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T100 festival celebrates another successful year

By Editor · On October 5, 2020

T100 Calling 2020 final mandalas

T100 Walking, Talking and Making Festival goes international, celebrating another successful year, despite COVID restrictions

From Marseille, Bern, Kolkata and Valparaiso to Grays, East Tilbury, Tilbury and Purfleet-on-Thames, hundreds of people have been actively engaged in this year’s festival that is home grown in Thurrock.

Now in its 6th year, T100 goes from strength to strength. In 2020 the theme was T100 calling, a call to action to rise to local challenges through the collective process of designing and making beautiful mandalas.

Despite the challenge of constantly changing restrictive COVID measures, they have done little to stifle the amazing efforts by internationally renowned arts organisation, Kinetika who laid on the 12-day festival, deemed a “phenomenal success” by local participants.

The festival invited people everywhere to get involved designing environmentally-themed mandalas. Thousands of site viewers flocked to the festival website over the course of their mandala making to get involved with T100 Calling’s message and over 280 mandala activity packs were downloaded, sparking interest and online activity across Europe, and as far afield as India, with the people of Thurrock going above and beyond to make it a success.

Many people participated in sharing their mandalas made at home via the project’s hashtag #T100Calling and in the T100 Walking Arts Facebook group.

Kinetika was able to deliver 7 large-scale themed mandalas, across Thurrock, working with teams of local artists and community groups in carefully curated bubbles of 6. (For details of themes see below.)

The awareness raised locally has been incredible. The Spring Clean mandala in Grays on September 19 saw CVS volunteers and Thurrock Young Carers make mandalas from plastic collected from the Thames over the space of a year by volunteers at Thames 21; filling more than 1,824 sacks of rubbish altogether.

Steve Catchpole, leader of the local litter picking team said “In terms of the plastics collected between Rainham and Tilbury foreshores, we have found Smartie lids which indicates some of it must have been in the river for up to 45 years.”

Grays mandala

Katie Beadle, T100 Project Manager said: “The way the community creatively worked together to achieve the festival aims amidst changing restrictions is a demonstration of Thurrock’s resilience. A true celebration of success in spite of trying times, with an incredible response online.”

Ali Pretty, Kinetika’s Artistic Director said “T100 aims to inspire the next generation of artists and young people to respond creatively to the challenges ahead, using arts as a means to seek solutions and bring people together.”

This year T100 has worked in close collaboration with local partners, such as Thurrock CVS, to encourage wider participation and build a strong foundation for the festival’s long-term future.

Kinetika also worked alongside Rural Arisings to create last Saturday’s Renewal mandala in Little Belhus Country Park, designed by John Little of GrassRoof Co, to make a permanent insect habitat for families and residents to enjoy for years to come.

Ali urges more volunteers to come on board. “T100 has sewn many seeds for the future, our next step is to bring our mandala teams together over the winter to imagine the next steps we can take locally to make a real difference in our communities. Keep in touch on social media, get involved and join our team for T100 2021.”

Mandala packs are still available to download from here.

Create your own themed mandala and post it online using the #T100Calling tag, you could feature on the T100 Calling social page.

See the Mandala gallery pages below.

Festival mandala gallery

Tide Turning button
germination button
Spring Clean button
Make Do and Mend button
ION button
Shoes button
renewal button
Grow Your Own button

Thurrock 100 would like to extend a huge thank you to its funders and delivery partners. T100 Calling was part of Totally Thames 2020

 

Mandalas!

  • Festival mandala gallery

    Mandala Gallery

    September 27, 2020
  • Mandala

    Mandala Activity Packs

    June 15, 2020

Walks 2020

  • T100 Calling films

    T100 Calling Films

    June 13, 2021
  • T100 Calling 2020 final mandalas

    T100 Calling Wrap Up

    October 5, 2020
  • T100 Calling beach mandala

    T100 2020 Overview

    August 18, 2020
  • Turning Tide mandala by Hazel Huber

    13 Sept Tide Turning: Beach

    August 18, 2020
  • Mandala from leaves by Nell Edwards

    15 Sept Tide Turning: Green Spaces

    August 18, 2020
  • Mandala by Sarah Moorcroft

    16 Sept Germination: Parks

    August 10, 2020
  • T1002020 walk4 Tilbury

    17 Sept Cruise Terminal to Worlds End

    August 10, 2020
  • Spring Clean mandala by Steve Catchpole

    19 Sept Spring Clean: At Home

    August 10, 2020
  • Make do and Mend mandala by Hazel Huber

    20 Sept Make Do and Mend – At Home

    August 10, 2020
  • Shoe mandala by Alexandra Godfree Flemmings

    22 Sept In Other People’s Shoes: Take a Walk

    August 10, 2020
  • Imagination our nation mandala by Jane Barry

    23 Sept Imagination our Nation: In Your Mind

    August 10, 2020
  • T1002020 Walk 9 Mardyke Way to Lakeside

    24 Sept Purfleet-on-Thames to intu Lakeside

    August 10, 2020
  • Renewal mandala by Hazel Huber

    26 Sept Renewal: In Your Garden or Street

    August 10, 2020
  • Grow your own mandala by Marion Robertson

    27 Sept Grow Your Own – In your Garden

    August 9, 2020

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