Art » Alkerden Hub
Alkerden Hub, Whitecliffe, Ebbsfleet
Currently in production, due to be installed 2027
Architects: HTA Design
Public Art Consultants: FrancisKnight Consultants
A significant permanent artwork commissioned for the atrium space of the new community hub, read more about the project here Alkerden Hub
HERITAGE WALK - NOW AND THEN
SATURDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2025, 11AM, MEET AT THE BLUE BEAN CAFE, CASTLE HILL, DA10 1AD
DISCOVER AMUSING AND FASCINATING STORIES ABOUT THE PLACES OF ANCIENT SWANSCOMBE AND ITS CONNECTION WITH ALKERDEN (PRONOUNCED ARK-E-DEN). THE WALK WILL BE LED BY LOCAL HERITAGE EXPERT CHRISTOPH BULL AND WILL LAST APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR, IT WILL BE AN EASY WALK ON FLAT GROUND, PLEASE BRING ANY REFRESHMENTS AND WEAR SUITABLE CLOTHING.
IT WILL ALSO BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET ARTIST JO CHAPMAN AND HEAR MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO STAY ON AFTERWARDS, THERE WILL BE A DISPLAY IN THE MEETING ROOM AT THE CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE, TO VIEW THE IDEAS FOR THE NEW ARTWORK.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME, THIS IS A FREE EVENT BUT PLEASE BOOK THROUGH EVENTBRITE
THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT FOR THE PUBLIC ART PROJECT.
OTHER EVENTS
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE EBBSFLEET DESIGN GROUP
SATURDAY 5TH JULY 2025, CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE
SATURDAY 26TH JULY 2025, CHURCH ROAD HALL, SWANSCOMBE
FOR EVERYONE
AUTUMN 2025, NATURE AND CREATE WALKS, DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
2026 DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
CHALK
Between the end of the Jurassic and the beginning of the Tertiary Era a great amount of chalk was formed. It was such a striking episode that the whole period was called the Cretaceous Age. Minute and innumerable oceanic animals called foraminifera, floating about near the surface of the sea, sunk to the bottom when dead, and then accumulated in a slowly solidifying ooze. We call the resultant accumulation Chalk. If we examine a handful of it under a microscope we find that it consists of the casing of the foraminifera – really shells of the most delicate and beautiful design, six thousand to a square inch.
In view of the fact that such deposits are only found today at a depth of about twelve thousand feet, it would seem that this Dorset hill was once in the abysses of the sea whose surface flowed where the low flying clouds float now. We approach the white cliffs of Dover, and gaze upward at the seeming solid shows of earth and rock. It is well to realise the reality, that this too is water or chiefly water in another style, and that upon the backs of innumerable urchins of the sea our history is stayed.'
QUOTE FROM - THE WORM FORGIVES THE PLOW BY JOHN STEWART COLLIS