Rochester Literature Festival

  • Medway and Swale community consortium successful in Arts Council grant bid

    Arts Council England have announced that a community consortium from Medway and Swale has been successful in applying for a commissioned grant from its Creative People and Places programme – designed to empower communities to take the lead in shaping local arts provision. The Creative People and Places programme focuses…

  • All aboard the imaginary voyage to the Arctic

    Artist/Explorer, Tony Malone will be setting off on two different voyages to the Arctic next summer. While he and his crew physically traverse the sea between the UK and the North Pole, their documenting of the trip on their yacht, the SV Iceni, will not only be shaped by the…

  • The Girl With No Heart

    A beautiful tale to capture audience hearts is coming to Medway between 5th – 8th July. Critically acclaimed Sparkle and Dark’s Travelling Players are delighted to present the première of their new show The Girl with no Heart, playing at The Brook Theatre, Chatham, where they are a resident company.…

  • Film4 Scene Stealers

    Another opportunity for all the film makers amongst you – the Film4 Scene Stealers competition invites you to get involved and help them celebrate 30 years of great films from Film 4. There’s no need for expensive equipment, this is all about showing your imaginative and film making flair. Your…

  • Kentish maids all in a row…

    She Writes is 17Percent’s Whitstable-based, popular showcase of new playwriting by women. For Lounge on the Farm they are happy to present a selection of new short plays by Kentish women writers, entitled ‘Maid in Kent’ on Friday, 6th July. The show at Lounge on the Farm will feature five…

  • Viola Films and UCA Free Summer Film Lab: Mechanical Me

    UCA ( University of the Creative Arts)  in partnership with Kent based film company, Violafilms, are running a four day  summer film course aimed at young people aged 14-18. The course will involve students working to create a new 3 part web series, Mechanical Me based in the Medway Towns, involving Intrigue,…

  • Film The House

    From the makers of Rock The House … Mark Reckless MP has called for local amateur film makers to enter FILM THE HOUSE, a national competition that celebrates up-and-coming amateur film producers, directors and script writers across the UK. Film lovers of all ages are urged to get their creative…

  • Noise v Culture – a collaboration between the Fine Arts and Music departments at Uni of Kent, Medway

    Excess, affect, and the destruction of ‘sense’. In a world of noise, chaos presides in an embrace of the random, the contingent, chance and the ‘might be’. Noise is therefore a category that is not categorisable. It is a situation that has no site, and an experience that delivers no…

  • Summer Writers’ Rendezvous

    The next Writers’ Rendezvous is scheduled for Thursday, 14th June, from 7.30pm and will be held, as usual, at The Two Brewers in Rochester High Street. Feel free to bring along any writing you’d like to share or just come along and find out what’s happening on the Medway writing…

  • A Road of Marvels

    Myth and folktales are the subject of a talk by our very own Artistic Director, author, poet and storyteller Philip Kane at Chatham Library on the 24th May. The talk entitled “A Road of Marvels” will argue for the continuing importance of myth and folktale to our imaginations and to…

  • Show Us Your (Virgin Media) Shorts

    Virgin Media Shorts, the UK’s biggest short film competition is back for a fifth year and they want to see your two minutes and 20 seconds of movie magic! Upload it before 12th July 2012 and you could soon be watching it on the big screen. This year they’ve have…

  • Rochester Writers’ Retreat, the sequel!

    There will be a second one day Rochester Writers’ Retreat on the 27th May between 10am and 4pm, at the CoFWD coworking space in Rochester. This event will be running on a ‘magic hat’ basis like the first one. This means that you pay what you think the day was…