The Culture Awards, presented by Canterbury for Culture, celebrate the quality, diversity and vibrancy of culture across Canterbury District and East Kent. www.thecultureawards.org/2012-winners/
The Award for Excellence is for a cultural practitioner or collaborative group of practitioners working in East Kent that has created a new work of high quality within the last twelve months.read more
After the wettest April on record we realise that it is high time we updated you again on DAD’s activities since our last newsletter in November.read more
Art and heritage plan to put Dover on international map: Boosting the economy of Dover through culture was the focus of a seminar which has been held in the town.
Dover Arts Development (DAD) showed a preview of the recently finished Watermark film. The preview was a special screening for the 50 members of the cast, nearly all of whom worked at the Mill. KETV studios kindly allowed the screening to take place at their premises. We were quite nervous about showing the film to everyone but there was no need to worry as everyone said how much they enjoyed the film. For Jim Low it was “a nice trip down memory lane.read more
The year 7 class worked on the Old Buckland Mill project, researching the mill and talking to family members. Some pupils brought in newspaper clippings and mementos that belong to family members that used to be employed at the mill. In lessons pupils creatded studies of the mill in pencil, pen and ink and in mono printing.
We've set up a playlist of the 2-minute teasers created by Robert Bernard, Marley Showler, Korinna McRobert, Naomi Hemmings, Jamie John Jenkinson and Cassandra Beckley. The playlist also includes a piece by pupils at Green Park primary. Click here to go to the playlist.
Dover Arts Development (DAD) will be showing the first seven minutes of its new documentary, Watermark, about Buckland Paper Mill at the Brighton film festival presented by Cine-City this weekend. Watermark is one of eighteen projects awarded grants by Screen South to make use of archive film footage.read more
