REBEL
Artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey bring the spirit of rebellion to Wat Tyler Country Park in respect of the place that seeded a peasant revolt over six hundred years ago.
Resistance Sustenance Protection
A year of drawings - a pandemic record, an archive, a call for change. Outdoor exhibition and workshop coincide with an online event to launch Rachael House's new book.
Restorative Drawing with Liz Atkin for Bethlem Gallery
Liz Atkin leads an absorbing and restorative hour of drawing, focused on expressive mark marking techniques. We will take inspiration from the texture, geography and traces of the Thames Estuary.
REVEAL
An exhibition and sale of works by artists, Sheila Appleton & Ian E Smith and potters, Richard Baxter & Julie O'Sullivan with jewellery by Joe Spurgeon.
Ripping Landscapes
Artist Fiona Spirals has four collage works installed at St James' church, Cooling, on the Hoo Peninsula.
Riverside Soundings - Sound Walk
A unique Riverside Sound Walk to listen to on headphones whilst following a route around Rochester Riverside and The Esplanade.
ROCK REPO Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial
Artist collective The Underground Division have created a new immersive installation for the newly transformed Eco Gallery at Wat Tyler Country Park.
Rubbish Photos – Southend Beach Rubbish Project
Twelve poster-sized images of ‘beach plastic’ by Imogen Welch on Southend pier and short Cyanotype workshops for families – using rubbish collected on Jubilee Beach.
Sat 22 May - 09:29-09:41 - Dawn Raga
We begin Estuary 2021 with a beautiful dawn raga composition by Jatinder Singh Durhailay performed on the Dilruba to mark the morning's High Tide on the Thames Estuary at 09.29
Sat 22 May - 11:00-11:30 - An Unknown Earth
Meet the curators of our Estuary 2021 Opening Weekend programme - Jas Dhillon, Elsa James, James Marriott and Lu Williams. Introduced by festival organisers, Colette Bailey (Metal) and Sue Jones (Cement Fields)
Sat 22 May - 11:30-12:45 - Crude Britannia Pt.1
The Estuary and the Legacies of Oil. Authors of the brand new book on the subject, talk with Dr Vandana Shiva; Lazarus Tamana and Peter May about the role of the Estuary in the story of the UK's fossil fuel empire.
Sat 22 May - 12:45-13.15 - Walking in the Wake
A film by Michael McMillan, working with Dubmorphology. A meditation on the wake of the River Thames ebbing and flowing, after the scholar Christina Sharpe 'In the Wake: On Blackness and Being' (2016)