Our Land 39 Watermarks 43 Sonia Hughes, Jo Fong, Maria Amidu Further festival information Andrew Wrestle and Lisa As you head for one of the oldest estuary ferry SOUTH Mattocks crossings at en route to our festival Publications Online Whose land is this? Our Land works in Kent – make sure to seek out one of Hello (No. 2) 8 Estuary 2021 publications are available An extensive programme of talks explores ideas of belonging, Maria’s eight beautiful plaques marking our Katrina Palmer at Estuary 2021 hubs/venues and from and online artworks accompany our ownership and a collective 107 miles at the Ferry Terminal shelter. Hello is a large emphatic concrete form based on a sound mirror, our online shop. works in the landscape. See full listings action, seeking to reclaim and part of the pre-radar enemy aircraft early-warning system. on the ‘Live’ pages of our website make space. What happens The sign HELLO on the mirror’s dish subverts its original intention, estuaryfestival.com when people whose histories Access transforming it from an object of defence to a sculptural message and identities have not yet Visit our website programme pages for of welcome that faces out towards Europe. Commissioned in Our website shares been etched, request a place details on access to artworks. Our online Family Activities partnership with ’s Creative Coast. the listings for an on your land? Part protest, programme includes BSL and/or live Pick up our activity sheets for children extensive estuary themed captioning where possible. For further and young people from our Estuary part possession, part planting. programme, devised and details or assistance contact: 2021 hubs/venues or download from hosted by a wide range [email protected] the website. of regional artists 14 Days on the Atlantic 14 Shelter in Place 18 and organisations. Simon Faithfull Andrea Luka Zimmerman @estuaryfestival Travel the one mile and a third out to the end of A film portrait – of a park, of musician #estuaryfestival the iconic Southend , the longest pleasure William Fontaine (aka Phlocus) and of those estuaryfestival.com pier in the world, to visit Faithfull’s text works that who gathered with him. Exhibited outside chart his journey on a containership. in Chalkwell Park.

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93 Walton-on-the-Naze 19 18 17 21 20 Image credit: Artist, Katrina Palmer working on the installation of Hello. 22 32 Jaywick Photo: Jonathan Wells 31 28 92 30 29 27 3 4 2 1 37 Southend-on-Sea 38 36 35 34 33 24 16 15 Chalkwell 39 23 9 8 7 6 5 13 12 40 Shoeburyness 89 26 90 11 10 Stanford-le-Hope 25 Thamesmead 14 91 87 86 88 Wallasea Lesnes Grays 41

Tilbury 58 42 Dartford 85 43 57 59 Hoo Peninsula 62 Northfleet 61 60 49 48 47 46 45 44 Gravesend Sheerness 71 72 53 56 51 52 55 50 54 Isle of 73 65 66 80 81 82 69 Sheppey 79 63 68 70 64 67 78 Margate 83 NORTH KENT Chatham Golden Years 50 In the Mouth of the River: 62 Herne Bay Sadie Hennessy Water, Empire & Rebellion 77 Inspired by the pop culture collections Dzifa Benson 74 75 76 of Peter Blake (who grew up locally and Seven contemporary British poems selected by 84 attended art school in Gravesend), Sadie Dzifa, to be listened to in the tiny cockle shell is filling shop windows in St George’s vestry at St James’ Church, Cooling, which is Faversham Shopping Centre with local people’s set in the beautiful edgelands of the North Kent collections of memorabilia and ephemera, marshes - one of the most important natural and the stories behind them. Keep your wetlands in northern Europe. eyes out for collections of vintage movie posters, rare trainers, Dr Who and Diana Dors memorabilia, and more. Alongside the collections will be a golden ice-cream van, with a DJ playing people’s favourite songs.

