venues, briefs and events
01 leas lift | 02 beach hut | 03 DIY fringe | 04 leas lift sound
club shepway has been given the opportunity to use folkestone’s historic funicular lift throughout the triennale of 2008. the space, comprising the carriages and the lower entrance, is available for the fourteen consecutive weekends of the town’s international art event.
we hereby invite artists and performers, individually or as groups, to develop art events and interventions suitable for this unique and idiosyncratic venue. the lift offers panoramic views to the foreshore below and over to france.
the lift is the remaining survivor of a series of lifts, developed during the 1880s, by the folkestone pier and lift company ltd. it’s purpose was to overcome the peculiar geography of folkestone’s seafront and to connect the different social worlds of the foreshore and leas.
remember, the lift takes 40 seconds to travel from the foreshore to the leas. so, we are offering a captive audience, but only for a short while! It’s a little and often kind of thing.
club shepway invites you to collaborate with us and to re-invent this unique space as a contemporary art event during the summer
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