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Together for Tomorrow

Bringing Castle Point residents and artists together to imagine a greener future through creative workshops, community voices culminating in an exhibition and publication celebrating local ideas for positive change.

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Pride in Place

Estuary Festival engaged diverse Canvey residents in creative workshops to imagine Canvey in 2035, gathering 817 future-focused postcards that captured community pride, priorities and hopes to inform the Pride in Place programme.

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Artist Call Out: ARISE

Estuary Festival is seeking 5 artists (or collectives) specialising in socially engaged practice to create new artworks for a ground-breaking research project seeking to develop resilience within the UK’s coastal seas and communities. 

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Poet in Every Port

Estuary Festival is delighted to have been selected as one of the 11 coastal partners for A Poet in Every Port, a national initiative marking Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary.

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New on our shop: The Myth of Thamesis

The Myth of Thamesis – The River by Nwando Ebizie is a limited edition hybrid project that exists as an orchestral album, aural poem and an accompanying book of poetry.

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Calling all poets from the Thames Estuary!

Estuary Festival and Metal are partnering with Southbank Centre on two national projects at the heart of the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary.

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Estuary 2025 Educational Resource

Our Artist-Designed Free Festival Creative Education Resource is live! 

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Estuary 2025: Press Highlights

Estuary 2025 was listed as one of the best 50 art events to book tickets for this summer. Read on to see all the press highlights, including radio interviews with our Artistic Director & CEO Thea Behrman and some of our commissioned artists.

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Estuary 2025: what’s on where - in North Kent

Take a look at our quick reference guide to see what is happening during Estuary 2025 in North Kent!

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Estuary 2025: what’s on where - in South Essex

Take a look at our quick reference guide to see what is happening during Estuary 2025 in South Essex!

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Estuary 2025: what's on when - day by day

Check out our quick reference Estuary 2025 guide to see what's on when each day with easy links to book tickets! All events are free, some require booking. 

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Production Manager: She Is A River

We are looking for an experienced Production Manager to work with the Estuary 2025 production team towards a world premiere performance by artist Nwando Ebizie.

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