Our aim is to enable public access to and engagement with local folklore, including our growing collection of folk objects, a stable of hooden horses, material and digital archives. Our plans include temporary exhibitions, walks and workshops, seasonal activities and ultimately, a permanent folklore centre for Kent. Kent is a county of passage where folklore can be transplanted or locally grown, e
ntangled and grassroots. Folk Lore Kent embraces from the soil activism and inclusive folk practices, old and new, which welcome the broad diversity of the county’s inhabitants. James Frost and Sonia Overall are partners and collaborating artists and researchers with a long-standing passion for folk customs and folklore. We perform with Hoodening and Mumming groups and as beasts in seasonal festivals and community parades. Between us we have been a May Day Maid Marian, a Molly, assorted Mumming characters, danced Border and Cotswold Morris, played processional music and performed as Hooden beasts and their handlers.
