Make Waves is a 9-month long programme which supports local 18-25 year olds to make their creative career goals a reality. It’s a jam-packed programme, including skills-based workshops, mentoring, a professional development bursary, a paid work placement in a local creative company, and a budget of £1000 for each member of the group to produce …
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 …
You Me Us Too – Storytelling, Illustration, and Music in Medway this May Read More »
In March 2022, folk musicians Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds led our You Me Us Too workshops in sessions at wHoo Cares in Hoo and at Arches Local’s Under The Arches singalong group. Medway based photographer Joshua Atkins was also there to capture the magical musical moments. All quotes taken from session participants by Ashleigh …
You Me Us Too – Making music with Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds Read More »
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 …
Ideas Test are delighted to announce that Tracy Brunt, formerly Deputy Director of Ideas Test, will be taking up the role of Director from 1st April 2022. This exciting news follows the January announcement that Lucy Medhurst is stepping down as Director at the end of March. Over the past two years in her role …
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 …
Sculpting nature – Patrick Walls workshops at Milton Creek Country Park Read More »
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 …
You Me Us Too – new workshops for March & April 2022 Read More »
In her second blog, Ashleigh Burr writes about working on the Medway Light Night’s festival that took place in and around Rochester on 11 & 12 February 2022. Ashleigh worked with us as part of Creative Estuary’s Estuary Emerging Producer Placements programme Some of the additional photos in this blog were taken by Raven, part …
Guest Blog: Working as an emerging producer on Medway Light Nights 2022 – Ashleigh Burr Read More »
In this blog, Producer Ashleigh Burr writes about the filming of We Are Medway, a film that will be projected onto the walls at Rochester War Memorial Garden on Rochester High Street on Friday 11 February and Saturday 12 February as part of the Medway Light Nights festival. Ashleigh is working with us on Medway …
Medway Light Nights – Guest blog from producer Ashleigh Burr Read More »
