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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
Ideas Test and Chatham-based artist Xtina Lamb are helping Medway bring the light of Hopes & Dreams to The Pentagon Centre this holiday season. In a year that has seen many changes and challenges, local arts organisation Ideas Test wants to team up with ordinary – and extraordinary – people in Medway to create lanterns… Continue Reading
In this blog post, Hilary from the Medway Gender Sexual Diversity (MGSD) Centre tells us about their mural that was created for a very different Medway Pride. The mural was one of the projects we supported as part of our Seed Commissions 2020. 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, some of them great… Continue Reading