Rochester Literature Festival

  • The Sparky Project – Fuse Festival Workshops

    The Sparky Project, an offshoot of the Imagination Your Nation initiative, has several opportunities coming up as part of their commitment to develop and deliver a wide choice of creative activities to the community. The workshops will give local people the chance to experience, hands on, the art and craft…

  • Shakespeare success for MLT star

    Originally posted on Opinion Man: Medway Little Theatre’s Katie Foster (second from right) performing in As You Like It at the Rochester-based theatre in 2011. Picture by Keith Leitz. When Medway Little Theatre’s Katie Foster performs as Rosalind in As You Like It for the Oxford Shakespeare Company (OSC) next…

  • Higham Writers 5th Showcase

    Higham Writers will be holding their fifth showcase on Friday, June 14th, at Higham Library from 7.30pm. The programme includes a selection of readings from members, featuring plays, anecdotes and memoirs, all aimed at providing an entertaining evening for the audience. Wine and food are included in the £4 ticket…

  • Kaleidoscope at Rochester Art Gallery; Zara Carpenter in the Craft Case

    Photo: Kaleidoscope Collection. Ink 2013. Hand and computer generated images, digitally printed cotton sateen, 100x100cm Neil Bottle Neil Bottle’s exquisite new Kaleidoscope series of printed textiles explores the relationship between digital textile printing and craft printing techniques and has been created especially for this solo exhibition at Rochester Art Gallery. To find…

  • Medway Monday: Collective Poem #14

    As the dawn treader walks hallowed ground The mist scattered around his footsteps Imprints left passing memories with each step Striding into the future Swirling and spiralling, finding the floor with a thump I look up and wonder where I am To see the blue sky above It filled my…

  • Survived – Chatham Clinic – Open 19th May 2013

    Originally posted on Creatabot: The clinic will be open in Chatham on May the 19th 2013. Book at http://www.survived.eventbrite.co.uk A unique theatre experience is taking place at Sun Pier House, Chatham, on the 19th May. Entitled “Survived”, the event is described as “site responsive interactive theatre”, which means you as…

  • Kent County Council 100 words short story competition

    To celebrate National Share a Story Month, Kent County Council are running a 100 words competition. The competition is open to all, and can be about any subject you like. There are four age categories: School Year 2 and under School Years 3 to 6 School Year 7 to 11…

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #13

    I lost my lfe in my second life A post life where I was free The sun rose every day anew A bright etchasketch moment witnessed by the milkman Two pints. On the doorstep. She’d asked for more. Just like the day before I thought I’d seen that couple Before…

  • Medway Monday: Rochester Sweeps Festival

    May Day bank holiday weekend brings to us the first of Medway’s major festivals. This is our Artistic Director Phil, with Border Morris side, Wolfshead and Vixen – more photos will follow on Jaye’s blog later, where you can also see pictures from the Jack in the Green Awakening Ceremony…

  • ME1 TV to showcase Medway writers

    There’s a wonderful opportunity coming up for local writers and poets with the newly founded internet TV channel, ME1 TV, based in Rochester. With many years of experiences in all areas of the media, including TV, film, music and theatre, ME1 TV aim to showcase all aspects of Medway and…

  • Medway Monday: Potlatch Collective Poem #12

    The grey cloud let the rain come down The rain clouds dropped the raindrops on a clown Rhyming with its nature, down Fiddlesticks she said In a manly voice Gruff and loud, booming for all to hear The train steamed past It was an electric fast Coming through the golden…

  • ME4 Writers: The Word Shed at Fuse Festival

    ME4Writers present their collective, collaborative project ‘The Word Shed’ at Fuse Medway Festival. Come and visit The Word Shed, where inside, instead of seeds, pots and a lawnmower, and that drawer full of things that you might need one day, you will find yourself in a blossoming, inspirational world of words. During the festival,…