Located within the Knightswick Shopping Centre, the Estuary 2025 Canvey Hub serves as a vibrant focal point for the festival, offering an engaging space for families and the broader community. Throughout the festival week, the Hub will host artist-in-residence Selena Chandler, whose interactive, tactile craft practice draws inspiration from Essex’s rich cultural heritage. Her work aligns with the festival's theme of ‘Vessels’, exploring concepts such as making as a means to share and hold stories of the landscape.
The Estuary 2025 Canvey Hub will transform into an evolving lab of creative practice, providing a collaborative and hands-on environment. Visitors will have the opportunity to try out Selena's artistic processes, learn about her practice, and explore the connections between traditional crafts and contemporary artistic techniques.
In addition to Selena's residency, the space will feature the film Threads for Tomorrow, produced as part of the Beach of Dreams project. This commission breathes new life into waste materials, transforming them into a celebration of sustainability, craft and cultural connection. The film follows the embroidering together of 500 Beach of Dreams Silks, damaged in storms along the South Coast in 2023. Renowned designer and textile artist Rahemur Rahman leads this ambitious project, collaborating closely with eight sewing groups based along the Thames Estuary - beachofdreams.org
The Estuary 2025 Canvey Hub offers an inclusive and interactive experience, inviting families and individuals to engage with the creative processes that celebrate the Thames Estuary's culture and community.
Challenging creative industry norms whilst uplifting marginalised communities.
An Essex born artist whose practice is strongly grounded in place, drawing on social histories, the labour of domestic and traditional crafts and the valuing of local knowledges.
Exploring how both the Estuary landscape and vessel metaphor can hold memory, transformation, and possibility. Supported by Southeastern & Railway 200.
Exploring how both the Estuary landscape and vessel metaphor can hold memory, transformation, and possibility. Supported by Southeastern & Railway 200.
Download our Castle Point Guide for family-friendly activities in the Borough, designed by artist Lu Williams and created in consultation with local community organisations.
Get your little ones ready for a children-led session in the tidal pool at Shoeburyness. Through a range of activities and games, they will learn to value their local environment. They will also learn about ecological sustainability with links to the curriculum.
A series of performance workshops by artist Erena Dellaporta where children and adults are encouraged to work collaboratively with the artist around the idea of 'den'. Through play, you will explore the idea of a safe place at home, but also the value of outdoor spaces, including beaches, for children to play.
Join our pirate captain as she sails along the estuary; braving the waves and following the clues to uncover a long-lost treasure! Will she find it on Canvey?!
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