Launch Event – RE-WATCH
Re-watch the virtual launch of Electric Medway
- Venue: Online
In Arcadia by Live at Fort Clarence part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Build a Creative Connections App with futureCoders – SOLD OUT
Become a Learning Developer and build an app in 5 workshops
- Venue: Online
Connecting to The Healing Voice with Debbie Sowter – SOLD OUT
A therapeutic approach using music, voice, free-flow writing, sound and gentle movement to help your health and wellbeing
- Venue: Online
Above and Below the Water Line by Jehane Markham
An audio poem inspired by the maritime history of East London
- Venue: Online
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind by MESS ROOM
Engaging video stories from Medway’s blind and visually impaired community
- Venue: Online
Postcards from Medway by Alison Neighbour
Use your phone to respond to our postcards placed around Medway
- Venue: 20 Outdoor Locations
Unheard Voices pt 1 by Medway African and Caribbean Association
Listen to untold stories from Medway’s community
- Venue: Online
Your Face, Your Self by Hannah Whittaker
Listen at home, explore your relationship with your reflection
- Venue: Online
Strood Stride by Swilly part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Electric heART programme at Pentagon Shopping Centre
Check out our exhibition pop up space during the festival
- Time: 9:00 am
- Venue: Online
Live Discussion #1 – Always Online? – RE-WATCH
How do we reach Medway residents who aren’t connected?
- Venue: Online
For Jenny With Love by LGBTQ+ Creatives – SOLD OUT
A live theatre show based on a true story of prejudice
- Venue: Online
Take Me Back To The Sun by David Jenkin and Janet Moore
A upbeat installation merging dance music with projected computer visualisations
- Venue: Online and Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
The Struggles and Laments of the Common Lightbulb by Emily Berry
A video short, from the perspective of a lightbulb
- Venue: Online
The Paper Chains Tree by LGBTQ+ Creatives
A paper chain tree with QR code content and an inspiring message
- Venue: Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
Medway’s Greatest Heroes by Restart and Nucleus Arts
Vote online for Medway’s Greatest Hero
- Venue: Online
grain sh0relin3 by whthppnsfpshthtbttn? part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Postcards from Medway by Alison Neighbour
Use your phone to respond to our postcards placed around Medway
- Venue: 20 Outdoor Locations
Peninsula Birdseye by Raising Youth
A film exploring stories of living on the Hoo Peninsula
- Venue: Online
Weed Walking: Haunts of the Wild Flowers 2020 by Wordsmithery
A literary exploration of Luton’s wild flowers
- Venue: Online
Listening Between: Here and There by Jane Pitt
Try out a geolocation sound walk in Chatham
- Venue: Chatham Town Centre
Unheard Voices pt 2 by Medway African and Caribbean Association
Listen to untold stories from Medway’s community
- Venue: Online
Biodynamique by Rowan Illingworth
A guitar and synth-based music video created during lockdown
- Venue: Online
The Improv Story Slam Gillingham by Dizzy O’Dare – SOLD OUT
Online family show where you decide where the story goes
- Time: 11:00 am
- Venue: Online
Bees, Purr, Hum by Jane Pitt part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Tea and Flowers, 1849 by Kate Mechedou, Mrs Bakers Medway Theatre Company
Get to know ‘The quiet Chatham revolutionary’
- Venue: Online
Warm Welcome by Jake Cowx
Digital artwork capturing cats at home during lockdown
- Venue: Online
an outside space by Sophie Stone
An audiovisual work documenting the artist’s daily walk in lockdown
- Venue: Online
Breathe In… Breathe Out by Jane Pitt
Come and experience a multiple megaphone installation
- Venue: Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
Minecraft Club by Medway Youth Service
Play, build and create on Minecraft
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Venue: Online
hARBORfLOWS by A<-OR C part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Postcards from Medway by Alison Neighbour
Use your phone to respond to our postcards placed around Medway
- Venue: 20 Outdoor Locations
Coding Art with Python Turtle with Dee Thrussell – SOLD OUT
Learn how to code art and graphics in 3 workshops
- Time: 10:30 am
- Venue: Online
Livi Wilmore presents…
A showcase of experimental pixel art and 3D works
- Venue: Online
Connecting to The Healing Voice with Debbie Sowter – SOLD OUT
A therapeutic approach using music, voice, free-flow writing, sound and gentle movement to help your health and wellbeing
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Venue: Online
Fly Me to The Moon by members of the Medway Youth Orchestra
Medway Youth Orchestra’s magical performance of Fly Me to The Moon
- Venue: Online
Plants That Play by Robert Jarvis – RE-WATCH
Visit this experimental listening station which turns plant power into music
- Venue: Nucleus Arts Centre, 272 High St, Chatham ME4 4BP and Facebook Live
Sunken Silence by Dizzy O’Dare
Try out a geolocation sound walk in Hoo Peninsula
- Venue: Online
Live Discussion #2 – DIY Medway – RE-WATCH
What is the role of ‘digital’ in our unique cultural scene?
