SALT Festival // 2015 - Now

SALT Festival of the Sea and Environment will take you on a creative and inspiring journey through the landscape and culture of the coast. There are opportunities to walk, talk, make, write, observe, have fun, and share ideas over good food. SALT is co-curated by Creative Folkestone, Folkestone Fringe and Chris Poundwhite of Go to the Pine with ideas gathered from the local community. The festival explores the way coastal environments shape who we are and how we think, and asks what the future might hold for the people and places that exist on the edge.

In 2022, SALT developed to be SALT + EARTH: Festival of Landscape, Seascape & The Environment. For the first time, this iteration formed part of the bid for the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - AONB - & Parc Naturel Régional des Caps et Marais d’Opale in France to become the world’s first Cross-Channel UNESCO Global Geopark.