It's the first one. Everybody walking in will be new.
Booking is handled by Luma. It's free, it takes about twenty seconds, and it's how we know roughly how many chairs to put out.
Is this for me?
Almost certainly, yes, and you do not need to be technical. Not a bit, not secretly, not "well, I did a course once".
FAM is for everybody, but specially for people who make things: illustrators, filmmakers, producers, sound people, designers, writers, anybody working in or around the creative industries that have suddenly got a lot to argue about. You do not need to understand how any of this works to have a useful opinion about what it is doing to your work, and the people who do understand how it works are, on the whole, keen to explain it to you at the bar.
Some people coming are excited about all of it. Some are angry about all of it. Quite a few will be both, on the same evening, about the same thing. All of that is welcome, so long as you extend the same patience to the person standing next to you that you would want extended to you.
Nobody is selling anything from the front. There is no recruiter working the room and no pitch at the end. It is a room, some chairs, a projector and a bar.
And since this is the very first one: there is no in-crowd to be outside of. Everybody there will be working out what it is at the same time you are.
If it helps to know where the line is before you come: read the code of conduct. It is short and we mean it.
What actually happens
Two hours, once a month. This is how the first one is meant to run.
- Doors and the bar
Come early rather than on the hour. Somebody will say hello to you, that is a rule, not a hope.
- Someone shows something
About half an hour, from a person who has actually made the thing. Slides optional. Finished work optional.
- Questions, then the argument
The questions are the point. We are not trying to build a room that agrees with itself.
- The bit at the bar
The last half hour is just people talking to each other. If you only stay for one part of the evening, make it this one.
- Out
There is not much happening on the Old High Street, but if people want to carry on somewhere else, Farl is always a good option.
The first one
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- Date
- Thursday, 10 September 2026
- Doors
- 19:30 · out by 21:00
- Where
- kollectiv, 69 The Old High St, Folkestone CT20 1RN
- Cost
- Free
- Access
- Step-free, all on the ground floor. Bar takes card. No hearing loop.
Booking is handled by Luma. It's free, it takes about twenty seconds, and it's how we know roughly how many chairs to put out.
Cannot make this one? Follow the calendar on Luma and it will tell you about the next. That is our mailing list, we have not built another.
Getting there, getting in
The building
Step-free from the street. Everything happens on the ground floor, so there are no stairs and no lift to worry about. There should be an accessible toilet.
Hearing
There is no hearing loop. If that matters to you, email us before you come and we will work something out.
Trains and parking
Folkestone Central is the nearest station. There is parking nearby.
Food and drink
There is a bar and it takes card. There is food. Nobody minds if you turn up straight from work and eat while somebody is talking.
Photographs
We take a few, and they end up in the archive. If you would rather not be in them, say so at the door and you will not be. You can also ask us to take one down later, no reason needed.
Anything else
If there is something you need to know before you will commit to coming, ask. fam@andcake.dev is read by a person, and we would far rather answer a question than have you not turn up.