Category: Art
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Unspeakable: Poetry Launch at the Medway Women’s History Month Finale
“In the beginning is the hearing”, Mary Daly The Rochester Literature Festival and Medway Women’s History Month team are proud to announce the long-awaited launch of Unspeakable, the poetry collaboration between Chatham born SM Jenkin, and International writer and multi-disciplinary artist Rosemary McLeish. SM Jenkin says: “This pamphlet arose from…
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Finale Day at the Net Community Hub
Last chance to celebrate Medway Women’s History Month! The first event of the day, and we’re talking to fearless females who founded their own companies which culturally enrich their communities. From 12noon-1pm, meet Medway’s Creative Women. The conversation will be chaired by our very own Festival Director Jaye Nolan, a…
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Medway, City of Culture 2025 – can you help the bid?
Medway’s 2025 UK City of Culture bid is seeking members for a new voluntary trustee group and working groups to guide the set-up of an independent culture trust to deliver Medway’s City of Culture ambition and to support the development of the bid throughout 2020 and 2021. The groups seek…
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The Dickens Festival Lowdown!
Christina casts her creative eye over our programme for the upcoming Dickens Festival weekend. The RLF is back this summer’s Dickens Festival weekend with another fantastic programme with performances from some brilliant authors and performers. This year we will be based at the beautiful, newly refurbished Eastgate House (Dickens’ once…
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Dyslexia House Writing Competition
Do you have a story to tell but find it hard to get it down on paper? If it’s a struggle, why not contact Dyslexia House for help? They can help get your words into print. So get in touch right now for writing help! Or do you prefer…
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What is Creative Care?
The wonderful Christina takes a closer look at the reasons why the Cultural Arm of the Kent DAA created and delivered the Creative Care Expo. Creative Care and Dementia The Cultural Arm of the Kent Dementia Action Alliance hosted a very successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone in early February,…
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Proving what we all knew at the Creative Care Expo
We’re fresh from our first activity of the year, the successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone, where practical experience confirmed once again that arts and culture play a significant part in wellbeing.
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On Art (and why we need it)
Christina takes a close look at the Adam Curtis film Hypernormalisation, and his assertion that the art world may be partly responsible for Brexit and Trump. One of the positive things that came out of Brexit and Trump’s victory is that people are now more interested in politics. Everyone is…
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