Tilbury Carnival Dance Workshop
22nd Feb 2018 – a free carnival dance workshop for Tilbury! This is a new addition to the series of workshops at Tilbury Cruise Terminal that will shape its future and rejuvenate Tilbury Carnival. Book your places quick, this is a really rare opportunity for local Tilbury dance students and teachers to work with Jeanefer […]
Thurrock 100 newsletter out now!
Thurrock 100 has been a bit quiet since the event finished last year, but here is the latest round of news for 2018. Get the full newsletter HERE or click the image.
Laying the Keel workshops – Tilbury
Join Kinetika and the Tilbury on the Thames Trust for a series of workshops to shape the long term plans for Tilbury Cruise Terminal and the rejuvenation of the Tilbury Carnival.
It’s a Wrap 2017!
The much-anticipated third year of the Thurrock 100 walking festival started on Friday 7th July in Horndon on the Hill and built to a well- attended finale on Sunday 9th July at Coalhouse Fort which provided the perfect natural amphitheatre. Thurrock’s Mayor, Cllr Tunde Ojetola and Stephen Metcalfe MP took part and were treated to […]
Thurrock 100 Tales Photo Gallery
Here are a selection of the best photos from Thurrock 100 Tales 2017! Photos from all years are also to be found on the GALLERY PAGE. Thurrock 100 Tales 7-9th July 2017. All photos by Mike Johnston. [flickr_photostream user_id=”8100814@N03″][flickr_set id=”72157683612085561″]
Costumes!
Specially Designed Costumes! Fabulous costumes for the performances are currently being designed by Kinetika and students of South Essex College on the Costume Construction Degree, based at High House Production Park. The characters of the show with specially designed and constructed costumes are: Il Dottore as William Green – the lead character in “The Forger’s Tale”, […]
Performances
New for 2017! In 2017 the walking festival included the exciting addition of specially dramatised local stories and songs performed by the Complete Commedia Company. Amongst others, there were tales of Forgers, Shoemakers and what happened at Cash’s Well, all told in the irreverent comedy style of La Commedia dell’Arte with a very Thurrock flavour. Photos […]
Characters of Commedia Dell’Arte
What is Commedia Dell’Arte? Originating in Renaissance Italy, but achieving popularity across Europe, Commedia Dell’Arte is a special type of improvised comedy. It involves stock characters – comic servants, young lovers, self-important pedants and soldiers – each one recognisable by stylised costumes, masks and exaggerated gestures. Troupes of Italian players may have travelled through London […]
More News – Thurrock 100 2017
More details of the Thurrock 100 2017 programme have just been announced. All 2017 walk details and locations can be found HERE. Local arts organisation Kinetika is delighted to announce that the Thurrock 100 walking festival will return in 2017 as Thurrock 100 Tales. The walking festival will take place over 7-9th July 2017 in […]
IT’S A WRAP!
THURROCK 100 STORIES PROJECT ENDS WITH MASS PERFORMANCE AT COALHOUSE FORT 1700 PEOPLE TAKE PART IN 21 WALKS OVER 10 DAYS MORE THAN 3,000 PARTICIPATE IN PROJECT OVERALL This year’s Thurrock 100 Stories project ended on Sunday with a colourful mass performance by over 100 Thurrock schoolchildren from across the borough who used the 100 batik […]
100 Stories
Interactive Story App Over three months, artists Laura Trevail and Jacci Todd worked with communities and schools all over Thurrock to collect 100 great stories about Thurrock, and we’re pleased to be able to share the first of them here. Click the button above to enter, and then click on the pins in the […]
Festival Finale!
On Sunday 17 July at 1:00pm, more than 150 students from 11 Thurrock schools will come together in a spectacular finale at Coalhouse Fort. The young people have been working with the leading choreographer Jeanefer Jean-Charles, one of the London 2012 dance directors, to create their own dance ‘greeting’ using all the Thurrock 100 Stories flags. Please do join us […]
2016 Walking Festival
Thurrock 100 2016 was a walking festival with a difference – 10 days of walks and talks exploring Thurrock’s rich (and sometimes forgotten) heritage as told through 100 stories that you could meet along the way. This year’s walks ranged from 1 mile to 12, from gentle evening rambles to more strenuous weekend hikes, with 21 walks […]
Opportunity for media students – closes Monday!
We’re offering a limited number of students the opportunity to work on Thurrock 100 Stories as part of a small digital team that will be given practical advice and experience on how to learn use film, photography and audio recording in a real-world context, and how social media can be used to expand the reach of live projects to a […]
Thurrock 100 Stories launched today
Purfleet-based arts organisation Kinetika today visited Chadwell St Mary Primary School to launch its new creative community project, THURROCK 100 STORIES, which has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Arts Council England. The company is calling for local people of all ages to get involved in a variety of different ways. THURROCK […]
Arts Council England supports Thurrock 100 Stories
Kinetika is very pleased to announce today that Arts Council England has pledged its support for the Thurrock 100 Stories project. The Arts Council funding is in addition to a grant already secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and means that the company will be able to work with schoolchildren and Thurrock residents on […]
HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND SUPPORTS T100 STORIES PROJECT!
Purfleet-based arts organisation Kinetika has today announced that it has been awarded £64,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a new project building on last year’s Thurrock 100, THURROCK 100 STORIES. Working with local historians and heritage volunteers, as well as 20 schools and 20 community groups from all over Thurrock, THURROCK 100 STORIES […]
Totally Thames comes to Tilbury
We’re delighted to be part of Totally Thames, a festival that celebrates all things relating to the River Thames. Now in its third year, this year’s Source to Sea River Relay began on 15 August when a small bottle of water was collected from the source of the River Thames in a field near Kemble in Gloucestershire. […]
A fantastic finale
Thurrock 100 2015 came to an end on Saturday 18 July. The tenth walk took in much of Grays and Blackshots, before heading out across the fields to Baker Street for lunch at the Kings Arms and then returning to Grays via Hangman’s Woods. We stopped briefly in Grays Town Park, where we were met […]
Thurrock 100 2015 is over!
Thurrock 100 2015 is over! More than 1,500 people took part in the walks, including students from Gateway Academy, East Tilbury, Bulphan and Horndon primary schools, and individuals from 5 to 75 who walked distances ranging from half a mile to 100 miles over the ten days of the festival. On Saturday 18 July people from […]
