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SUMMARY:Coffee Afternoon & 'Folkestone's Future' Legislative Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Free coffee afternoon with an introduction to a Legislative Theatre Project by Matthew Hahn of FPAC.\nThere will be an informal talk at 3.15pm on the project by Matthew Hahn.  However\, you can join our drop-in session at The Community Room on The Bayle for free refreshments at any time between 3 – 5 pm and find out more about the Folkestone Performing Arts Company. \nPlease note the Coffee Afternoon is on Thursday 9 October in The Community Room.  The Legislative Theatre Project takes place on Saturday 18 October in Sunflower House. \nIf you would like to register your interest in FPAC’s Legislative Theatre Project\, see the event page on the Folkestone Fringe website for details or e-mail folkestonepac@gmail.com.  (You do not need to register for the Coffee Afternoon – just turn up!) \n  \nABOUT THE THEME & GUEST\n\n \n\nThe Folkestone Performing Arts Company is thrilled to announce that they will be participating in the FOLKESTONE FRINGE: FLINT & CLAY 2025.  \n\n\nOn the 18th of October\, FPAC and local residents will co-create a short piece of theatre based on lived experiences addressing local or national policy challenges.  At 5pm\, they will perform this play in front of an audience of key policy makers\, business owners\, political leaders and others with the hope of legislating systemic change within the community.  \n\n\nThe Folkestone Performing Arts Company’s Legislative Theatre Project will bring the local community & and policy-makers together to co-create innovative and effective solutions to complex challenges that are faced by Folkestone residents.  \n\n\nIn it\, a short play is created which ‘ends badly’ for the protagonist or main character.  The play is then ‘rewound’ and the audience is asked to come up on stage to try out other\, more positive\, strategies to have a different outcome.  In this way\, the actors and the audience ‘rehearse life’ within the safety of ‘play acting’.   \n\n\n\nABOUT LEGISLATIVE THEATRE\n\nA Theory of Change is a method that explains how a given intervention\, or set of interventions\, can lead to a specific developmental change.  Theatre can be a powerful tool in enacting such a theory by supporting systemic change and / or policy development.  This can be demonstrated by the interactive ‘Legislative Theatre’ process:  Legislative Theatre opens the possibility for change to be catalysed and creates a platform for the advocacy of rights. \n\n\nWorking beyond issue awareness and community building\, Legislative Theatre allows the participants to address the obstacles or oppressions they face to key policymakers in the audience who then interact with the play with the hope that these policymakers will then legislate systemic change in the community. This form uses participatory and interactive theatre techniques to examine communication breakdown and power imbalance. \n\nHOW DOES IT WORK?  \n\n\nCreate:  Community members create an original play based on lived experiences\, addressing local or national policy challenges:  Our communities face big challenges — climate change\, social exclusion\, declining trust in public institutions\, etc. Meaningful public participation can help governments address these challenges.  \n\n\nPerform:  Community members perform their original play to audience members who can make systemic change and those who have lived experience of the presented challenges. \n\n\nAct:  Audience members step onstage as the ‘protagonist’ in the play to improvise potential alternatives to the problems presented\, testing new rules and policies in real time.  The community actors become ‘antagonists’ gently pushing back on any alternatives that are suggested by audience members.  \n\n\nPropose: Audiences\, advocates and policy-makers collaboratively shape these alternative ideas into specific policy proposals\, followed by deliberation\, debate\, and amendments to embed systemic change. \n\n\nVote: Everyone present votes on the proposals – using theatre to spark concrete change. \n\n\nCommit: Policymakers and advocates make commitments to action based on the proposals.  \n\n\nThrough this participatory policymaking\, community members propose\, debate\, and vote on new policies and policy changes.  You can find further information about Legislative Theatre here.    \n\n\nSome material adapted & developed from The People Act Legislative Theatre Resources [www.thepeopleact.org/resources]\n\nABOUT THE GUEST\n\n\nYou may remember our friends at the Folkestone Performing Arts Company (FPAC) from their preview of a dramatisation of The Leech of Folkestone from The Ingoldsby Legends or their involvement in our Community 50/50 event at the beginning of the year. \n\nFPAC is an artist-led international theatre company creating vibrant\, relevant and compelling theatre through the celebration of local stories.​ \nAlongside a professional Ensemble\, theu also support developing artists through Community Acting Group and Writing for Performance sessions. \nFPAC also offers a range of workshops for schools through their professional ensemble.  \n\nArtistic Director Matthew Hahn\, who will be facilitating the workshop\, has over 20 years of experience as a theatre for development practitioner in working with communities in struggle\, he has co-created interactive and participatory international theatre projects focusing on developing and enabling young people\, social cohesion\, peace-making and conflict resolution in the Global South & North.   \n\n  \nABOUT THE VENUE\n\nThe Community Room is located at 19 The Bayle\, where Dance Easy used to stand\, in an attractive Georgian-style townhouse.  It is run by the Sunflower House team on a partnership model\, where local groups and organisations offering community benefits with similar values are able to utilise the space. \n  \nTRAVEL TO THE VENUE\n\nBy Bus:\nThe venue is about a 600 metre walk (one-third of a mile) from the temporary bus station.  Head through Bouverie Place shopping centre and down West Cliff Gardens (between the HSBC and Lloyds banks) and straight through the churchyard\, turning left when you get to the British Lion pub.  