Associated Programme
The Clifftown Podcast
A fascinating and personable podcast exploring the culture, hidden history and stories of M G Boutler's hometown.
Creative Letter Exchange
Creative Letter Exchange is for anybody who lives on the Isle of Sheppey who's ever wanted to be a correspondent
HYDRACITY 2021
Hydracity brings artists and public together to investigate London’s watery network, the interlocking ideas & currents that flow in/out the Thames. Hydracity 2021 is an ambitious, timely, transformational programme of work, linked to a novel programme of co-creation, open workshops & public engagement.
Red Sails Over The Estuary
An exhibition on the history of the Thames sailing barge and its association with Southend.
REVEAL
An exhibition and sale of works by artists, Sheila Appleton & Ian E Smith and potters, Richard Baxter & Julie O'Sullivan with jewellery by Joe Spurgeon.
Hidden Heroines: the untold stories of the women of the Dockyard
Hidden Heroines: the untold stories of the women of the Dockyard is a new temporary exhibition at The Historic Dockyard for Spring 2021
UP TO YOUR NECK IN MUD
A photographic exhibition by Holly Birtles including images taken from an opera performance based on the Mesolithic findings of the submerged landscape - Doggerland.
The Cinder Path Project
The Cinder Path Project will investigate the successful campaign 50 years ago to stop a major road “The Road To The West” being built along the Cinder Path from Chalkwell to Old Leigh
A Hoo Catalog
double-face will spend time on Hoo Peninsular, looking, listening, interacting and responding. Their thoughts and actions will be logged via an online space, which will evolve and build throughout the duration of the project.
The Strand 125
An anniversary celebration of The Strand's 125th year through the sharing of memories and images through a virtual exhibition.
Tales of the Fanns: Walking & Arts Festival
A series of free walks and activities will occur across the area to reveal unexpected and delightful treasures waiting to be discovered in the Land of the Fanns
Stone Place Stories
Stone Place Stories uses Google My Maps to bring together, in a digital format, images, stories and art that convey the unique social, economic and environmental history of this small parish.
Swansula, Relics of Estuarine Magic
Swansula, Relics of Estuarine Magic is an ongoing world building and curatorial project – a fictional archive which frames sculptural, moving image, animated, painted, drawn, poetic, audio and digital artworks as artefacts from the future, excavated from the speculative world of Swansula.
HOME
HOME is a project in two parts; a zine collecting photography and writing about Johanna’s time growing up in Chatham, and an album of ambient music and soundscapes based on audio captured from the area.
Conrad to Containers: Barking to Beijing
A participatory walk and ritual that invites us to join the dots and think about the hidden costs of our consumptive lifestyles in the place where Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness.
Riverside Soundings - Sound Walk
A unique Riverside Sound Walk to listen to on headphones whilst following a route around Rochester Riverside and The Esplanade.
Practice Makes Perfect
Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present the first institutional exhibition of new work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing.
Restorative Drawing with Liz Atkin for Bethlem Gallery
Liz Atkin leads an absorbing and restorative hour of drawing, focused on expressive mark marking techniques. We will take inspiration from the texture, geography and traces of the Thames Estuary.
A Trilogy of East India Company Virtual Tours
Three Virtual Tours themed on the East India Company and the River Thames.
Decoy
Anna Falcini will present daily findings from a site-specific residency at one of the few remaining decoy ponds on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.
Thurrock Island 2021: Bryony and the Big Beach Clean Up
Thurrock Island is a community art project for all ages, exploring the effects of plastic pollution
Escaping with Magwitch
Two artists, Carol Donaldson and Stephen Turner, are set to escape to the North Kent Marshes in a small inflatable boat called Magwitch. For five days they will survey the wetlands and wildlife on their own doorstep, camping in remote locations.
Degree Showcase
Canterbury Christ Church University's School of Creative Arts and Industries Student Showcase
Same River Twice
Taking its inspiration from Heraclitus’ proverb, 'No man ever steps in the in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man,’ this writing workshop considers how the estuarine landscape might inspire new poetry and prose.
Breaching the Boundary
This exhibition will explore the estuary’s role not only in a historical/militaristic sense, but also as a borderline, as a frontier in ongoing conflicts such as climate change and development.
The Graphic Language of the Seaside Exhibition
An exhibition focusing on the Typography of the seaside – including a guest lecturer talk on 27 May 2021 ending in a private view.
The Great Tide: Flooding, Landscape and Memory
In this programme Patrick Bernard discusses 'The Great Tide' with writer and social historian Ken Worpole; Edward Platt, author of 'The Great Flood'; and Anne Johnson, a storyteller who runs Everyday Magic, a London-based charity which sends storytellers into state primary schools, and who lived on Canvey Island at the time of the flood.
Cruising the Estuary
A series of three online workshops playing on the double meaning of cruising—sailing on water & searching for sexual encounters.
