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Estuary 2025 impact revealed!

One year on from Estuary 2025, we are proud to share our Impact Report and short film

ARISE Engagement: artists revealed & World Café dates announced

We are delighted to announce the commissioned artists and dates for the ARISE World Cafe events

Open call to create on a Thames sailing barge

Artist Ben Judd is offering a rare opportunity to create a new artwork, performance, talk or workshop using a camera obscura projection on an historic Thames sailing barge in June and July 2026.

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.

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.

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.

A Poet in Every Port

A Poet in Every Port, the national initiative marking Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary comes to Chatham on 26 June!

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.

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.

Estuary 2025 Educational Resource

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

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.

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!