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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 ESSEX Mattocks crossings at Tilbury 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 England’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 Pier, 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. 94 Harwich 93 Walton-on-the-Naze 19 Basildon 18 17 21 20 Image credit: Artist, Katrina Palmer working on the installation of Hello. Pitsea 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 Canvey Island 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 Thames Estuary 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.