Sat 22 May - 18:00-18:50 - Whip it Good
A screening of Jeannette Ehlers performance Whip It Good (2013 - ongoing) followed by a discussion with the artist, alongside curator, Aleema Gray and led by Fiona Compton (Know Your Caribbean).
Sat 22 May - 19:00-19:50 - Water. Ink. Voice.
A live reading and performance with poet, playwright and peformer Inua Ellams to explore the theme of water through identity, displacement and destiny
Sat 22 May - 20:00-21:00 - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Antonio Roberts closes our first festival day with a sharing of a new audiovisual artwork about the connections between the river and technological advancements
Shelter in Place
A new work by filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, featuring Phlocus. Made during the summer of 2020, it will premiere at Estuary 2021.
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors is a trail of unique sound portraits of six locations on the Essex coast - to be discovered as part of the world's first Art GeoTour.
Stone Place Stories
Stone Place Stories uses Google My Maps to bring together, in a digital format, images, stories and art that convey the unique social, economic and environmental history of this small parish.
Swansula, Relics of Estuarine Magic
Swansula, Relics of Estuarine Magic is an ongoing world building and curatorial project – a fictional archive which frames sculptural, moving image, animated, painted, drawn, poetic, audio and digital artworks as artefacts from the future, excavated from the speculative world of Swansula.
Tales of the Fanns: Walking & Arts Festival
A series of free walks and activities will occur across the area to reveal unexpected and delightful treasures waiting to be discovered in the Land of the Fanns
Thames Estuary Trail
A second, special limited edition of the first and to date the only book that decribes the Thames Estuary as one epic 107 mile trail. With new chapters, an extended walk and artworks to discover along the way.
Thames Estuary Trail: an illustrated map
Created by the renowned artist and cartographer, Adam Dant, thisThames Estuary Trail map beautifully illustrates the great stories, histories, pubs and landmarks to be found on the epic 107 mile walk around the Thames Estuary coastline from Shoeburyness to Margate.
The Cinder Path Project
The Cinder Path Project will investigate the successful campaign 50 years ago to stop a major road “The Road To The West” being built along the Cinder Path from Chalkwell to Old Leigh
The Commons Way
An exhibition of new calligraphy panels relaying contemporary concepts around ecology, women, plants and land in response to The People of 1381.