Lighting up the Parade in Chatham – Medway Light Nights 2023

  Together with Cohesion Plus and Intra Arts, (and a few hundred children!), we’re excited to say that we’re launching the second Medway Light Nights with a Lantern Parade on Friday 10th February 2023… and this time we’ll be in Chatham. Medway school children will be parading through Chatham town centre with lanterns created by …

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A group of people working on stone carving around wooden pallets. They are covered by gazebo.

Sculpting nature – Patrick Walls workshops at Milton Creek Country Park

As part of our co-commission with Creative Estuary at Milton Creek Country Park, artist Patrick Walls ran his sculpture workshops at the park in March 2022. In this blog, Kyra from our team writes about how the sculptures made at these and other workshops will be used by Patrick in artworks coming to the park …

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Precious Plastic and Robots at Medway Fun Palace

Every October people up and down the country create Fun Palaces full of science, creativity and fun. Fun Palaces support people to create local events for all ages, across the UK and beyond, sharing and celebrating the genius in everyone.     This year we joined Nucleus Arts at Medway Fun Palace at The Pentagon …

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A group of members of the public and Ideas Test staff under a blue Gazebo. To the left are two tables covered in ocean patterned tablecloths. The Idea Test team are wearing striped shirts and have paper hats on in bright colours.

Floating boats and singing notes at The Festival of Chatham Reach

This past weekend (18th/19th September 2021), Sun Pier in Chatham celebrated its maritime heritage with The Festival of Chatham Reach – and we were there too! The event was blessed with wonderful sunshine and saw people from around Medway come and take trips on the River Medway on boats and barges such as The Edith …

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Catch up on Try New Things on YouTube

Missed any of our Try New Things videos? You can still try something different, have fun and discover new talents – all in the comfort of your home. Catch up anytime by watching our Try New Things playlist on YouTube. You can see; Nicole Mollett’s Making Puppet Workshop (April 2020)   Sadie Hennessy’s Lockdown Collage …

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