Quarterhouse Events

Sat 20 Nov, 10am - Sun 19 Dec, 3:30pm

Join us on a Quest to reunite the Sea Gooseberries and reveal their message. “Now is the time of the Sea Gooseberries, they come and go...

Thu 9 Dec, 7:15pm

The Nutcracker is a family favourite at Christmas time and is one of the most delightful ways to discover the enchantment of ballet. The story...

Fri 10 Dec, 6pm

Strangelove Festival presents six video works made by visual artists in response to John Woolrich's music for string quartet created as part...

Fri 10 Dec, 7:45pm

Strangelove has asked John Woolrich to programme an evening in three parts of live and electronic experimental music.Dominic Muldowney has...

Sat 11 Dec, 6pm

Strangelove Festival’s second evening of films for the big screen are a selection of six international artists, each with very different...

Sat 11 Dec, 8pm

Shadows is a new performance collaboration between the artist Terry Smith and performer/composer Randolph Matthews.Shadows incorporates many...

Tue 14 Dec, 7:30pm

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed; a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science,...

Wed 15 Dec, 7:15pm

Into the romantic world of an idealistic painter, Cavaradossi, and his sensuous lover, Tosca, comes the malevolence of Baron Scarpia, Chief...

Fri 17 Dec, 10:30am - 12:30pm

An amazingly festive Christmas special from Folkestone favourites Mrs H & the Sing-along Band!A full line-up of Mrs H favourites including...

Sat 18 Dec, 6pm

Musician Randolph Matthews and Animator Lydia Hibbert spent this Autumn half-term working with groups of young people in Block 67 on a brand-new...

Sun 19 Dec, 3:30pm

Gather with us on Sunny Sands beach, where we will reunite the Sea Gooseberries and send them back to the sea together as part of a magical...

Wed 22 Dec, 3pm & 6pm, Thur 23 Dec, 11am & 2pm

Be utterly charmed this Yuletide by a unique live score played to the 1982 animation of Raymond Briggs’s magical story The Snowman featuring...

Fri 14 Jan, 4:30pm - Sun 16 Jan, 8:45pm

Folkestone’s first experimental poetry festival curated by artBLAB. Join all of the readings, performances and expert panels with an amazing...

Fri 14 Jan, 5pm

A lot of people don’t write because they are afraid of the white page, they don’t know how to start. But what if you were already given...

Fri 14 Jan, 6pm

Beyond Text is filled with events for poetry aficionados and lovers of experimental art, but is also extremely accessible to people who don’t...

Sat 15 Jan, 5pm

Plant inspired asemic writing.Did you know that you can write visual poems devoid of traditional meaning in language? Did you know that you...

Sat 15 Jan, 6pm

Where can poetry take you? What can a language do? Do we even need language? How to experiment with art? We will explore these questions together...

Sun 16 Jan, 3pm

We have invited a diverse range of poets and artists from Folkestone, Kent, London, and beyond to show the ins and outs of contemporary innovative...

Fri 21 Jan, 7pm

A special solo show playing material from the '2020' album and beyond Richard Dawson, the black humoured bard of Newcastle, returns on the...

Thu 27 Jan, 7pm

Tom Stoppard’s Olivier award-winning new play directed by Patrick Marber is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning...

Wed 9 Feb, 7:30pm

Meet Agbeke, Omotola and Aramide, three generations of proud African women connecting with each other across two continents, across time and...

Thu 17 Feb, 7pm

Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which...

Sat 19 Feb, 6pm

Thrillingly spectacular circus skills blend seamlessly with physical comedy, clowning, juggling, theatrical storytelling and slapstick in...

Sun 20 Feb, 11am

Thrillingly spectacular circus skills blend seamlessly with physical comedy, clowning, juggling, theatrical storytelling and slapstick in...

Sun 20 Feb, 2pm

A one hour circus skills workshop for 8 to 14 year old's with members of the company. Come and learn acrobatics, juggling and clowning! No...

Sun 20 Feb, 5pm

Thrillingly spectacular circus skills blend seamlessly with physical comedy, clowning, juggling, theatrical storytelling and slapstick in...

Wed 23 Feb, 7pm

For the first time in over a decade, Lau present a stripped-back tour, 'Unplugged'. Four times winners of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Group,...

Fri 25 Feb, 7:30pm

“I wrote this show over a year ago. It was relevant, funny, timely and I knew every single bit of it. Then one day in March the world ended....

Thu 3 Mar, 7:30pm

Physically exhilarating, candid and poignant, this internationally acclaimed circus-dance show highlights the relationship knots we tie ourselves...

Sat 5 Mar, 8pm

Ah, the 90s! The decade where Shaparak left an important part of her brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire…From indie discos to unflattering...

Thu 17 Mar, 7pm

A vividly original retelling of Sleeping Beauty, a mythic, big-hearted new musical that goes beyond the waking kiss. Deep in the wood, a lonely...

Thu 7 Apr, 8pm

BC Camplight, aka American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Christinzio, is back with new music and tales to tell. Landing somewhere...