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Folk Lore Kent Folk Lore Kent (FLK) celebrates the stories, places, customs and creative communal weirdness of Kent.

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, entangled 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.

We have put in a proposal to open a Folklore Centre in a vacant building on the historic Quayside in beautiful Sandwich....
12/10/2026

We have put in a proposal to open a Folklore Centre in a vacant building on the historic Quayside in beautiful Sandwich. If accepted it would include:
- folklore exhibitions
- Kent folklore archive
- family story corner
- community cafe
- shop selling local crafts
- meeting and making spaces for hire
- artists’ studios
- seasonal celebrations
- performances
- walks, talks and workshops

If you’d like to help us realise this vision please write to the Town Clerk at Sandwich Town Council expressing your support: [email protected]

If we pull this off will you visit us?

The hoodening season begins with…
08/10/2026

The hoodening season begins with…

Another 1970s classic, originally released as three books: Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs …for kids. I begged my parents to b...
07/10/2026

Another 1970s classic, originally released as three books: Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs …for kids. I begged my parents to buy this for me then it scared the living daylights out of me. Favourite pages: Pluckley in Kent officially the most haunted village ever anywhere, how to conduct a ghost hunt and how to fake a UFO photograph. This what kids did before Nintendo Switch and the internet.

06/10/2026

Some highlights from our Hop Wreath making workshop earlier this month.
Hops grown on site, fashioned into wreaths in the green barn and raising funds for the White Mill Rural Heritage Centre.
Thanks to .l.rossignol for workshop assistance and photos.

It's been a busy week...Our Autumn Equinox Tarot Walk kicked off with tea, baked goodies and a potted history of the tar...
28/09/2026

It's been a busy week...
Our Autumn Equinox Tarot Walk kicked off with tea, baked goodies and a potted history of the tarot . Led by the cards, we took a divination drift around the ancient streets of Sandwich, spotting fools, ignoring arrows, following the sounds of a saxophone and looking for devils in the architecture, finishing up for a seasonal tipple and uncluttered reading demo.

We'll be back with more tarot business on 25 October at the Samhain Fayre, by . Join us for a playful Storytelling with the Tarot workshop, exploring the narrative potential of the cards. Tickets £15 via Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/storytelling-with-the-tarot-by-folk-lore-kent-tickets-199984838435

28/09/2026

Some highlights from our Harvest Home event in Sandwich on 19th September.
Featuring:
Sounds recorded live in with stomping tunes from and Krista Bubble...
Our FLK pop up exhibition of Harvest folklore, with corn dollies from the very talented ...
Willow weaving workshops with the wonderful Anna of Grow Outdoors...
Harvest knot loaves we made in the centre's bread oven...
We were very sorry that our booked storyteller was unable to join us due to a family emergency, but the very able James stepped in with some tales...
We even met a new hooden horse - welcome to the Kentish stable Whimbrel !

A very welcome donation to the Folk Lore Kent collection
21/09/2026

A very welcome donation to the Folk Lore Kent collection

19/09/2026
10/06/2026

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