GOLDEN SLUMBERS | NEPALESE COMMUNITY CENTRE DANCERS | ConfiCo | BOOGIE BOOTH
Join us for a fun afternoon of outdoor dance around Folkestone’s Creative Quarter! Watch Moving Memory Dance Company explore the ups and downs of women’s lives, celebrating the need for rest and recovery.
Get involved with Jodie Cole’s Boogie Booth—a friendly dance session for all ages that includes sign language, making it easy and fun to move together.
Enjoy lively performances from Folkestone’s Nepalese Community Centre dancers and a preview of Give Me Space, a new piece by ConfiCo, Confidance's professional company resident at Creative Folkestone.
Come dance, watch, and celebrate local culture with us!
Time: 12.00
Location: Front of the Town Hall
Building on the Welsh concept of Cwtch – a loving hold – Golden Slumbers is a highly visual and physical outdoor show exploring the endless cycle of labour experienced by women through their lives, and celebrating everyone’s right to a little rest and recuperation.
Gathered around a feather-filled golden bed, a vibrant mix of Movers and Musicians celebrate the endless toil, the juggling of priorities, the thankless tasks, alongside the joy and strength of friendship and community founded in the everyday muck of life.
Liberace meets your mum sprinkled with a handful of Cwtch.
Moving Memory is a ground-breaking dance-theatre company that puts the older body centre stage. They’ve been making striking visual performances for public spaces, festivals and theatres for over a decade. Their work supports older people to have greater access to artistic and creative activities and challenges preconceptions of ageing.
Time: TBC
Location: Payers Park
At the dawn of the new millennium more Gurkha Veterans, Nepalese and their families began to settle, temporarily or permanently, in Folkestone, Hawkinge, Hythe and Dover areas and an urgent sense of need of a Community to bring all Nepalese together to integrate into the wider community by preserving Nepalese culture, tradition, ethos and identity and sharing eventualities as a community developed. Consequently, the Folkestone Nepalese Community (FNC) was, therefore, established in 2005 in Folkestone.
The Folkestone Nepalese Community (FNC) members present at the Special Meeting on 25th October 2020 consensually agreed that we change our the institution to the Charitable Incorporated Organisation Association Model, therefore a new Constitution has been written according to the Charity Commission guidelines for provision of orderly conduct of Community internal affairs, in dealing with other, and of governing Community members and a resolution passed by voting in favour of a new Constitution.
Time: TBC
Location: Payers Park
Expect great tunes, potential dad dancing & definite strutting of your funky stuff! Will you jump onto the Disco Dot and show us what you’ve got?
Boogie Booth is a live performance and dance experience. Visitors will meet our resident Boogie Boothers, Phantom Mercury & Dorothy, experts in the bum wiggle and the shoulder shimmy! They will take you on a spectacular tour through the world of dance from Jazz, Hip-Hop, to Contemporary, all within the magical Boogie Booth.
Created by Jodie Cole Dance in collaboration with dancers, Faith Prendergast and Karl Fagerlund Brekke
Supported by: Arts Council England, Kent County Council, The Marlow Theatre & 1 Degree East
Time: TBC
Location: Payers Park
Give Me Space is a bold and uncompromising dance work co-created with ConfiCo, Confidance's company of learning-disabled artists. This powerful performance places underrepresented voices at its centre—challenging assumptions, reclaiming space, and demanding to be seen and heard.
Through expressive movement, spoken word and striking visual imagery, the piece explores the pressure of navigating systems that limit choice and freedom. With rips, crumples and tears, the dancers confront how paper forms and bureaucracy dominate daily life—while suggesting that a new story is ready to be written.
Expect to feel joy, rage and hope as ConfiCo make honest artistic statements about identity, power and visibility.
Based in Folkestone, ConfiCo is leading the way for inclusion and representation in the South East. Since forming in 2019, the company has created five original works and performed at TEDx, The Albany, the Folkestone Triennial, and across education, arts and community settings. Their performances have reached over 1,500 people, many of whom are new to dance or from learning-disabled communities.
Give Me Space premiered in 2025 at the I’m Me Festival in York—a national platform for learning-disabled artists, supported by leading research into inclusion and representation. Its premiere positions the work as both high-quality and nationally significant.
You don’t need to know anything about dance to connect with this piece. It’s accessible, emotionally rich, and rooted in real experience. All Confidance events follow a relaxed performance approach, helping as many people as possible feel welcome.