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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You Me Us Too is our programme of creative workshops that bring people together to make music, and share stories and draw, paint and illustrate them. We’ve even more sessions running across venues in Medway this May. We’ll be running more You Me Us Too sessions across Medway and Swale in Summer 2022 – so …
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In 2020, artist Chloe Cooper was due to visit Sheppey to find out more about the Island and what it’s like to live there as part of the Pull Up A Chair artist’s residencies with Quiet Down There . Of course, we all know what happened next – but pandemics and lockdowns didn’t keep Chloe …
Know someone in Medway or Swale who’s at home and looking for something to be part of? Then share our You Me Us flyer with them. You Me Us is our project to reduce loneliness and in Medway and Swale during Covid-19, through community, art and creativity. If you know someone who might want …
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Our new project to combat loneliness during Covid-19 has a name – You Me Us – courtesy of Sittingbourne resident John Greenhill. John, former Chair of Swale Seniors Forum, who also took part in Ideas Test’s Young At HeArt project in 2017, came up with the title, which the Ideas Test team instantly fell in love …
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Sea Folk Sing has been shortlisted for the National Campaign for the Arts‘ (NCA) Hearts For The Arts Awards 2021. The awards celebrate the unsung heroes of Local Authorities who are championing the arts against all odds. Sea Folk Sing was the 2-year project we co-produced with SparkedEcho. It brought together people over the age …
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Above: Harty Ferry, Oare in Swale. Photo taken by Ideas Test Director, Lucy Medhurst on Wednesday 9th December 2020, 2.33 pm. “If it were not for hopes, the heart would break” Thomas Fuller Looking back over this year has made me aware of all the people and things that we are missing. This winter, …
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In Summer 2020, we put out a call for artists and community groups to apply for our Seed Commissions – a way we could support local artists and community groups to get new creative projects off the ground and to try something new in Medway and Swale. One of the projects chosen was artist Hannah …
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On 10th December 2020, Ideas Test teamed up with Fly The Flag and over 30 other organisations throughout the UK, to commissioned poets to write a piece of work to mark Human Rights Day. We commissioned local poet and performer Neelam Saredia-Brayley, who wrote the poem We Are Masterpieces. We spoke to Neelam for …
