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CT20 is a forthright visual arts and cultural platform championing quality contemporary art and diverse cultures from the margins.

CT20 is a non-profit organisation based in the heart of the Creative Quarter in Folkestone. It is a cross-disciplinary platform that prioritises the development of ideas above pre-defined genres or disciplines. It is an exchange network of resources, where art, architecture, design and creative graft are founded upon a cross-section of experimental and interdisciplinary projects. It is a space whe

re people, industries and ideas meet. The three components, Projects, Residencies and Exchange make up the core programme of CT20.

26/09/2025

🚀 Join the CT20 Board!

We’re looking for passionate people to help steer our dynamic, diversity-driven arts organisation.

🖌 Voluntary Role - Approx 2 days per year - 1-3 year term

📅 Intro & Q&A Night: Wed 22 Oct 2025, 7-9pm, film screenings at 73 Tontine Street followed by the Pomus Wine Bar Folkestone (free drinks & food!)

👉 Apply by 31 Oct 2025, 12pm (noon)

Email [email protected] with the subject “CT20 Oversight & Advisory Board Application”, plus your CV and a short note on why you’d love to join.

💡Help shape the future of the arts in the South-East!

19/09/2025

🎬💥 This weekend marks the final screening of ‘Crips Fight for Civil Rights’: NDMAC & Civil Resistance from Brazil’ - the end of Season 3 REEL BRAZIL.

🌍 Since 29 August, we have been exploring the shared heritage of civil resistance and subversion in both Brazil and the UK through film, drawing cultural parallels between Brazil’s post-dictatorship era and the UK’s Thatcher years. This season has focused on the UK’s Disability Rights Movement and the pioneers that fought tirelessly for their civil rights.

Thank you to this season’s artists for their radical moving image works: David Hevey, the late Keith Armstrong, Roberto Berliner, Axel Weisz, Laura Tafarel, Thiago Villas Boas, Ker Wallwork, and A Revolução Não Será Televisionada

REEL BRAZIL’s five seasonal programmes will be screened across multiple venues in Folkestone and online, featuring over 25 historic and contemporary works in video art, experimental cinema, and digital commissions by over 27 international artists.

Don’t miss the final showing of the festival’s Season 3 in Folkestone.
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📍 CT20, Folkestone⁠
🗓 Fri - Sun: 11am - 1pm, 3-5pm, 7-8:00pm⁠
🌍 Season 3: 29 August – 21 September⁠
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.

14/09/2025

🎥 From now until 21 September, don’t miss our celebration of: CRIPS FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL RESISTANCE FROM BRAZIL

The Disability Rights Movement of the 1980s and 1990s was a pioneering and tireless struggle to dismantle barriers and one of its leaders was Keith Armstrong.

The deceased disabled artist and activist had enduring impact on the disability arts movement.⁠ He left behind a unique visual record of the movement through his photography, and these became the centre of a major landmark exhibition: CRIP ARTE SPAZIO: THE DAM IN VENICE in 2024.

As the exhibition drew to a close in early January 2025, director David Hevey (also a disability rights activist, photographer, and a reporter at the BBC who covered these demonstrations) directed and produced a short film exploring Armstrong's images and the stories of the protestors featured in them.

Featured above are some of Armstrong’s images. Come and experience Hevey’s film this September in Folkestone.

Video: Courtesy of NDMAC Archive, UK (National Disability Movement Archive & Collection)⁠
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📍 CT20, Folkestone⁠
🗓 Fri - Sun: 11am - 1pm, 3-5pm, 7-8:00pm⁠
🌍 Season 3: 29 August – 21 September⁠
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.

27/08/2025

🌟 We’re delighted to kick off Season 3 of REEL BRAZIL: MUTANIES IN VIDEO ART

🎥 Introducing: CRIPS FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL RESISTANCE FROM BRAZIL opens on Friday 29 August with a season of new screenings until 21 September.

This season explores the shared heritage of creative resistance between Brazil and the UK, drawing cultural parallels between Brazil’s post-dictatorship era and the UK’s Thatcher years.

