daydream. To share ideas and schemes and to encourage people to get creative even if they don’t consider themselves an “artist”. I’m asking “What would you create for this town if given the opportunity?”
One of my favourite suggestions to date is to sue Creative Folkestone under the trades descriptions act as a creative artwork in itself as the Triennial is no longer really a Triennial! Someone also suggested putting all the artworks around town we don’t like on eBay to raise some money for a community cause. I’d personally vote for that “Folkestone Is An Art School” one at the train station. That one really gets in my clack!
Anyway, come and play, talk and draw…
The Other Folkestone Triennial “Thingy”
Sunday 5th May / 12-3pm
The Urban Rooms / Harbour Street, Folkestone
Looking forward to seeing you 💋
