Thames Estuary Trail

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Thamesmead Lesnes Abbey Dartford Ebbsfleet Northfleet Events 22 May – 13 June Estuary 2021 Lore of the Wild Gravesend Hub Estuary 2021 is the second edition Bernadette Russell & Sophie Austin Open Everyday Sun 23 May at 10:00 / Sun 30 11:00 - 17:00 of the large-scale arts festival that May at 15:00 / Sun 6 June at 20:00 At Lesnes SE2 0QJ. Call by for more information on celebrates the lives, landscapes Guided walks by the artists at the festival, and to pick up Estuary different times of the day, experience publications, and activity sheets and histories of the spectacular the audio storywalk and map and for children and young people. Thames Estuary. meet the artists who created it. Located at Gravesend Town Pier and Pontoon, DA11 OBJ. The Commons Way Lora Aziz & Wyrd Flora Taking place online, and in the Sat 29 May10:00-13:00 (walk and Explore plant identification). 14:30 - 16:30 Sat 29 and Sun 30 May landscape along 107 miles of Thames (calligraphy workshop) Lakeside Centre SE2 9AN Estuary Trail, contemporary artworks, At Lesnes Abbey Wood SE2 0QJ. A series of new artworks in Exhibition, foraging walks & the landscape and artist-led discussion and events explore and workshops relaying contemporary events, including: concepts around ecology, women, respond to powerful themes resonant plants and land in response to The Remnants of Rebellion People of 1381 and rebel routes. Chloe Cooper to the estuary. Sat 29 & Sun 30 May Full details for booking on website. Gathering at Lakeside Centre from 12:30 Alongside a map that shows the Reclaim the Marshes J D Swan full trail, we have created six, Sat 29 & Sun 30 May smaller sections of the route with Gathering at Lakeside Centre from 14:00 Thamesmead Travelling Cinema accompanying details of the artworks Thamesmead Texas and events to be found as you explore. Sun 30 May 19:00 at the Lakeside centre Route 4 of 6 can be enjoyed across a long weekend - or as three days out.

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Toilet facilities WC Estuary 2021 Hub A2 Gravesend Pier (30min) Estuary 2021 Hub Accessibility Gravesend Pier Please see website for details 30min walk

Thamesmead and Lesnes Dartford Swanscombe Northfleet Abbey and Woods Our Time 85 Deep Thames // 58 The Return of the 60 Abbey Wood Marcus Coates Visit Cretaceous Fleet Spring Heads A series of six clock towers along the Lydia Brockless Adam Chodzko Data Tree 86 North Kent coastline have the songs This new film looks at the materials An immersive science fiction audio Jonathan Wright and calls of locally threatened bird of Ebbsfleet, what it’s made of and walk (via headphones), through the Sculpture pointing to events from the species, to be heard as the clocks would what’s underneath it. Find a sign in the streets and landscapes of Northfleet, past, present, and future that relate chime, on the hour. Dartford’s is hosted landscape, a few metres east along the shaped by its vast chalk quarries. The to this historic site. Co-commissioned by the Orchard Centre, with thanks riverfront from the junction of Tiltman walk’s soundtrack moves backwards by Bor. of and Metal. to Newsstand Comics and Candy. Ave/Ingress Park Ave, with information and forwards through time and space Every day 09:00-17:00. on how to access this new film online. creating a meditative, utopian ‘garden- The Lesnes Hundred 87 city’ of new consciousness. Booking Eric MacLennan is essential, visit the Estuary website to A celebration project offering estuary get all the information and to book a residents the opportunity to name a tree Greenhithe slot between 12:00-16:00 on Fridays/ after someone important to them. Future Archeology 57 Saturdays/Sundays through the festival. of Ebbsfleet The walk takes an hour. Lore of the Wild 88 Alison Cooke Bernadette Russell The earth around Ebbsfleet and & Sophie Austin Swanscombe is famous for its Audio storywalk and map through Lesnes archaeological finds, with this in mind This Must Be the Place Abbey Wood. Co-commissioned by people in Ebbsfleet were asked to Ebbsfleet Garden City London Bor. of Bexley and Metal. Artist- make an object with the Estuary clay, Image credit: Lydia Brockless Estuary 2021 works in Northfleet, led walks Sun 23 & 30 May & 6 Jun. something that could show future Swanscombe, and Ebbsfleet, are generations a glimpse of the way we pilot projects for This Must Be the Explore Thamesmead 89 live now. The fired ceramic objects will Ebbsfleet Place, Cement Fields’ new three- Sat 29 & Sun 30 May. A series of be on show on Greenhithe riverfront year placemaking programme The Ebbsfleet Elephant 59 new artworks in the landscape around on Sat 12 June 13:00-17:00. of research, artists residencies Emily Whitebread Lakeside Centre. Works by Calum F Kerr, and co-commissions created Audio visual installation at Ebbsfleet Chloe Cooper, Cieron C-That, Dom collaboratively with young people International Station based on Snow, Marcus Orlandi, Nathalie Coste in Ebbsfleet Garden City - the first research on the Ebbsfleet Elephant & Thamesmead Texas. new garden city for 100 years. (Palaeoloxodon antiquus, straight- To read more about the project tusked elephant). Estuary Broadcasts 90 go to cementfields.org RTM.FM For more information about Saturday 29 May. A day of specially Ebbsfleet Garden City visit commissioned artworks made for online ebbsfleetdc.org.uk radio broadcast. Participating artists are Anne Hardy, Belinda Zhawi, Benedict Image credit: Mirror Windmills by Nathalie Drew, Natasha Bird, Raju Rage, & Time Coste at Thamesmead is Away. RTM.FM is an online community radio station run by artist space TACO! Please visit our website for details of our Online Programme - and the wide range of estuary themed programme listed in the Associated Programme.

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