The first thing I did was to kiss 44 The Return of the 60 Draw Hope 65 the ground Fleet Spring Heads Bob & Roberta Smith Jasleen Kaur Adam Chodzko The Draw Hope pavilion is an outdoor gallery and A sculpture, and a sound work, are sited on An immersive science- art-making space. Everyone is invited to come and Gravesend’s Town Pier and pontoon. Both works fiction audio walk (via make their mark by drawing directly onto the walls respond to Gravesend, and Tilbury - just across headphones), through the of the structure, and through workshops with Bob the river and reached by ferry - as sites steeped streets and landscapes of and Roberta Smith and six local artists. The pavilion in complicated histories of migration. Overlooked Northfleet, shaped by its will become a collective portrait of Chatham over identities and voices of south asian diaspora vast chalk quarries. The the festival, focusing on how we retain hope and communities are made visible, from the spiritual walk’s soundtrack moves the love during major events such as the pandemic N and political importance of hair, the head as a audience backwards and and climate change, which have such global and W E container of knowledge, song as oral history and forwards through time and personal resonance. S sacred form of resistance, to the idea of water as space creating a meditative, a carrier of people and practices. utopian ‘garden-city’ of new consciousness. Canvey Island Merge EVENT 34 Wat Tyler Country Park: 10 22 34 Crude Britannia No 1 25 23 24 26 40 42 2 Sat 12 and Sun 13 June Lobster Smack, 11:00 – 17:00 Explore the Merge Canvey SS8 0NR Mirrors for Princes SOUTH ESSEX REHLM - Creative Producers. Ruth Ewan The People of 1381 35 East Beach and Tremor at the 9 Chalkwell Specially commissioned, Mirrors for Princes 26 Five mirrors feature texts outdoor exhibition Edge of Vision interactive collection of works Lobster Smack, channelling the ancient call Gunners Park Chalkwell Lora Aziz & Samuel Restorick programme Jack McNamara and events that represent Canvey SS8 0NR for social equality and justice, with ‘The People of 1381’ project, Shoeburyness J A Baker’s, The Peregrine is the starting Chalkwell Park SS0 8NB narratives of the estuary, hosted by pubs along the University of Reading East Beach Car Park point for a site-specific walk fusing conceived and created by estuary. Accompanied by Watermark 15 The estuary was the epicentre of promenade, audio and 360 degree East 15 students. Wat Tyler Country Park slogan beer mats. SS3 9AE Chalkwell Beach – one of Europe’s largest and most film. FREE - booking essential. near to Surf cafe Pitsea SILT EVENT 1 Wat Tyler Centre SS16 4UH dramatic rebellions. Find out about Arbonauts the people involved and the lives Merge EVENT 10 The Storm Cone 20 Online & In Site-specific performance with open Waiting for 16 PLOT: Water Laid 27 they led. Gunners Park: Sat 29 Laura Daly water swimmers, conceived for the Climate Change Shaun C Badham and Sun 30 11:00 - 17:00 Augmented Reality brings the sound tidal pool at East Beach. For dates/ Isaac Cordal The history of plotlands and water Unbox 36 and spirit of the old bandstand back times please see website. Installed in the waters edge at wells within the surrounding area Harun Morrison the landscape Arts in Transit EVENT 11 to Chalkwell Park. Accessed using 2 Chalkwell Beach to remind us explored through research, painting, Sound and video colliding the Gunners Park: Sat 5 June smart device. HELLO that inaction in the face of climate sculpture and events. poetics of historic emergency 11:00 – 17:00 Katrina Palmer emergency must be challenged. architecture with contemporary Sound Mirrors: Southend 21 Hello and Retreat (and No.5) Out to Dry 28 predictive sea-level models Geocaching App ref GT4A5 co-commissioned by Turner Arts in Transit EVENT 17 Andy Freeman & Samantha Penn of the estuary. Southend Image credit: Quote inspired by Contemporary and Metal as part of Chalkwell Park: Installation revealing the hidden Southend Central Merge EVENT 22 Margery Starre, the only recorded England’s Creative Coast and Estuary Sun 6 June 11:00-17:00 life cycle of our clothes, and how Wasted Voyages 37 The Royals Car Park Chalkwell Park: Sat 5 female voice from Revolt of 1381 2 021. In situ until 7 November 2021. micro plastics make their way into YoHa and Sun 6 June 11:00 - 17:00 Exhibitions SS1 1DG Shelter in Place 18 waterways via washing machines. Critical voyages, witness seminars Andrea Luka Zimmerman Sound Mirrors: 3 Trail 12 and public assemblies exploring New film work in triptych premieres