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Taking place from the 2 – 25 June, T100 People will feature a series of events, walks, talks and community celebrations along the Thames Estuary, including the return of The Thank You Dance to Thurrock. The Thank You Dance is a section of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant created by Kinetika and featuring local key workers and community.
T100 People launches on Thursday 2nd June with a flag procession into Purfleet-on-Thames, Kinetika’s home in Thurrock. Here the community will join in a special event culminating in the lighting of the beacon, one of 1500 beacons across the country to be lit for the Queen’s Jubilee. Over the next three weeks, 12 more walks will criss-cross Thurrock taking in towns, villages and green spaces with each event highlighting a different community value and key worker sector.
Partners in the festival this year include Essex Book Festival, Essex Wildlife Trust, local schools and businesses, community volunteers, young carers and the Thurrock based theatre company, The Complete Commedia Company. Alongside the walks is a programme of community celebrations with picnics, talks, music, performances and lots of flag waving as we revisit the highlights from previous T100 years, including recognising the T100 people, past and present who make the festival what it is today! See all the events for this year below.
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This year, Kinetika has been commissioned to create a special section of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant called The Thank You Dance, featuring multigenerational participants drawn from across Thurrock, London and Milton Keynes. The Thank You Dance will feature over 200 performers, including local key workers, volunteers and young people, adorned in silk and will join the Platinum Jubilee Pageant which will wind through the streets of Westminster and along The Mall past Buckingham Palace on the 5th June.
Building on the themes and values identified in each place visited over the last two T100 festivals, as well as the link to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant, T100 People will honour the people of the local area and the wider Thurrock community. The images of seven inspirational local key workers, who represent the wider Thurrock community, will be seen on a series of silk flags in the Thank You Dance in London, as well as throughout the T100 festival in Thurrock, where their stories will be shared on specially devised walks.
T100 People will culminate on Sunday 25 June with a spectacular finale at the Port of Tilbury, as The Thank You Dance comes home to Thurrock. Leading a procession from Tilbury Town to the Port Open Day at the Cruise Terminal, the parade will celebrate all the amazing people across the borough who have helped make T100 a success and who have worked so hard to keep their communities safe and secure during the last two years.
Find out all about T100, how it came about and all the amazing things we’ve done so far, in our T100 Exhibition here.
All the 2022 walks are listed below, the map pins are the start points. Find the detailed walk route maps on the individual walk pages.
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