Estuary 2025 Canvey Hub
Located within the Knightswick Shopping Centre, the Estuary 2025 Canvey Hub serves as a vibrant focal point for the festival, offering an engaging space for families and the broader community.
Estuary Adventures: Family Friendly Walks
Young people from Yellow Door on Canvey Island worked with artists and creative practitioners Hannah Brailsford, Lauren Bolter and Emma Mills on designing two family friendly walks on Canvey.
Estuary Adventures: Walk 1: Seafront
Join us for a fun family adventure along the seafront on Canvey Island led by Hannah Brailsford. Each stop on this walk is an invitation to explore, reflect, and connect with the surroundings and local history.
Estuary Dreams
Join two film screenings in Basildon and Chalkwell of Estuary Dreams – a community experimental storytelling project led by neurodivergent Basildon filmmaker and artist Aaron Shrimpton. This edition of Estuary Dreams features around 20 participants, including emerging artists, recent graduates, or creatives outside traditional paths.
Film programme at Gravesend Town Pier
The Estuary 2025 film programme explores wider metaphors connecting to the Vessels theme and our relationship to the Estuary, acting as a container for stories in transit.
Film programme at Wat Tyler Country Park
The Estuary 2025 film programme explores wider metaphors connecting to the Vessels theme and our relationship to the Estuary, acting as a container for stories in transit.
Forever Connected
Forever Connected is a newly commissioned mural by internationally acclaimed artist Damilola Odusote.
HOP ABOARD! Chatham
Exploring how both the Estuary landscape and vessel metaphor can hold memory, transformation, and possibility. Supported by Southeastern & Railway 200.
HOP ABOARD! Gravesend
Exploring how both the Estuary landscape and vessel metaphor can hold memory, transformation, and possibility. Supported by Southeastern & Railway 200.
Hulked sound walk
Created by writer Jeremy Scott and sound artist Anna Braithwaite, this sound walk along a stretch of the Thames in Kent offers stories, poems, songs and music about the Thames Barges. It includes contributions from primary school students, members of a local choir, and people from the local Thames Barge community.
Marshy Mud Flats and the Call of the Curlew
A project around artist Fiona Spirals' collages and paintings on the endangered, rich biodiversity of the North Kent Marshes. It includes an exhibition accompanied by a dedicated soundscape, a workshop, a talk and the opportunity to meet and greet the artist-in-residence.
Moving Down the Estuary
A solo exhibition by Gabi Mind with painting, collage and cyanotype which maps a lifelong migration down the estuary, from London to Whitstable. The artist is also offering two children' and young people's workshops around ideas of climate change.