Shoeburyness Adam Dant Leigh-on-Sea REBEL 29 the materiality & culture of waste, Geocaching App ref GT4A5 in Chalkwell Park. Ackroyd & Harvey & its integral history linked to the 3 21 91 92 93 94 Large scale, original drawing of the Mirrors for Princes 23 The spirit of rebellion brought to the environment of the Thames Estuary. Films illustrated map of the 107 mile walk Crooked Billet, SS9 2EP The Water Replies 19 Watermark 4 around the estuary, hosted by the place that seeded the Peasants’ Revolt Sound Mirrors Window display and murals at Shoeburyness Hotel, SS3 9AJ historic landmark hotel, Park Inn by 640 years ago, and in recognition of Rock Repo 38 Essex leg of the world’s first Chalkwell Hall in Chalkwell Park. Radisson Palace Hotel . Benfleet the worldwide movements declaring The Underground Division Art GeoTour for England’s Retreat 5 climate emergency. A new audiovisual installation Mirrors for Princes 24 Creative Coast. Accessible via Performance (See No. 2 for description) that explores the capability of Vanishing Point 13 Barge Gladys, SS7 1NF the geocaching app - GT4A5. Mary Mattingly [Export_Explode> 30 estuary environments to capture Created by artists Dot Dash An English Garden 6 A two-part installation exploring Angela Chan and store carbon. with residents in Harwich, Gabriella Hirst how the plant life of the estuary Film and trail at the former Pitsea Walton-on-the-Naze, Jaywick, Workshops Co-presented with The Old has responded to a changing 19 64 68 Explosives Factory explores the Our Land 39 , Shoeburyness and Waterworks this durational gardening climate over millions of years. On the histories of Britain’s explosives Sonia Hughes, Jo Fong, Southend. Six geocaches project reflects on the history of shore-end platform at Southend Pier The Water Replies manufacturing and their legacies in Lisa Mattocks and Andrew Wrestle respond to the artworks Retreat nuclear colonial legacy and its and in the adjacent estuary waters. Estuary 2021 inspired contemporary extractivism and conflict. Walking, listening and gardening and Hello by Katrina Palmer ongoing impact. Co-commissioned by Focal Point 100 creative journals made to explore ideas of belonging, (No. 2 & 5). Talks Gallery and Metal. Pier opening hours by Thames Estuary residents. Resistance Sustenance 31 ownership and collective action. Ness 7 10:15 - 18:00. Entrance fees apply. Part of a wider project led by Protection Zoe Svendsen & Carolyn Downing poets Caroline Bird and Selina Rachael House Sound Mirrors: 91 Robert Macfarlane’s evocative text Nwulu. On show via window A toolkit (book, exhibition & workshop) 14 Days on the 14 / Tilbury Wallasea Island from Ness (2019) presented as an displays at Chalkwell Hall; in to help us in these strange days. Walks North Atlantic Mirrors for Princes 40 Geocaching App ref GT4A5 immersive 360 audio experience Chatham and Rochester libraries; Simon Faithfull White Lion, Fobbing SS17 9JR using GPS. FREE - booking essential. online via film; and poetic The Commons Way 32 Text-based work at two prominent Sound Mirror: 92 For dates/times please see website. excerpts shared through murals. Lora Aziz and Wyrd Flora estuary landmarks. Diary entries from Watermark 41 Jaywick 22 May – 13 June A publication The Water Replies: Exhibition, foraging walks & a containership crossing the Atlantic Thameside Nature Reserve, Geocaching App ref GT4A5 In The End Is The Beginning. 8 Notes on teaching contemporary workshops around ecology, women, on Southend Pier. See also No 81. SS17 0RN Opening hours (unless otherwise stated): Towards The Thames Estuary poetry has also been created to plants and land in response to The Pier opening hours 10:15 - 18:00. Sound Mirror: 93 Wed - Sun 11:00-17:00 Nadav Kander inspire further estuary inspired People of 1381 and rebel routes. Entrance fees apply Mirrors for Princes 42 Walton-on-the-Naze Large-scale photographs in the poetry. Free to schools on request. Worlds End Pub, RM18 7NR Geocaching App ref GT4A5 All details correct at the time of print. Please check our landscape find a direct relationship Arts in Transit EVENT 33 website for details – as some works may be subject to between image and estuary in a Image credit: Quote from Helen Davies’ journal. Mural designed Wat Tyler Country Park: Watermark 43 Sound Mirror: 94 change in order to comply with Covid-19 safety protocols. work that implies a passage of time, by Rose Nordin and painted by Joe & Charlotte. Sat 12 and Sun 13 June, 11:00-17:00 Tilbury-Gravesend Ferry, Harwich estuaryfestival.com in contrast to our own. RM18 7NJ Geocaching App ref GT4A5

