Folkestone is becoming one of the cultural hubs of southern England, but many of the young people we know don’t engage with the local arts scene. We decided to do something about that, and Arts Council England agreed to fund a unique Sound Art project – we’re very grateful to them for their open-mindedness and interest in our project.

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We run weekly after-school sessions for 6-11 year-olds, and they love it. Their art lessons at school are almost always based around paint, crayons or clay – we challenge their creativity in new ways and they take home recording equipment to create ‘sound stories’ using noises around their homes and neighbourhoods, voices and props.

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We also ran a club in the school holidays, working with sound artists to create amazing ‘audio postcards’ of Folkestone - Hannah Silva used her LoopStation to give a new interpretation to the children’s recordings, and Jez Riley French used underwater microphones and captured some amazing sounds.