Shepway Find Your Talent* gives children and young people access to a wide range of arts activities. Find Your Talent is bringing an exciting range workshops and events for children, young people and their families to the Folkestone Book Festival programme. Look out for the Shepway Find Your Talent logo next to listings.

GALA DAY for SECONDARY SCHOOLS at the Leas Cliff Hall, including Rapspeare with Bigfoot Theatre

BURNING OUT A brand new performance developed with young people and author Katherine May

STORY BOX Hidden treasure boxes that reveal their story through Wide Eyed Theatre

STORY SACK Children and parents read, write, draw and think creatively together with author/ illustrator Paul Geraghty

Also throughout the week of the festival a brand new 3Dart installation, The Order of Things, created by young people working with artist Jon Adams will be on show at the Creative Quarter Visitor's Centre in the Old High Street, Folkestone.

*The Creative Foundation is leading the Shepway Find Your Talent project in partnership with Kent County Council, one of ten national pathfinders commissioned by the Government across England. Find Your Talent offers children and young people regular involvement with arts and culture both in and out of school. It is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Arts Council England and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.