In his photo blog, our Freelance Producer Kevin Grist explains the lunchtime experiments that went on during our Sensory Lunch. On Saturday 20 May, Ideas Test did an experiment in the heart of Chatham. ‘Sensory Lunch,’ a multi-sensory event for families in Luton, offered tasty curry and menu of storytelling projects as a …
Do you live near the A2 Road in Chatham? The Highway of Dreams is now open for submissions. This new app will capture ordinary people’s dreams, and display them as geolocated audio stories to be experienced on a bus journey down the A2. Did you know this ancient road was built by …
Listen to Dani Osoba’s amazing song, Heart Of Medway – inspired by your contributions to our Medway Fun Palace stall. Behind the song On the first weekend of October, people come together across the country to take part in Fun Palaces, an annual celebration of culture at the heart of community, using arts, science, …
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You Me Us Too, our programme of creative workshops to bring people together, is getting poetic this July! We’ll be running poetry sessions with Dan Simpson in Medway this Summer 2022, including a stall at Chatham Carnival 2022. Dan will take you through easy word games, designed to ease you into creativity. Then, you’ll get …
We’re raising money to expand our Hidden Lands co-commission to create a piece of art the whole public can enjoy at Milton Creek Country Park in Sittingbourne – and we need your help! We’re raising money on Spacehive – The platform for funding local projects. The good news is that every donation will be matched, …
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 her final blog for us, former Ideas Test Director, Lucy Medhurst, explains the process behind our Milton Creek Co-Commission with Creative Estuary. The project will see artist Patrick Wall create sculptures in the park in summer 2022, with designs based on the stone carvings made by the local people at workshops in Milton Creek …
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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You Me Us Too is our programme of creative workshops that bring people together to make music, write songs, make art and poetry. The sessions run across venues in Medway and Swale until October 2022. You can find sessions at the following locations: Thursday 28th April, 11am – 1pm. Storytelling & Illustration with Hannah …
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