National Historic Ships' flagship of the year 2023

AHOY SHIPMATES

LV21 is a historic, 40 metre steel-hulled lightship transformed into a floating art space and performance facility.
We are creative producers and practitioners working with a broad range of clients and partners.
We devise, deliver and document art, culture, education, heritage and wellbeing initiatives.

LV21 is a unique venue with an individual and distinct identity, one of Kent’s prime platforms for cultural activities across diverse artistic disciplines.


National historic ship no.3220


Featured Projects


A Song For Kent

Whose Hoo is a partnership project working alongside the local community to leave a lasting legacy that continues to protect and celebrate the peninsula's irreplaceable landscape. The Whose Hoo Heritage Festival celebrates local heritage and brings together inspiring stories, people and places.

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SILTings

Dartford & Gravesham Local Cultural Education Partnership (known as createD toGether) is an emergent LCEP working together to ensure that all children and young people in the area have access to a high quality arts and cultural education offer.

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SILTings

LV21 has been awarded one of the four inaugural Creative Estuary Commissions supporting the region’s artists and engaging its communities, to further connect them with the abundance of creativity that exists along the River Thames and the wider Estuary.

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UPCOMING EVENTS


LV21 is currently undergoing some major internal renovation meaning access and events are limited for the next few weeks. A fuller programme of events onboard is being scheduled. In the meantime we continue to deliver arts, education and wellbeing projects out in the community.

Find out about our ongoing current projects here.

BEAMS

LV21 is switching on her searchlights and turning the spotlight on the Gravesend riverfront at St Andrew’s Gardens for Gravesham Light Festival 2024...

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Date 26 - 27 Jan'24
Time 1730 - 2030
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Featured Films


Whose Hoo

A film documenting the pilot phase of the Whose Hoo Heritage Festival, produced by LV21, celebrating local heritage and bringing together inspiring stories, people and places from across the peninsular.

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THE SHIPPING FORECAST

An exhibition featuring a collection of new pieces by the acclaimed Kent based textile artist, writer and lecturer Cas Holmes whose textile work is often inspired by her life, the journeys she makes, the places she visits and people she meets.

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