Fun things to do Folkestone (GB)

Bill Woodrow, The Ledge is most popular around 1 AM on Thursdays. It's most quiet on Fridays.

This crystalline modernist architectural composition, echoing the white cliffs between Folkestone and Dover, supports figures of an Inuit and a seal, and sits on a black puddle shape. Sited by the shore, the strong horizontals suggest the rising water level resulting from the disappearing polar ice caps, an iceberg melting into a pool of oil. The human figure and its ecological counterpart the seal represent an ancient way of life, standing on thin ice.

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Folkestone Artworks: Christina Iglesias, Towards the Sound of Wilderness is most popular around 12 AM on Thursdays. It's most quiet on Sundays.

Cristina Iglesias's architectural intervention on the ramparts of Martello 4 offers the illusion of an entrance into another world. The sculpture allows visitors a chance to view this historic monument which remained hidden by a screen of trees and shrubs for many years. Visitors need to negotiate a path cut through the shrubs and trees to find a mirrored walk-in structure clad with resin foliage.

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Pablo Bronstein, Beach Hut is most popular around 5 AM on Thursdays. It's most quiet on Fridays.

Bronstein has described his Beach Hut in the style of Nicholas Hawksmoor as a 'monument to architecture', paying homage to the quintessentially English architectural vocabulary of the 18th Century Baroque architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor. Situated next to other brightly coloured beach huts on the water front, alongside the Council's mundane arrangements for park maintenance, Bronstein's sculpture's dramatic presence invokes a delightful and piquant sense of folly.

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Morehall Recreation Ground is most popular around 1 PM on Wednesdays. It's most quiet on Saturdays.

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It's most quiet on Mondays.

The Luckiest Place on Earth is installed beneath the railway bridge over the main road at Folkestone Central Station. It has the effect of transforming the bridge into a Lucky Gateway to the town through artistic sleight of hand. Below, at pedestrian street level, the Recycling Point for Luck and Wishes is embedded in the bridge structure alongside the street crossing. Strange Cargo invites us to affirm our own perception and relationship to luck, and how our attitudes might affect our future.

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