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A Million Miles From Home - Folkestone Triennial 2011
Opens: 25/06/2011 Closes: 25/09/2011
Folkestone, Kent
A local resident looks out to sea, immortalized in bronze by Cornelia Parker, representing the outward-looking scope of Folkestone's second triennial. It also reveals how rooted in place the works here are, creating poignant and entertaining dialogues with the town's history, despite the international origins of the 19 artists involved.
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The Arts Desk“Pinning its hopes for regeneration on cultural initiatives...” The town is so fascinating that, armed with a copy of Everywhere Means Something to Someone, you could happily spend a weekend exploring its nooks and crannies while enjoying some interesting art en passant...
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60%
The Independent“Folkestone is pragmatic, then, but optimistic...” The sunny South-east is taking a moment to bask in whatever light contemporary art might throw off...
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80 %
The Telegraph“An oblique, Alice in Wonderland journey...” Responds to the physical, historical and social fabric of this charming but palpably faded seaside town in generally elliptical works designed to be sought out in odd, even mysterious corners...
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60%
The Observer“There is so much of Folkestone still to save...” I tried to convince myself that disappointment was inevitable, given my ecstasy three years ago. But the truth is that this a more patchy affair...
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80 %
Guardian“But Folkestone is still Folkestone...” Migration and exile, place and belonging are among the themes of A Million Miles From Home, the second Folkestone Triennial. The depressed resort and port is trying hard to reinvent itself. Maybe it needs to find itself first...
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Cinema
82% Beyond The Hills 79% Our Children 78% Neighbouring Sounds 78% A Hijacking 75% In the House 74% The Gatekeepers 72% In the Fog 70% Thursday Till Sunday 70% The Place Beyond the Pines 70% Mud 69% Good Vibrations 68% Rebellion 68% A Late Quartet 66% The Stoker 66% White Elephant -
Recorded music
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Books
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Theatre
87% Merrily We Roll Along 86% Mess 83% The Weir 82% Othello 82% The Seagull 81% The Audience 80% The Hothouse 76% The Pajama Game 75% Passion Play 72% Peter and Alice 68% Children of the Sun 55% Hamlet -
Opera & Dance
90% Mayerling 85% ENO - Wozzeck 85% Don Carlo 75% Opera North - Albert Herring
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