upcoming events
Would you like to hire kollectiv? We offer very reasonable rates for you to hold any event, workshop, party or anything else you can imagine.
we’ve got it all:
+ skilled and friendly staff
+ license until 11pm
+ a fully stocked bar
+ food options
+ help if you are looking for live music for your event
All our upcoming events together in a lovely calendar. Scroll on to book tickets and for all the information.
If you’re looking for a different, inspiring and distinctive venue, we are here and ready to help!
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We’re sharing paints and pints at this bubbly social art night <3
Paint anything or anyone you want but just know your friends will get a hold of your canvas too!
We will create overlapping artworks in this beginner’s session – no experience needed. Come join the KOLABORATION!
All our events have vegan options available at the bar.
How to Make your Garden Grow - more naturally!
Wilding your garden, allotment, back yard or window box!
Mel has managed countryside and coastal areas for 40 years. Hear Ideas to make your private spaces more inviting for wild plants and animals.
In our land, under constant human disturbance and development, do you bit to help wildlife by offering a nature refuge and creating more connectivity between nature friendly areas.
Great Britain has approximately 2.37 million acres of residential gardens that’s about 960,000 hectares. That’s a great resource to help nature!
Bring your photos and share your own successes!
Join our Life Drawing Club — a welcoming, inspiring space dedicated to the timeless practice of drawing from life. Whether you are a professional artist, an art student, or simply passionate about figure drawing, this salon offers a relaxed and creative environment to develop your skills and connect with fellow artists.
Each session features a nude model with a variety of dynamic poses, from quick gesture sketches to longer, focused studies. Our aim is to create a supportive community where artists of all levels feel encouraged to experiment, grow, and share ideas.
Bring your own materials and enjoy an atmosphere of concentration, creativity, and artistic exchange. This is more than just a class — it’s a gathering of people who love drawing and value the beauty of observing the human form.
Come draw, connect, and be inspired.
Our next Poets’ Corner poetry open mic is on Wednesday 13th May and the evening is all about poetry as stories. Our theme is ‘Let me tell you a story’. We invite you to share poems that tell a true or fictional story on any subject. It could be about you or an incident in your life, about Folkestone or a more exotic setting – or purely the product of your imagination.
As ever, performance slots are up to 5 minutes, you can sign up on the night and all are welcome.
SATURDAY 16 MAY 7PM
We are delighted that our next Desert Island Art guest is David Alderman - who is also Artist of the Month in May at kollectiv.
David is one of the best known 'faces' around the Creative Quarter. A fine artist known for his distinctive geometric shapes and patterns, his work is well-demonstrated by his magnificent mural in kollectiv. He is constantly looking to develop and alter his practice, and although his work can vary a great deal, it always bears a distinctive Alderman touch.
The originator of the very successful Artists and Creatives WhatsApp Group - which now has 309 members - David has a well-earned reputation as someone who is ready to go out of his way to help his community without quibbling.
This will be a unique opportunity to learn more about someone you may have thought you knew well!
Chaired by Andrew Ward
MONDAY 18 May
7PM
Join us in the ultimate celebration of the new writing talent.
Writers from our Monday group reunite to share their new work with you. Prepare yourself for a fun, moving, witty, and altogether entertaining evening with short pieces read to you by local talent.
And who knows? Maybe next time you’ll join them yourself!
Dive into a magical world of words and pictures. Comics Kollectiv is a monthly book club focused on graphic novels. From heartbreaking memoirs to stoner comedies and superhero classics, each month we’ll explore unique stories and colourful characters told through this exciting medium (which is obviously the best medium).
This month the graphic novel of choice is Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls - An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.
Expect lively discussions, fresh perspectives, and something to drink (cold or hot). Whether you’re a longtime graphic novel fan or just curious about the medium, this is a place to get inspired, challenge your imagination, and connect with others who love stories told in panels and ink.
Curated by local illustrators and comics writers, Navied Mahdavian (This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America) and Ben Gore (imagined matter; Hip Hop Cocktails), meetings will be a mixture of conversation and doodling (we’ll doodle, but you can join if you’d like).
Come for the books. Stay for the conversations. Leave seeing stories differently.
Thursday May 14 - 7:00pm
kollectiv Film Club presents
Drawn from Life
Animated documentaries inspired by the lives of the people around us
Featuring filmmakers Marcus Armitage and Jessica Ashman in conversation with local producer and Director of Animate Projects, Abigail Addison.
Made in the UK, these 14 short films celebrate the intimate and the epic - reflecting the lives of the people around us. Thought provoking and inspiring, using a variety of animation styles, the works shine a light on the creativity of filmmaking in the UK today.
1. Follow The Dogs - Directed by Isabel Garrett (6.5 minutes)
2. Jeremy, my Father - Directed by Miranda Peyton Jones (8 minutes)
3. Pripyat Horse - Directed by Sally Pearce (2 minutes)
4. DAWTA - Directed by Jessica Ashman (7 minutes)
5. That Yorkshire Sound - Directed by Marcus Leonard Armitage (2.5 minutes)
6. On Hannah Fields - Directed by Lewis Heriz (3 minutes)
7. Departing - Directed by Mary Martins (7 minutes)
8. Green Lung - Directed by Simon Hamlyn (3 minutes)
9. And Granny Would Dance - Directed by Maryam Mohajer (10 minutes)
10. Regarding Gardens - Directed by Carolina Melis (2 minutes)
11. I'm OK - Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs (6 minutes)
12. Cesspit of Freedom - Directed by Oran O'Sullivan (2 minutes)
13. A Taste For Music - Directed by Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan (5 minutes)
14. Visible Mending - Directed by Samantha Moore (8.5 minutes).
We are delighted to be joined by two titans of British Jazz for our next Jazz at kollectiv session, taking place in the midst of Music and May.
