presents

FIVE Days of FREE Events
2 - 6 June 2025

2025 Program

From Sunrise to Sunset

Our Mission

Whether we are looking forward or looking back, the horizon provides a focal point for contemplation. Sometimes we are watching a new day arrive, other times we are watching it end. Nevertheless, the horizon lets us know when one cycle has finished, and another one has begun.

Horizons can also be broadened. To transplant oneself into new territory, to become familiar with it, means one’s vantage point has now changed, expanded.

So we are asking, in which direction are you looking? Are our horizons broadening, or narrowing? What does it mean to be looking from where we are, right now?

Festival Director and Event Coordinator - Writing

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Mackenzie Wilson

Mackenzie is a writer from Vancouver, Canada. She is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent's Paris School of Arts and Culture. Her work spans fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Communications Manager, Website Design and Event Coordinator - Film

Martha Kershaw

Martha is originally from Manchester, UK. She is currently living in Paris, where she studies MA Film and Creative Writing. She previously studied Film and Literature at the University of Warwick, and predictably enjoys a good film or book. Martha specialises in animation and feminist screen cultures, and is an aspiring film critic.

Event Coordinator - Art

Phoebe Gollan

Phoebe is a practicing artist from Newcastle, UK. She is currently studying MA Philosophy and History of Art at Kent University in Paris, after completing her Fine Art degree. She specialises in painting portraiture and still life, and runs art workshops to help others learn.

Event Coordinator - Art

Kamille John

Kamille is an author, poet and performer currently pursuing an MA Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Hailing from the Isle of Spice - Grenada, she has performed at, and served as creative producer for VOICES, the poetic show series held by the Grenada Writers’ Association from 2011-2019. She has also held the mantle of stage director for Redemption Time (2023-2024) and What’s Your Verdict (2023) plays, staged by the La Boucan Creative Centre.

Social Media

Colette Wagner

Colette is an aspiring author and ambitious writer from New York getting her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent - Paris. She got her BA in English at University at Buffalo and looks forward to finishing her first novel by the end of 2025. She thoroughly enjoys watching and reviewing movies, making pasta, and hopping on the Spotify jam sesh.

Illustrator and Logo Design

Ella Frances

Ella is a visual artist and writer currently studying a master's degree in History and Philosophy of Art. After completing an undergraduate degree in Fine Art, Ella worked in an art school whilst continuing to make paintings and write poetry & short stories.

Photographer and Event Coordinator- The Menteur Launch

Kailie Michalak

Kailie is a student at the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture, pursuing a MA in Creative Writing. Originally from Orange County, California, she spent some years in Chicago working as a Data Analyst before relocating to Paris for her studies. She is currently working on a novel and in her free time loves knitting, cooking, reading, and her cat Forrest.

Administration

Jeannie Dale

Jeannie is currently studying for her MA in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. She got dual BFA's in Studio Painting and Art History from Providence College, and previously curated at Leica Gallery Boston. Jeannie loves knitting, reading, and will pull you tarot cards if you ask nicely.