Rising from the Ashes – The Restoration of the Dockyard Church
Join architects Hugh Broughton and Martin Ashley along with Trust Director Will Palin at this online event to discuss the reimagining of Dockyard Church and their approaches to delivering a historically sensitive yet dynamic solution to revitalising the church to it's former exterior grandeur coupled with a vibrant contemporary interior.
Exchanged Tides
A project that explores the relationship between the hyper-local and the global by focusing on the waterways that connect us
Río y Mar (River and Sea)
An exhibition reflecting on the construction of female identity in relation to geography, partly inspired by research into the imagery of the Thames Estuary
Art on the Rails
An outdoor exhibition along the edge of the Thames of work inspired by the estuary, the area, water and the sea.
Nature inside the famous Exbury Egg | new installation by artist Bhajan Hunjan
See artist Bhajan Hunjan’s wonderful installation inspired by nature inside the Exbury Egg.
An Estuary Reading Group
Join us for a relaxed Sunday evening reading group that will explore Nicola Barker's Thames Gateway Trilogy
Galleons Coffins & Drunken Sailors
A costumed history walk round Queenborough (Isle of Sheppey) with site specific stories and sea shanties.
Thames Run: Source to Sea
Thames Run: Source to Sea is a live artwork and durational run/performance to be undertaken by the artist following the length of the River Thames from source to sea
Landscape and Wildlife Photography Workshop - Hoo Marshes
Landscape and Wildlife Photography Workshop on Hoo Marshes
Walk, Talk, Draw
Nicole Mollett will lead a walking drawing workshop around the town of Sheerness. The tour will explore some of the town's hidden footpaths, back alleyways and the iconic seawall.
Gravesham Estuary Fringe Festival 2021
Gravesham Arts Salon has reached out to artists and creatives across all genres throughout the borough to be part of the Gravesham Estuary Fringe Festival.
A Fleeting Field Station near Cliffe
A Fleeting Field Station: A walk through an encounter between ecologies and landscapes of production.
Trail of the Blue Porcupine – towards the Watery (H)edges of Gravesend
This exploratory Hydrodetour walk launches from Gravesend’s unique art centre LV21. In a homage to former and contemporary fauna of the marshy landscapes we join the Trail of The Blue Porcupine: A collaboration by Poet James M'Kay and artist Sarah Sparkes.
Under Big Skies
A site specific music and dance piece; meditating on, and responding to, the landscape of the estuary and the movement of tides.
Scratch Memories of the Thames
On this online workshop, participants will be invited to create digital stories and animations based on their experiences and memories of the Thames using simple coding.
Tales of Lands and Seas
A series of events inspired by the Thames Estuary, narrating stories about crossing borders, connecting and bridging cultures from land and seas.
Visually Appealing
A friendly and informal exhibition evening/sharing of work from a group of Margate based artists and Open School East alumni
T100 Dreaming
With a series of specially curated walks, T100 Dreaming invites communities to come together to share their dreams, creatively re-imagining a better future as we emerge into a post–Covid world. T100 Dreaming will celebrate the sense of community spirit that the pandemic heightened as we dream of a more cohesive, creative and sustainable future
The Margate School’s Photography Residency Exhibition
A group exhibition showcasing the work of eight, emerging Kent based photographers who have been creating a new body of work
and what would you say? – Virtual Film Screening
...and what would you say? is an experimental short combining spoken word and film to explore the idea: what if our stretch of coastline could talk to us?
Darent Valley Confluences to Gravesend
Unique Hydrodetour starting at Dartford Station and leading us out along the Darent River
‘The Enraptured Tourist’: Ruskin and France Talk
In this illustrated talk, Ruskin scholar Robert Hewison discusses John Ruskin’s life-long experience of France, its culture, politics and architecture.
The Rising Tide: A Story Trail
The Rising Tide is a walking adventure for live audiences diving into the stories of local people whose lives have been shaped by Estuary.
Rainham Marshes/Rainham Barges
This unique Hydrodetour artist-led walk and performance starts from Rainham Station, leading us out along the London Loop pathway to the Concrete Barges at Coldharbour Point.
Two Tree Island
Two Tree Island is a photographic project, investigating the history of the island from a landfill site to the Nature Reserve it is today.
Fogged Mirror
Fogged Mirror is a film accompanied by spoken performance, weaving a narrative from myth and history. It draws on the ‘miracle of the black leg’.
Outfall
Outfall is a research project commissioned by TACO! exploring flows of waste, production and biological matter within London and the Thames Estuary.
Subterranean Cosmic Dreaming Part 2: Creating a Museum of Futurology
A temporary workshop towards curating a wild ‘Museum of Futurology’ about and within the vicinity of Gunners Park and Shoeburyness East Beach.
Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories
Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories is an outdoor art and sound installation conceived by Artist EVEWRIGHT. It is the first site-specific art and sound installation to be held at the Port of Tilbury in Essex and the UK dedicated to people of the Windrush Generation.
A Refracted View
An exhibition in two Kent locations, Margate and Ramsgate. Bringing you creative responses engaging with environmental and social sustainability.