Steve Lodder is a pianist, synth player, composer, producer, teacher and author. Renowned for his expressive style as a pianist, composer and arranger, Steve has long been an important figure of the British jazz scene. With a creative approach to genre and innovation, his work has taken him from solo albums to incredible collaborations such as ARQ (the Alison Rayner Quintet), and earned him a respected place on the modern jazz landscape. Steve has also collaborated with Paul McCartney, John Harle, Elvis Costello and Brazilian singer Mônica Vasconcelos as well as with our own Carol Grimes. His latest album is '2 Sorts of 3' features Dudley Phillips,Freddie Jensen, on various basses, and Nic France,Marius Rodrigues on drums
Mark Lockheart is one of the most distinctive and creative musicians on the current British music scene. As a saxophonist and composer, his work often defies categorisation and crosses the boundaries of the jazz, new music and folk worlds. 'Lockheart is a consummate saxophonist and a original and versatile composer', The Rough Guide to Jazz tells us. Mark toured extensively with Django Bates' Delightful Precipice, performing at many international festivals including Berlin, Molde and Willisau, and recording with jazz, folk and pop artists June Tabor, Billy Jenkins, Stereolab, Jah Wobble, Robert Wyatt, Prefab Sprout, Don Um Romao ,Thomas Dolby, and more recently Anja Garbarek and Radiohead. Mark's latest album, Shapeshifter, with Huw V Williams, Double Bass, and Jay Davis, was released in March this year.
Vagabond is a punk stand-up show like no other, from the mind of the bloke-core geezer-bird who brought you Saints and Skinners (2025).
Dyke Skinner talks imaginary friends, bad behaviour and his sordid love affair with cocaine and tramadol in his second ever stand-up special. Nestled between uppers and downers and beaten down by a country that doesn’t care if he lives or dies, Dyke found his feet through non-traditional means and lived to tell the tale.
This May, see the experimental, mind bending, gut busting comedy show Vagabond, and remember…the path to enlightenment is a backroad.
Please note, you must be 18 years or older to attend this show.
Standard tickets £10
Package tickets £45 (Limited edition)
There are 10 package tickets up for grabs.
Purchase of a package ticket includes:
1 ticket to Vagabond valid 22nd May 2026
1 yellow carrier wallet with Vagabond decal
1 print of ‘Vagazine’, the official Vagabond magazine with exclusive never before seen photos and writing
1 pin badge ‘The Vadge’
1 large sticker
The ‘Corporate Bullshit’ Vag tie
1 hand stitched and mounted ‘Tooth and Nail’ cross stitch by Dyke Skinner
1 ‘Tooth and Nail’ keepsake bag
A one time download link for Saints & Skinners the film
MUSIC IN MAY
World-renowned novelist and music amateur, Michel Faber shares 12 tracks from his varied record collection - some obscure, some unbelievable, some never to be heard again. Michel starts with an anecdote on the artist or production.
It’s a fun evening where you will be hypnotised by the music!
Join our Life Drawing Club — a welcoming, inspiring space dedicated to the timeless practice of drawing from life. Whether you are a professional artist, an art student, or simply passionate about figure drawing, this salon offers a relaxed and creative environment to develop your skills and connect with fellow artists.
Each session features a nude model with a variety of dynamic poses, from quick gesture sketches to longer, focused studies. Our aim is to create a supportive community where artists of all levels feel encouraged to experiment, grow, and share ideas.
Bring your own materials and enjoy an atmosphere of concentration, creativity, and artistic exchange. This is more than just a class — it’s a gathering of people who love drawing and value the beauty of observing the human form.
Come draw, connect, and be inspired.
Tom Bright - who Guy Garvey describes as the 'excellent Tom Bright' - is a relentlessly touring songwriter whose songs land with emotional weight and unvarnished honesty. 2025 saw him make his third television appearance on BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live, serenade thousands at his fifth Glastonbury Festival, and have sell out shows across the UK and beyond. He has collaborated with The The, earned continued support from tastemakers Guy Garvey and John Kennedy and spent two years on Spotify’s Most Beautiful Songs in the World playlist with 'If I Met Your Shadow’.
In May last year, Tom released ‘Young Old Bloke’, a collection of early songs produced by Mick Jones (The Clash) and Dirty White. He has three previous albums — all produced by Ed Harcourt.
Away from the stage, his story is just as remarkable: once the UK’s youngest pub landlord, with a childhood marked by multiple life-saving surgeries.
Born in Rome but artistically reborn in London, Lilla Shy is captivating hearts with her ethereal vocals and beautifully honest songwriting.
Following the release of her self-produced debut album ‘Layers’ in September 2024, Lilla has toured the UK and Europe. Highlights-to-date include supporting Matteo Bocelli at The London Palladium, performing at BBC Introducing Live, selling out her debut headline show at The Troubadour, and appearing on the line-up at Glastonbury Festival 2025.
Weekend magazine described 'Layers' as 'a mesmerising fusion of electro-pop and indie-rock, bound together by her rich, dynamic vocal range and natural flair for introspective, heartfelt lyricism'.