Hoo Peninsula Gillingham Dartford 4 15 41 43 Thames Estuary Trail: No Ordinary Protest 61 Escaping with 70 Our Time - 85 Clock tower No 6 A walk round the end Mikhail Karikis Magwitch Film made with young people, Carol Donaldson & Stephen Turner 45 73 77 83 The Orchard, DA1 1EJ of the world NORTH KENT asking whether sound can mobilise Surveying the North Kent Marshes Gravesend Markers 52 socio-political and physical change. in a small inflatable boat. Follow the A special, festival limited edition of Thames Watermarks Thamesmead and Lesnes Webb-Ellis. St Mary’s medieval church, Higham project on the website/download @estuaryfestival Estuary Trail: A walk round the end of the Gravesend 25 48 71 84 Maria Amidu. A series of Publication of letters exchanged ME3 7LS. Open every day. intro at Riverside Country Park. Abbey Woods world by Tom King. Celebrates 20 year Ferry Terminal / Parrock St eight artworks mark the 107 #estuaryfestival discussing language, the body, our Abbey Wood since the original - and adds three new Crude Britannia mile walk described in Tom [email protected] Car Park DA12 1HF present moment and possible futures. In the Mouth of the River: 62 chapters. Accompanied by an illustrated Platform. Map detailing the Isle of Sheppey King’s Thames Estuary Trail, Data Tree 86 The first thing I did was 44 Pick up a copy from The Gr@nd Water, Empire & Rebellion map by Adam Dant. Book (£20) and history, present and future of and chronicles the artists’ Jonathan Wright to kiss the ground Mon-Fri, or order from website. Dzifa Benson Crude Britannia No 3 71 Map (£7) both available to order at our energy across the expanse of the enjoyment in discovering both Sculpture pointing to events from the Jasleen Kaur Contemporary poems to be heard The Admiral’s Arm Micropub, festival website shop. Walks led by Tom: Estuary to mark the publication of the book and the place. past, present, and future that relate Sculpture and sound work on Gen Z 53 in the cockle shell vestry of St James’ Queenborough ME11 5AD 30 May/3 Jun/6 Jun /10 Jun - full details Crude Britannia - How oil shaped to this historic site. Co-commissioned Gravesend’s Town Pier, co-commissioned The Gen Z group worked with C13th church, Cooling ME3 8DQ. on website. a nation by James Marriott and by London Bor. of Bexley and Metal. by Turner Contemporary and Cement artists Ania Bas and Rose Nordin Inc Hafsa Bashir, Leo Boix, Kayo The Sea View Has 72 Terry Macalister (Pluto Books Fields as part of England’s Creative to produce their own zine. Pick up Chingonyi, Sasha Dugdale, Mimi Me Again 2021) Margate The Lesnes Hundred 87 Principal partners Coast and Estuary 2021. In situ until 7 a copy at The Gr@nd Mon-Fri. In Khalvati & Yomi Sode. Open every day. Patrick Wright & Shona Illingworth Margate Eric MacLennan November. Open Mon-Sat. partnership with The Gr@nd and GYG. Broadcast marking the publication of A celebration project offering estuary An Unknown Earth The Sea View Has Me Again - Uwe Market Street Car Park Rochester CT9 1ED residents the opportunity to name a Sat 22 and Sun 23 May Watermark No 5 45 Our Time - Clock tower 54 Ebbsfleet Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick tree after someone important to them. Three Daws, DA11 0BJ No 1 Our Time - 63 Wright (Repeater, June 2021), Artists talks and artworks: Online Future Archeology EVENT 57 Sonic Atlas EVENT 79 Milton Road, DA12 2RG Clock tower No 2 Sheppey FM. Curated by four artists who all call of Ebbsfleet Caroline Bergvall Lore of the Wild 88 The first thing I did 46 47 The Guildhall, ME1 1PY the estuary home. Our packed Opening Alison Cooke A new performance for spoken Bernadette Russell was to kiss the ground Identity 55 Watermark 73 Weekend online programme includes Display on Greenhithe’s waterfront of voices and vocal ensemble, and Sophie Austin Two geocaches to discover - see Cohesion Plus. The Water Replies 64 The Coffee Pot - Leysdown performance, readings, film and discussion ceramic objects made from estuary to take place in September. Audio storywalk and map geocaching app GeoTour GT4A5 A new audio work to download at Display at Rochester Library ME12 4QB around our themes of climate, imperial legacy clay by Ebbsfleet residents, Sat 12 June See website for more details. through Lesnes Abbey Wood. Community Square featuring local Major partners and rebellion. Full listings and streaming from 13:00-17:00. This and the following Co-commissioned by London Bor. Crude Britannia No 2 48 diverse communities, with a focus on ‘Live’ at estuaryfestival.com 3 projects