NKLAAP Projects
Past and present NKLAAP projects are listed below. Please select individual projects for more information.
Open Brief
NKLAAP are looking to support and enable artists to deliver exceptional projects across North Kent, and to develop audiences for cultural activity. We are inviting proposals across artforms...
Dance 4 Your Life
"Dance can change your life"
dance 4 your life is a distinctive dance and health programme especially designed for young people aged 14 years old. It will kick start a creative dance focused, participatory and dance science research based activity that will take place across the NKLAAP region...
Moon View
"What creatures come alive as the moon rises into the heavens and the tides are drawn up from neaps to springs?"
This is just one question posed by artist Stephen Turner who will venture into the night time environment of the wilder parts of Gravesham, Medway and Swale over the 28 days of a lunar month from mid July to mid August 2008...
Hei People
Have you seen them yet?
A series of four wonderfully wacky public art installations consisting of 646 dressed scarecrow-esque figures made from wood, straw and dirt, by the internationally acclaimed Finnish artist Reijo Kela, are appearing magically overnight at secret locations across north Kent in Dartford, Gravesham, Medway and Swale...
Vanishing Shores
A photographic interpretation of the North Kent marine landscape and communities.
The partnership commissioned Hove based artist Marcus Haydock to interpret and document the marine landscape from Faversham to the Dartford Crossing. Marcus has captured images ranging from the iconic to the everyday...
changeling
The Hazlitt Theatre and The Changeling Theatre Company have worked in unison for nearly eight years, producing open air theatre of the highest quality in some of the most beautiful venues throughout Kent. Artistic director Rob Forknall and Producer Mandy Hare’s aims when establishing this tour de force was to make Shakespeare accessible to all and, more importantly, enjoyed by an audience who might not otherwise be exposed to these great works in more formal surroundings...
Junk Drumming
NKLAAP engaged The Beat Project to produce a series of Junk Drumming workshops aimed at young people 15 – 19 years through the four key areas of Gravesham, Dartford, Medway and Swale.
The aims of the Junk Drumming Projects are to raise awareness and educate young people regarding further learning and training opportunities in their local areas in all subjects but especially music and the arts...
Common Ground
The aim of the Common Ground project was for participants to explore the theme ’sense of place and identity in a period of great change’ through community interaction in the development and production of a regional creative film drawing on the creation of four physical characters inspired by local stories.
Community workshops were undertaken to create the basis for the film’s content...