Amongst a unique selection of radical moving image works on UK’s disability rights and Brazil’s civil resistance, we highlight a collection of new moving image works on the deceased artist/rights-activist, Keith Armstrong, telling the stories of his life-long fight to remove barriers.

Featured above are photographs by the Artist/Activist, Keith Armstrong, RIP.

📍 CT20, Folkestone⁠
🗓 Opening: Fri 29 Aug, 7-8pm

🌍 Season 3: 29 August – 21 September
🗓 Fri - Sun: 11am - 1pm, 3-5pm, 7-8:30pm⁠
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.⁠

Photograph: Keith Armstrong (RIP), courtesy of NDMAC Archive, UK (National Disability Movement Archive & Collection)

17/08/2025

💬 In Conversation with Graziela Kunsch

Graziela Kunsch is a socially engaged artist, educator, editor based in São Paulo. Here she sits down with Reel Brazil to talk through her 2015 work Ensaio Ilú Obá de Min, which captures a group of transgender women and men who live under a bridge.

They are shown dancing to the beat of drums. In that rhythm, she explains how they create a space filled with joy, pride, and dignity.

🏳️‍🌈 Kunsch is one of the artists featured in our celebration of "Q***r Resistance" through film, forming Season 2 of REEL BRAZIL: MUTINIES IN VIDEO ART

Come visit CT20 and experience q***r cinema at its finest

📍 CT20, Folkestone⁠
🗓 Fri - Sun: 11am - 1pm, 3-5pm, 7-8:30pm⁠
🌍 Season 2: 25 July – 24 August⁠
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.⁠

Reel Brazil: Mutinies in Video Art , A Moving Image Festival on Art & Activism is Creatively directed by Nina Shen, co-curated by Nina Shen with Solange Farkas. Presented by CT20, in partnership with Videobrasil & NDMAC⁠

Video clip: Courtesy of Videobrasil Archive

01/08/2025

🌈 Reel Brazil returns for Season 2, and this time, we’re centering stories that dare to resist, to reclaim, and to reimagine.⁠⁠

🎥 "Q***r Resistance" (July 24 – August 25) is a season dedicated to q***r voices from Brazilian experimental cinema & UK artists, voices that confront injustice, celebrate identity, and carve space for freedom through art.⁠

⁠Across a powerful lineup of films, this season explores q***rness not only as identity, but as defiance against violence, erasure, and conformity. These are stories that pulse with life, intimacy, rage, tenderness, and the radical act of being seen.⁠

⁠Whether personal or political (or both), each film is a reminder that resistance can take many forms from quiet gestures to loud declarations, from bodies in motion to memories on screen.⁠

Join us in witnessing q***r cinema at its most urgent and unapologetic.⁠
Reel Brazil: Mutinies in Video Art , A Moving Image Festival on Art & Activism is Creatively directed by Nina Shen, co-curated by Nina Shen with Solange Farkas. Presented by CT20, in partnership with Videobrasil & NDMAC⁠

📍 CT20, Folkestone⁠
🗓 Fri - Sun: 11am - 1pm, 3-5pm, 7-8:30pm⁠
🌍 Season 2: 25 July – 24 August⁠
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.⁠

Follow us for artist announcements, programme drops, behind-the-scenes moments + community events.

22/07/2025

Ash McNaughton is an action-based performance artist whose practice unfolds through a process-led exploration of materials, movement, and sound. Working with site-responsive, durational, and ritual elements; utilising methods of endurance, repetition, and resistance to access altered states of being.

Their actions foster a synergetic exchange between their physical, psychological, and spiritual body, and the environment(s) they inhabit. Attuning to memory, transcorporeality, and somatic practices, their embodied approach navigates thresholds that evoke precarity, balance, tension, and fragility, while holding in reverence that which lies in between.

This practice is an attempt to articulate that which escapes us.

🕖 Join us from 7pm ‘til late for an evening of radical art, community, and conversation. Expect a powerful reflection on the cultures of Q***r activism from both Britain and Brazil.

