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Kinetika is delighted to announce that it has secured a grant of £134,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund to develop the T100 Walking, Talking & Making Festival into its own community-run organisation over the next three years.
The funding will enable T100 to develop on its own path, separate from Kinetika, continuing to bring people together to build connections through walking, talking and making. The festival will then endure beyond 2023 and be a lasting legacy of Kinetika’s work in Thurrock
As a result of this award, we are extremely happy to welcome Katie Beadle to the team as the new Coordinator, who will be working with us 2 days a week.
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Jon Eastwood, Senior Head of Regional Funding at The National Lottery Community Fund, said:
“We are delighted to fund this project, which is a fantastic example of people coming together to build new connections in their community.
Thanks to National Lottery players, the T100 Walking, Talking & Making Festival will continue to expand and offer local people the chance to be creative, get outdoors and meet new people.”
Read more here
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Save the date: T100 Calling 5 -19 July 2020
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Our theme for 2020 is T100 Calling - a call to action in response to the climate emergency, a chance for communities to make changes to their local area and to creatively re-imagine their future.
Details of the walking and creative programme will be announced in the coming months, however we can reveal we will be working with visiting artist Therese Muskus to design and make a series of beautiful mandalas!
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These are the key dates, and there will be a walking programme during the weeks that links them together.
- Sunday 5 July, Launch event – Welcome to Purfleet-on-Thames, High House Production Park, – celebrating sustainable communities featuring a giant mandala made from produce, locally grown within a 15 mile radius of Purfleet.
- Saturday 11 July, Grays – addressing plastic pollution in the River Thames we are working with Thames 21 local volunteers to collect plastic items that will be transformed into a beautiful plastic mandala.
- Sunday 12 July, Little Belhus Country Park – Working with Rural Arisings on the creation of a new insect habitat in a mandala made from recycled bricks, rubble and broken down ceramics
- Saturday 18 July, Tilbury Beach - Claiming community space with a glistening mandala made from gems collected on the foreshore
- Sunday 19 July, Shoeburyness Beach – A natural mandala of shells and pebbles with local communities coming together to celebrate diversity.
Save the date, tell your friends!
T100 Calling is 5 - 19 July 2020
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If you'd like to get involved and lead a walk, or perhaps be a walk steward, then we'd love to hear from you.
We need extra pairs of hands to help with many aspects of the project so if there are other things you'd like to help with, like making mandalas, you'd be extremely welcome.
Our next meeting is 12th March 2-5pm at Kinetika studios in Purfleet – all welcome.
For info, please contact Katie Beadle: katie@kinetika.co.uk
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Sunday 26 January: Union Chapel, Islington, London, 6pm
Kinetika is delighted to have collaborated with the innovative and empowering Singing Our Lives project to design a unique mandala backdrop for this performance.
Singing Our Lives is a ground-breaking project that celebrates diversity, solidarity and inclusion bringing together refugee, migrant and local communities to create new music and perform with professional musicians.
Buy tickets by clicking the button below.
Images of the backdrop in progress
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Walking Training Programme – An Opportunity
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Ali Pretty, the Artistic Director of Kinetika, is attending this walking training programme taking place across Europe and as fans of using walking to build communities, you may be interested to come along too.
Info: Metropolitan Trails
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Thurrock 100 would like to extend a huge thank you to its funders and delivery partners.
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