are in partnership with Our Time - 80 of Bexley and Metal. Artist-led walks Three Daws, DA11 OBJ identity. See accompanying film online. Chatham Faversham Ebbsfleet Development Corporation. Chatham Clock tower No 5 Sun 23, 30 May and 6 Jun. Image credit: Michael McMillan - Lissener 74 Droit House, The Pier, CT9 1JD Photo courtesy of Franklyn Rogers © 2014 Unctuous between fingers 49 Arts in Transit EVENT 56 Deep Thames // 58 Riverside Car Park ME4 4SL Feral Practice and Esi Eshun Explore Thamesmead 89 Bryony Gillard. Guru Nanak Visit Cretaceous Dockyard Car Park ME4 4TZ New darkly comic audio work 26 Days on the 81 Sat 29 and Sun 30 May. A series New film at St Andrews Church, Darbar Gurdwara: responding to human and nonhuman Southern Ocean of new artworks in the landscape Lydia Brockless Draw Hope 65 starting point an 1800s archive Mon 31 May 11:00-17:00 histories of the ruined Oare Simon Faithfull around Lakeside Centre. Works by A new film made in Swanscombe Bob & Roberta Smith of pressed seaweeds and algae. Gunpowder Works. Download from Text-based works at two prominent Calum F Kerr, Chloe Cooper, Cieron Estuary Online looking at what Ebbsfleet is made Outdoor gallery and art making Pre-book for no wait time. Oare (and on website). estuary landmarks. Diary entries C-That, Dom Snow, Marcus Orlandi, Across the festival curated films, commissioned podcasts and of, thinking about the geology of space on the riverfront outside a wide range of artist’s talks, discussions and in-conversation a hundred million years of this giant from a journey to Antarctica with Nathalie Coste & Thamesmead Texas Golden Years 50 54 63 75 78 80 85 Chatham Library. Co-commissioned hosted across different platforms. Full listings and streaming chalk slab. Our Time - 75 the British Antarctic Survey on Sadie Hennessy by Medway Council and Cement from ‘Live’ at estuaryfestival.com 59 Clock tower No 3 Margate’s Harbour Arm. See also Estuary Broadcasts 90 Collections, and the stories behind Our Time Fields. Open every day. The Ebbsfleet Elephant The Guildhall, ME13 7AG No 14. RTM.FM them, plus golden ice-cream van Marcus Coates. Audio work Sat 29 May. A day of specially Emily Whitebread Draw Hope EVENT 66 hosting broadcasts. Co-commissioned which places the songs and calls Trolley Reef 76 and the thing is 82 commissioned artworks made for Audio visual installation at Ebbsfleet Workshops by Gravesham Borough Council of locally threatened bird species Something & Son Maggie Harris online radio broadcast. Participating International Station based on With Medway artists Rosa Ainley, Sutton Manor: Just beyond reach and Cement Fields. into clock towers along the North Poster sited around Faversham, A print of poem, and the thing artists: Anne Hardy, Belinda Zhawi, research on the Ebbsfleet Elephant Lalita Bailey, Liz Bylett, Wendy Daws, Kent coastline. and limited edition print to order is, in Margate cafés (plus audio Benedict Drew, Natasha Bird, Publication (Palaeoloxodon antiquus, straight- Christopher Sacre, Hannah Whittaker. The World’s Largest EVENT 51 from the website, detailing plans on website). Raju Rage & Time is Away. Amina Atiq, Season Butler, Alison Moore, tusked elephant). Gathering of People for a new oyster reef in North Kent. Martha Pailing and Judith Williams. Dressed as David Bowie Arts in Transit EVENT 67 Available to order at our festival website Sadie Hennessy Northfleet Outside Chatham Library: Broadstairs shop. Artists talk: Fri 12 June 7.30pm Online. An attempt to enter the Guinness World Sat 29 and Sun 30 May 11:00-17:00 Seasalter 11 33 56 67 Four contemporary writers respond to the The Return of the 60 Watermark 83 Records, event to be held September, Watermark 77 remote and inaccessible Sutton Manor, Fleet Spring Heads The Water Replies 68 Near North Foreland Lighthouse, see website for how to get involved. The Sportsman, CT5 4BP Arts in Transit one of the oldest and most enigmatic Adam Chodzko Display at Chatham Library CT10 3NN Lata Uphadyaya tours the houses of the Thames Estuary. Science fiction walk through Northfleet. estuary in the white transit van Image credit: Jonathan Juniper Every Fri/Sat/Sun. Pre booking essential. Grain 69 Herne Bay Ramsgate she has transformed into a Image credit: Jonathan Juniper Phil Coy Our Time - 78 travelling art and conversation New multi channel sound work,sited Crude Britannia No 4 84 Clock tower No 4 space. Venues and dates listed at No 3 Slip, Historic Dockyard Royal Harbour Brasserie, Central Parade, CT6 5JQ at numbers. Chatham. NB entry charge to CT11 8LS Dockyard applies.