- Venue: Online
Play to Win Tickets for Medway Rapture
Classic video game competition to win tickets for Medway Rapture
- Time: 11:00 am
- Venue: Street Food Area, Dockside Outlet Centre, Chatham
Interactions by Lydia Reid
Festival artist Lydia Reid shows us how she created the Play ident
- Venue: Online
Unheard Voices pt 3 by Medway African and Caribbean Association
Listen to untold stories from Medway’s community
- Venue: Online
Bhangra Lockdown by Cohesion Plus
A awesome Bhangra routine performed during lockdown
- Venue: Online
Media and Filmmaking by Medway Youth Service
An introduction to filmmaking
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Venue: Online
Standish & von Bergdorff @ Slough Fort part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Eight Days A Week Cover by Abigail Clarke and Catherine Joslin – The Lockdown Project
The Beatles classic recreated during lockdown
- Venue: Online
Music and Wellbeing Workshop by Dis-Quiet – SOLD OUT
Young people music workshop exploring techniques to support wellbeing
- Venue: Online
MEDWAY: A Game of Cones by Nick Ashton
Play this immersive ‘choose your own adventure’-style game set in Medway
- Venue: Online
Portal by Cybersaur Arts
Use trigger sensors to bring a shop front installation to life
- Venue: Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
Play to Win Tickets for Medway Rapture
Classic video game competition to win tickets for Medway Rapture
- Time: 11:00 am
- Venue: Street Food Area, Dockside Outlet Centre, Chatham
TRS Tots, What’s in The Box? with The Right Step – SOLD OUT
Virtual dance, storytelling, rhyme and play for 0-5 year olds
- Venue: Online
Graveyard Shimmering by Nigel Adams part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Peninsula Memoirs by Raising Youth
A new song written about the history of Hoo Peninsula
- Venue: Online
Postcards from Medway by Alison Neighbour
Use your phone to respond to our postcards placed around Medway
- Venue: 20 Outdoor Locations
Making a VR Experience with SparkedEcho – SOLD OUT
Learn the basics of building a VR experience on the SeekBeak platform
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Venue: Online
Persephone’s Dream – 3D fragments by Fat Lady Opera
Listen to a 3D sound piece offering fragments of a new opera
- Venue: Online
Live Discussion #3 – Creative Power – SOLD OUT
How do we ensure greater diversity in who holds creative power and cultural visibility in Medway?
- Time: 11:00 am
- Venue: Online
Unheard Voices pt 4 by Medway African and Caribbean Association
Listen to untold stories from Medway’s community
- Venue: Online
Between Two Parallels by Chloe Collins
A online exhibition of oil paintings exploring disassociation
- Venue: Online
Medway Music Association’s Composition Challenge winner – Jake Sigston
Hear winner Jake play his composition created during lockdown
- Venue: Online
The Healing Dark by Tracy Affleck part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Nothing Can Separate Them: Twinprov’s Virtual Improv Show!
Watch comedy improv and virtual director technology in action!
- Venue: Online
Sky Above The Scene by Hannah Whittaker
Come and see this large scale video installation
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Venue: Grand Magazine, Fort Amherst, Dock Road, Chatham ME4 4UB + Facebook Live
A Medway Futuricity by John Vincent
Watch this surreal short film, set in a future Rochester
- Venue: Online and Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
Active Armchairs with The Right Step – SOLD OUT
Seated dance classes delivered virtually online
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Venue: Online
Towns by Brutalist Architecture In the Sun part of Minimus
Short pieces of improvised music, sound experiments and acoustic oddities
- Venue: Online
Happy Day and Ja Da by Medway Music Association Summer Music Course Choir
100 young Medway voices having a singalong!
- Venue: Online
Creative Arts Exhibition by North Kent College
A showcase of North Kent College Creative Digital Design students
- Venue: Online
Postcards from Medway by Alison Neighbour
Use your phone to respond to our postcards placed around Medway
- Venue: 20 Outdoor Locations
Bingoing Crazy by Loosely Woven Theatre
A surreal comedy with super playful bingo themed participation and mind-blowing virtual effects
- Time: 8:00 pm
- Venue: Facebook Live
Lamentations of Innocence by Samuel D. Loveless
An expressive musical piece exploring the loss of innocence
- Venue: Online
The Beginning by Rianna Patterson
A visual documentation of politics and protest during lockdown
- Venue: Online
Beacons of Hope by Manisha Dusila
A series of graphic illustrations exploring ‘hope’
- Venue: Online
Unheard Voices pt 5 by Medway African and Caribbean Association
Listen to untold stories from Medway’s community and a special song
- Venue: Online
The Improv Story Slam Rochester by Dizzy O’Dare – SOLD OUT
Online family show where you decide where the story goes
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Venue: Online
Digital Connections Showcase by futureCoders
The Creative Connections app, build during the festival, goes live!
- Venue: Online
ReDiscover by Loop Dance Company
A film rediscovering the dance world during lockdown
- Venue: Online
Learning to Live…..again…by Maureen Wolloshin
A soothing sonic painting and musical piece recalling the trauma of active military service
- Venue: Online
Minimus Mobile Picnic
A live streamed socially-distant picnic, featuring improvised sound experiments
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Venue: Facebook Live
Kind Things Happen Here by Becky Vincer
A visual artwork amplifying local stories of kindness
- Venue: Online and Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
SongTalk Album by Tania Holland Williams and Gavin Alexander
Listen to a new album co-created by songwriters and participants
- Venue: Online
Lovely Day Virtual Ensemble by Kent Music
80+ Kent Music students with tutors and staff give a virtual performance of the Bill Withers classic
- Venue: Online