Kent Downs Salt and Earth Festival 23 - 25 September 2022

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SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Seascape & the Environment 23 - 25 September     Full Festival Programme   From Friday 23 to Sunday 25 September we will be celebrating the seascape, landscape and geology of the Kent Downs and Cross-Channel Geopark.  SALT + EARTH Festival invites you to join artists, creatives, and scientists exploring everything from geography to geology, sounds to sculptures, food to Deep Time. There will be walks, talks, feasts, exhibitions, installations, music, sea swims, and more. There will be with something for everyone to enjoy with events in Folkestone, Dover, Wye, and Hucking Estate. We are proud to be working with our Festival Partners: Creative Folkestone, Folkestone Fringe, White Cliffs Countryside Partnership, and Shape Arts.   Full Festival Programme   Almost all events are free but some you need to book Festival artists include Alison Neighbour, Anne Deeming, Craig Gell, Dr. Legumes, Fiorino & Ferreira, Judith Anketell, Manuel Vason, Origins Untold, Rubiane Maia, Sara Trillo, Aaron Kobb, and SITE.   Dr Anjana Khatwa Fri 23 Sept, 7pm Free, booking required Opening the Festival is Earth Scientist and Presenter Dr Anjana Khatwa, aka Jurassic Girl. Anjana’s work helps to understand how our planet evolved, changed and survived over 4.6 billion years and how this knowledge can help us prepare for an uncertain future. She weaves her identity as a South Asian woman proudly into her work, bringing an informed and intelligent richness to narratives about deep time, landscapes and natural history. Sara Trillo - In Search of Lost Chalk in Wye Sat 24 Sep, 10am - 1pm Free, booking required A guided walk that will speculate on the holes in the landscape known locally as dene holes led by visual artist Sara Trillo. The walk will consider the lost ancient chalk workings of uncertain age around Wye   Dr Legumes - Walking Roots Sun 25 Sep, 10am £20, booking required Join Dr Legumes on a walking journey up onto the Kent Downs as they celebrate the local landscape, its flora and fauna. They will be drawing on the abundance of wild food available to us by creating a wild herb seasoning recipe and mapping a trail of where these wonderful ingredients can be found. Professor Sanjeev Gupta - Megaflood Sun 25 Sep, 3pm Free, booking required   When engineers digging the Channel Tunnel finally hacked through the chalk and shook hands in December 1990, it was the first time Britain and mainland Europe had been linked for hundreds of millennia. Now we know what separated those land masses in the first place: a megaflood. Professor and Presenter, Sanjeev Gupta, will give an illustrated talk on the megaflood and will then be joined for an in-conversation with Melanie Wrigley from White Cliffs Countryside Partnership.    Melanie Wrigley -  Fossil Foray Sat 24 Sep, 4pm Free, booking required A walk down onto Folkestone Warren beach to search amongst the pebbles washed out of the clay by the sea. Search for fossil ammonites, belemnites, bivalves, and even and occasional crab or tooth! Hear about the rocks, minerals and fossils and geology processes of our fantastic Warren and how the Dover Straits were formed. The Warren is largest landslip site in Europe. Origins Untold - chalk, grass, land Sun 25 Sep, 11am Free, booking required   Origins Untold invite you to join a walk-turned-procession in Folkestone. On the way, conversations about land, bodies and belonging will be interspersed with performances, leading to an outdoor exhibition of artwork.     Full Festival Programme     Help Shape Our UNESCO bid Tell us about your favourite place in the Kent Downs     A UNESCO Global Geopark contains within it 'Geosites' which tell the story of the Geopark - not just its geological heritage, but also the story of human activity in the Geopark (our cultural heritage) and the story of the plants, animals and other wildlife of the geopark (our biological heritage). We need you to tell us what sites in the Geopark are most special to you. It might be the place you go to find the best fossils, or the spot on your favourite dog walk with incredible views of the Downs. You could ask yourself the question: if someone came to visit, where is the one place in the Kent Downs I would take them?   Tell us about your favourite place       More from the Kent Downs For even more news from the Kent Downs AONB, you can find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.             Copyright © 2022 Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Penstock Barn West Canterbury Road, East Brabourne Ashford, Kent TN25 5LL United Kingdom