Cheriton Light Festival 6
For some reason Kent-based arts charity Strange Cargo choose to hold their Light Festival in February which is often the coldest time of the year. Perhaps it’s so they can hail it as the largest winter arts festival in Kent with, so they claim, more than 10,000 people attending its last edition in 2016, “transforming Cheriton, a coastal resort near Folkestone, into a blaze of light and colour.” They also describe Cheriton as a ”Garrison town” [the Royal Ghurkha Rifles are based here] and a “residential seaside town” [what other types are there?]
Apparently Cheriton will become the ”must see destination, where a programme of new artworks will be displayed in the centre of the town for everyone to experience and enjoy”.
Founded in 2013 and staged every two years, the festival aims to offer the public a chance to see “the very best in light art, with commissioned works created by leading figures in the field.”
Well, how could I not go, even though it was possibly the coldest night of the winter so far with a biting north-easterly wind? Perhaps it was the weather, it was difficult to stand still and appreciate the art when you are uncomfortably cold. Or perhaps I’m just getting soft in my old age. I felt it was a bit underwhelming.
Well, here are a few photos that I managed to take.
The German flags have nothing to do with Brexit, someone was selling German sausages.
Cheriton Light Festival 6
For some reason Kent-based arts charity Strange Cargo choose to hold their Light Festival in February which is often the coldest time of the year. Perhaps it’s so they can hail it as the largest winter arts festival in Kent with, so they claim, more than 10,000 people attending its last edition in 2016, “transforming Cheriton, a coastal resort near Folkestone, into a blaze of light and colour.” They also describe Cheriton as a ”Garrison town” [the Royal Ghurkha Rifles are based here] and a “residential seaside town” [what other types are there?]
Apparently Cheriton will become the ”must see destination, where a programme of new artworks will be displayed in the centre of the town for everyone to experience and enjoy”.
Founded in 2013 and staged every two years, the festival aims to offer the public a chance to see “the very best in light art, with commissioned works created by leading figures in the field.”
Well, how could I not go, even though it was possibly the coldest night of the winter so far with a biting north-easterly wind? Perhaps it was the weather, it was difficult to stand still and appreciate the art when you are uncomfortably cold. Or perhaps I’m just getting soft in my old age. I felt it was a bit underwhelming.
Well, here are a few photos that I managed to take.
The German flags have nothing to do with Brexit, someone was selling German sausages.