Three-week long festival celebrating the Thames Estuary begins today
TODAY marks the opening day of the much-awaited Estuary Festival. The three-week festival will take place across multiple sites along the Essex and Kent shorelines (including many events in Southend, Pitsea, Chalkwell and Shoebury) and will feature an array of artistic and literary lectures and workshops, visual art installations, films, talks and community activities all themed on the Thames estuary’s past, present and future. The opening weekend programme will kick off with ‘Unknown Earth’ – which will see 22 hours of live broadcast discussion and specially commissioned online...