Vernacular Spectacular - documenting the Folkestone Leas Lift
Date uploaded: November 1, 2009
Club Shepway introduce their latest publication Vernacular Spectacular, documenting the Leas Lift through its last season before closure.
For the duration of the summer months, from June to September 2008, Club Shepway was given use of Folkestone's historic funicular lift. Once an emblem of the area's Victorian heyday, carrying passengers from the up-market Leas Promenade to the bustling seafront and pier below, the lift now stands atop the rubble foreshore of a run down seafront awaiting regeneration.
Club Shepway transformed the lift into a temporary exhibition space, inviting artists to develop work in response to the physical confines of the lift carriages and the unique position of the town mid regeneration process.
Vernacular Spectacular Publication Launch
Saturday the 14 November
The Old Bank Bar
Tontine street
Folkestone
4.00pm - 8.00pm
Club Shepway
Centered in Folkestone Club Shepway is a group of emerging artists and writers attempting to develop an active arena of cultural engagement and experimentation promoting contemporary art, music and its encompassing dialogue.
Playing with local histories, hidden memories and current affairs Club Shepway is fundamentally concerned with the social and commercial
development occurring in the area locking onto its fading histories and current myths. Club Shepway aims to create a diverse and critical
dialogue within the boundaries of Shepway and beyond.
Club Shepway are based at The B & B Project space situated in Folkestone's creative quarter. This former bed & breakfast/brothel & Tobacconist has been renovated maintaining many of its original Edwardian features creating a unique platform for emerging and established artists to showcase work and develop dialogue raising cultural awareness in the area.
