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Alkerden Hub, Whitecliffe, Ebbsfleet
Currently in production, due to be installed 2027
Architects: HTA Design
Public Art Consultants: FrancisKnight Consultants
A significant permanent artwork for the atrium space of the new community hub, read more about the project here Alkerden Hub
WALK + DRAW
SUNDAY 30TH NOVEMBER
10.30am - 1.30pm CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE
Art session for adults exploring the creative possibilities of walking, noticing and drawing in the landscape, walking as discovery. We will look at the natural forms found in the chalk cliffs at Castle Hill and discover ways of recording and sketching taking inspiration from the shapes and colours in them. Using paper, pencil, graphite, chalk pastel, we will explore how that can develop the ideas for the public artwork.
The session will consist of a short walk approximately 30 -45 mins (weather dependant) along the chalk cliff path and then back to the venue to dive deeper into mark making and drawing. Participants will be provided with an A4 clipboard to use for sketching outside and various drawing materials. If they have a sketchbook, they are welcome to bring that along. Coffee and cake will be provided!
The new artwork for Alkerden Hub will respond to the geology, textures and colours of the chalk cliffs and the way that nature has reclaimed the landscape created by the industrial heritage of the quarries.
Booking 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
HERITAGE WALK OCTOBER 2025
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