The room is opposite the Bayle Pond. \nFor step-free access avoiding cobblestones\, go down the pedestrian precinct to the Town Hall and turn right onto Church Street.  Follow that to the end (past the school)\, turn left and veer left as above. \n  \nBy Car:\nThe nearest Pay and Display car park is Upper Payers Park\, accessed from Dover Road (passing the F51 skate park) next to the amusements where the Banksy was located originally.  Walk to the end of Payers Park\, turn right onto the Old High Street and walk up to the top.  Turn left\, then take the first right.  The building will be on your right after the Glendale building. \nFor step-free access avoiding cobblestones\, walk out to Dover Road and turn left.  Walk around the amusements building to the front\, carry on down Rendezvous Street\, cross the road and turn left at the gate (onto what is still Rendezvous Street).  Walk to the top\, turn left onto Church Street\, follow it to the end (past the school)\, turn left onto The Bayle and follow the road\, which veers left.  The room is on the left\, opposite the Bayle Pond. \nShare This:
URL:https://www.newfolkestonesociety.org.uk/event/coffee-afternoon-legislative-theatre/
LOCATION:The Community Room\, 19 The Bayle\, Folkestone\, CT20 1SQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Coffee Afternoons
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SUMMARY:Samuel Plimsoll
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Nicolette Jones.\n  \nABOUT THE TALK\nIn the second half of the nineteenth century\, a remarkable campaign stirred a nation to save the lives of the hundreds of British sailors a year who drowned for preventable reasons. Overloaded and poorly maintained ships set sail\, their doomed crews sacrificed while greedy shipowners profited from insurance. Samuel Plimsoll exposed these scandals\, became a national hero\, and led a dramatic social and political movement for maritime reform which still resonates today. \nNicolette Jones’s illustrated talk chronicles the campaign of the man who spent his later years in Folkestone and was laid to rest at St Martin’s Church\, Cheriton. \nCopies of Nicolette’s award-winning book The Plimsoll Sensation\, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week\, will be available at a special discount (cash only). \nDoors open at 2pm for a 2.30pm start.  ​Refreshments will be served. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nNicolette Jones is a writer\, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for all the national broadsheets and the book-trade press. Her book about the Victorian philanthropist Samuel Plimsoll and his campaign on behalf of sailors\, The Plimsoll Sensation (Little\, Brown/Abacus)\, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week\, received widespread critical acclaim\, and won maritime literature prizes in the UK and USA. \nShe collaborated with the author and illustrator Raymond Briggs on an overview of his work Blooming Books (Cape)\, and has co-edited an award-winning guide to English usage. Specialising in literary and arts journalism\, she is the children’s books editor of the Sunday Times\, and has been a reviewer\, feature-writer\, diarist\, sub-editor and book-prize judge — from the Orange (now Baileys) prize for fiction to children’s book awards. She regularly chairs events at literary festivals\, and has directed the children’s programme at the Oxford Literary Festival. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Eleanor Farjeon award for her ‘outstanding contribution to the world of children’s books’.  She is a trustee of the National Academy of Writing\, which runs creative writing courses for aspiring authors. \nOriginally from Leeds\, she was a scholar at St Hilda’s College\, Oxford. She spent a year as Henry Fellow in the graduate school of English at Yale University\, where she was a teaching assistant on the celebrated Daily Themes writing course. She has two children and lives in London; her husband is also an award-winning writer and journalist. \n  \nABOUT THE VENUE\n\nThe Back Hall is located within the Cornerstone Centre\, formerly the United Reformed Church\, next to Folkestone Central station.  It is located on Castle Hill Avenue\, near the junction with Cheriton Road.  From the main entrance to the church\, walk towards Kingsnorth Gardens and take the path behind the church\, just before Bus Stop C. \nThe hall is on the ground floor with no stairs and has a disabled toilet.  There is a slight step into the entrance and a couple of 90 degree turns to enter.  If you have any accessibility needs\, please Contact Us so we can make arrangements for you\, including on-site parking. \n  \nTRAVEL TO THE VENUE\n\nBy Bus:\nThe venue is close to the Folkestone Central stops. \nStop A serves buses heading towards Folkestone town centre from Canterbury (16/17)\, Cheriton (71/71A)\, Creteway Down / Dover Road (76) and Hawkinge (73). \nStop B serves buses departing from Folkestone Bus Station towards Broadmead (74)\, Canterbury (16/17)\, Cheriton (71/71A)\, Creteway Down / Dover Road (76)\, Dover via Temple Ewell (91A) and Hawkinge (73). \nFor timetables\, to book tickets and to check for any journey delays or cancellations\, visit the Stagecoach website or download the app. \n  \nBy Car:\nThere is a controlled parking zone around the Cornerstone Centre.  Parking can be found on Shorncliffe Road or the dual carriageway part of Castle Hill Avenue.  Alternatively\, you can pre-book a space at Folkestone Central station via the APCOA website or app. \n  \nBy Train:\nTake the train to Folkestone Central station (one stop on from Folkestone West coming from London/Ashford).  When exiting the station\, turn right\, follow the road to the end\, then walk under the bridge on your right.  The Cornerstone Centre is the church in front of you. \nFor timetables\, to book tickets and to check for any journey delays or cancellations\, visit the Southeastern website. \n  \nBOOKING TICKETS\n\nTickets will be available on the door subject to availability – cash or card accepted. \nTo guarantee your place\, book on Ticketsource without fees by clicking the ticket below. \n\n\n \nShare This:
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LOCATION:The Cornerstone Centre\, 60 Castle Hill Avenue\, Folkestone\, Kent\, CT20 2QR\, United Kingdom
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