Artists

Zoë Svendsen

Zoë Svendsen directs the performing arts company METIS making participatory theatre performances and installation works.

Zoë Howe

Zoë Howe is a Southend-based music writer, musician and artist. Her books include Lee Brilleaux: Rock ’n’ Roll Gentleman, Barbed Wire Kisses - The Jesus and Mary Chain Story, Wilko Johnson - Looking…

Yomi Sode

Yomi Sode is a Nigerian British writer, performer, and facilitator.

YoHa - Graham Harwood, Matsuko Yokokoji

Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHa English translation 'aftermath').

Xiaowen Zhu

Xiaowen Zhu is a documentary filmmaker, media artist, curator and writer. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, she uses video, photography, performance, installation…

Will Birch

Will Birch is a writer and lyricist, drummer and songwriter with the Kursaal Flyers and The Records, author of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution and Ian Dury - The…

Wendy Daws

Wendy Daws is an artist and sculptor whose work takes inspiration from the visually impaired communities she has worked with over the last 17 years.

Webb-Ellis

Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis are British/Canadian artist filmmakers.

Warren Harper

Warren Harper is a curator and researcher based in Essex, where he is Director at The Old Waterworks (TOW), an artist-led charity and artists’ studios in Southend-on-Sea.

Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir

Webb-Ellis are British/Canadian artist filmmakers whose work often reveals the story of its own making in which coincidence and fiction play a significant role.

Acclaimed by the Guardian as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough's books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea and The Long-Player Goodbye, his latest, A Walk in the Park, is a loving exploration of public parks and green space described as ?quirky and delightful by the Observer.