CURRENT PROJECTS
RiverSwell is an ambitious 5-month partnership project, led by LV21 working in collaboration with Tiller & Wheel, designed to connect local communities and creative sector practitioners with the river Medway and pave way to help develop a longer-term heritage initiative that will further community and visitor access to the rich river heritage and enhance the Chatham riverfront.
Layered Landscapes is a partnership project developed and delivered by North West Kent Countryside Partnership in collaboration with LV21. Working with local community groups, schools and visitors to the Sevenoaks area Layered Landscapes will promote and celebrate the unique landscape and geology of the region through the lens of the Cross Channel Geopark.
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 WHOOP Heritage Festival celebrates local heritage and brings together inspiring stories, people and places.
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 that inspires and responds to their needs.
ONGOING & ARCHIVED PROJECTS
We are delighted to be working with artist Wendy Daws to support the community engagement activity and production of Draco Roffensis: The Rochester Dragon as part of the MESS ROOM Connects and Rochester Cathedral partnership project commemorating 900 years of Textus Roffensis, a medieval manuscript.
LV21 brings together local communities and individuals from different backgrounds to instigate positive exploration of citizenship and the role arts and culture play in supporting community cohesion.
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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.
A Song for Us celebrates our communities and the power of music to bring us together. As part of a national music project marking this historic time, Tania Holland Williams is creating a new song Walking Each Other Home inspired by the people of Kent.
Anne Langford, a theatre director, facilitator and performer, will be taking up a 28-day Pull Up A Chair artist residency in Gravesham in March 2021. In partnership with LV21 she will be exploring the theme ‘pride’ with local residents and communities during her stay.
THINK UP is a creative foundation programme developed by LV21 in partnership with Royal Opera House Bridge and Ebbsfleet Development Corporation to support arts and cultural engagement through nursery, primary, secondary and specialist schools in north Kent.
LV21 worked in collaboration with Gravesham Borough Council, Cohesion+ and Kent County Council in this +Margate.19 project celebrating the rich cultural offer across north Kent during the Turner Prize 2019 exhibition at Turner Contemporary.
The Lookout aboard LV21 is much more than just a ship’s wheelhouse: it’s an observatory, a retreat for reflection, a laboratory for testing new ideas and experimentation, a meeting place for collaboration and networking, a workshop for sharing skills and developing innovative ideas.
A variety of workshops exploring and celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Gravesham including writing workshops with poet Patience Agbabi, radio workshops with WordPlay, animation workshops with RouteStock and an installation in the lantern by Steve Mace.
LV21 was one of 12 Lead Arts Organisations for INSPIRE ‘Leading through Culture’ Project, funded by Kent County Council, Artswork and Royal Opera House Bridge. This ambitious programme involved 130 schools and a key group of arts and cultural organisations from Kent enabling young people to connect with and create arts and culture.
We were thrilled to take part in the opening ceremony of The Great North Run and Great North Run Culture which is an annual series of arts projects, events and exhibitions that celebrate and explore sport and art. Featuring film, photography, dance, drama, writing and much more, the world’s largest half-marathon is the starting point for commissioning exciting and innovative art.
Look About was a two-year mapping and collecting project led by Portsmouth based artist/geologist Jon Adams in response to Accentuate and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the South East of England. This creatively driven, multilayered project wove together science and art, digital and analogue, and Jon’s autobiographical experiences.
LV21 was the lead arts organisation working in close partnership with Kent Equality Cohesion Council and The Gr@nd Healthy Living Centre across Gravesham as part of the county wide Six Ways To Wellbeing programme, funded by Kent County Council, with investment from Artswork and the Royal Opera House Bridge.
LV21 was an establishing and core member of Creative People and Places: Swale & Medway, an Arts Council funded project that aims to enable local people to shape the cultural provision of where they live; through a spirit of creative collaboration and the art of doing. It aimed to showcase and test new arts activities, support local people to develop their own creative ideas, help strengthen existing arts provision and celebrate what’s great about the arts.
Focal Point was a spectacular performance of aerial daredevilry and pyrotechnic explosions on board LV21, the finale of the FUSE Medway Festival. A unique commission by FUSE, the finale performance was a collaborative project bringing together LV21, Scarabeus Theatre, exponents of multi-disciplinary aerial performance, and creative pyrotechnicians The World Famous.
