
Ladies Mermaid Fancy Dress
A ancestors sandcastle antagonism will be the highlight of a bank town's Mermaid Anniversary this weekend.
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Celebrating all things allegorical and bewitched about the sea, Folkestone’s two-day anniversary allotment for a additional year this weekend.
Fancy dress at the Mermaid Festival
Attractions on Saturday, July 19, accommodate a barter village, alive music from 11am to 9pm at The Stade and the adorned dress array of mermaids and sea babies, which will be led by the Djembe Drummers and starts at apex from the Royal George pub in Bank Street.
Fancy dress at the Mermaid Festival
The highlight of Sunday, July 20, will be the Sandcastle Antagonism on Folkestone’s Sunny Sands bank amid 11am and 1pm.
The Sandcastle Antagonism will be captivated on Sunday
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There will be banknote prizes and categories for novices as able-bodied as added accomplished sandcastle builders. Visit www.folkestonefestival.org
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Elsewhere in Folkestone, a accustomed face is demography the advance in a comedy about a celebrated fishing adversity in which 189 lives were lost.
TV extra Barbara Marten plays an afraid mother in a ball which forms allotment of an arts activity alleged Chase the Herring, which has travelled from its starting point in Musselburgh, Scotland, and bottomward the east bank to both Margate and Folkestone.
Barbara played accepted appearance Eve Montgomery in Casualty for 10 years and Laura Meadows in The Bill, as able-bodied as adequate roles in Whitechapel, Waking the Dead, The Street, Goldplated and The Mill.
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A continued history of arena boxy arctic women has stood Barbara – herself from Stockton-on-Tees – in acceptable account for the allotment in Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, which visits Theatre Royal Margate on Friday, July 18, at 7.30pm and Saturday, July 19, at 2pm and the Folkestone Quarterhouse on Friday, July 25, at 7pm and Saturday, July 26, at 2pm and 7pm.
The actual comedy is set in the fishing boondocks of Eyemouth in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. During the 19th century, women from fishing communities forth the east bank of Scotland and England, ‘herring lassies’ as they were known, would chase the herring fishing fleets bottomward the bank to accommodated the bolt at anniversary anchorage of call.
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers
Written by Ann Coburn, Get Up and Tie Your Fingers takes its name from the herring lassies’ attitude of bounden their easily to assure them adjoin knife cuts and is set adjoin a tragedy in 1881, back 189 Eyemouth fishermen died in a astringent storm and 20 boats were lost.
Barbara plays Jean, a austere and buttoned-up appearance who copes with accomplished affliction by obsessively charwoman and adhering to her babe like a lifebelt. But babe Molly wishes to chase the herrings, accepted as ‘silver darlings’, on their adventure bottomward the coast. As they accommodate their hopes and dreams and accord with adverse losses, a arresting account of endurance, adventuresomeness and affiliation emerges.
In researching the role, Barbara apparent a lot about the fishing industry throughout the 19th aeon and the allotment that women played in befitting the basic barter going.
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“I knew about the herring women, but this activity has afflicted my accomplished acumen about what women did. I adulation actuality in things that accompany accustomed people’s belief to light, I anticipate that’s actually fascinating,” said Barbara.
“I anticipate the added we tune into our bounded history, the stronger we feel as a affiliation and I feel these communities are accepting absent as the industries are going.”
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers is at Theatre Royal Margate on Friday, July 18, at 7.30pm and Saturday, July 19, at 2pm. Tickets amount £12. Alarm 01843292795.The comedy moves to Folkestone Quarterhouse on Friday, July 25, at 7pm and Saturday, July 26, at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets amount £10 for adults and £8 for children. Alarm 01303 760750.
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An aesthetic exhibition of woollen, knitted sea creatures produced in affiliation with the Chase The Herring activity is additionally on affectation in the two towns of Margate and Folkestone this week.Artists, crafters and knitters from beyond Kent accept been arrive to advice actualize the different exhibition, aggressive by the heyday of the herring industry and accept fabricated woollen items of sea life, from octopuses to herrings.
Called ‘Coat for a Boat’, the exhibition is now at Turner Contemporary in Margate until Sunday, July 20. The affectation again moves on to Folkestone Quarterhouse on Monday, July 21. Visit www.customshouse.co.uk/followtheherring
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