Video credit: Ash McNaughton ‘THUMBNAIL’
Reel Brazil: Mutinies in Video Art , A Moving Image Festival on Art & Activism
Creatively directed by Nina Shen, co-curated by Nina Shen with Solange Farkas
Presented by CT20, in partnership with Videobrasil & NDMAC

📍 CT20, Folkestone
🗓 Season 2: 25 July – 24 August
🌍 Festival runs until 30 November 2025
🎥 This is video art as mutiny.

Follow us for artist announcements, programme drops, behind-the-scenes moments + community events.

***rnessInResistance

21/07/2025

Lenora de Barros, Walter Silveira: Homenagen a George Segal 1985 – (Brazil)

The film is created by both artists who feature in season 1 of Reel Brazil - A Brazilian on Tontine Street.

The short film is a playful yet haunting tribute to American sculptor George Segal. In this short video, Lenora de Barros brushes her teeth with vigorously as the Beatles’ She Loves You plays. The foam gradually overflows, covering her face and head, echoing the ghostly figures of Segal’s characters. It’s strange, funny, and oddly moving.

Reel Brazil: Mutinies in Video Art, A Moving Image Festival on Art & Activism;

27 Jun - 30 Nov 2025

Creatively directed by Nina Shen, co-curated by Nina Shen & Solange Farkas

CT20 in partnership with & NDMAC

Courtesy of Videobrasil Historical Archive

16/07/2025

We’re proud to present Eder Santos’ Uakti. As one of the featured artists in the Reel Brazil Moving Image festival, Santos reimagines Ravel’s Bolero through the sounds of Uakti - an experimental Brazilian group known for their handmade instruments crafted from pipes, aqualungs and even gourds.

Set against dreamy visuals of dancers, fish, and flowers, Uakti transforms a French orchestral classic into something folksy and full of Brazilian rhythm.

This short film is part of Season 1: A Brazilian on Tontine Street

🎬 Reel Brazil is open to all until 30 November 2025 - if you haven’t visited yet, now’s the time to discover the brilliant work of the artists in this compelling season.

Eder Santos
Uakti
Screening at:
11:30 & 19:00
73 Tontine St
Fri - Sun
27 Jun - 20 Jul 2025

We’re honoured to collaborate with , NDMAC and to showcase these exceptional works from Videobrasil’s Historical Archive.

Stay tuned for more updates and upcoming events via

15/07/2025

Lenora de Barros, Walter Silveira: Homenagen a George Segal (1985) – (Brazil)

Lenora de Barros invites creates a unique and haunting visual, that is a tribute to the American sculptor George Segal. In this short video, Lenora de Barros brushes her teeth with vigorously as the Beatles’ She Loves You plays.

The foam unexpectedly overflows, covering her face and head, echoing the ghostly figures of Segal’s characters. It’s strange, funny, and oddly moving.

Screening at:
15:30 & 19:15

73 Tontine St
Fri - Sun

27 Jun - 20 Jul 2025

We’re honoured to partner with and NDMAC to produce the film festival Reel Brazil

Follow projects for more festival updates

11/07/2025

✨ Artist Spotlight: Season 1 🎬🇧🇷

Featuring in our film festival Reel Brazil is Vincent Carelli who explores the Waiãpi people in his short film O’ Espirito. Carelli presents Waiãpi people in Brazil watching themselves and other Indigenous groups on TV for the first time. CarelliCarelli’s work is a powerful example of Brazil’s rich indigenous history, whilst exploring the emergence of modernism through technology.

Carelli’s film is part of Season 1: A Brazilian on Tontine Street

Vincent Carelli
O Espírito Da TV

Screening at:
11:10, 11:35, 15:10, 15:35
73 Tontine St
Fri - Sun
27 Jun - 20 Jul 2025

🎬 Reel Brazil is open to all until 30 November 2025 - if you haven’t visited yet, now’s the time to discover the brilliant work of the artists in this compelling season.

We’re honoured to collaborate with , , and NDMAC to showcase these exceptional works.

Stay tuned for more updates and upcoming events via .

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