“It has been a pleasure working with you over the last year, from initial conversations and conceptions, to watching the beautiful flags and scrolls being carried down the Mall. Your performance held such an important message on so many levels, and it was lovely that you could involve the Key Workers and their stories throughout the whole process. It was the perfect way to say, ‘Thank You’ and to end the Let’s Celebrate section of the Pageant.”

"I just wanted to say a massive thank you both for bringing the Diwali Queen, dancers and bead workshop to this year's Diwali on Trafalgar Square 2023. It was wonderful to work with you all and I have to say the Diwali Queen was my personal highlight. "

It was the flags that instantly grabbed me. The colour and detail, and the way they sprang into life with a breeze and some sunshine behind them. What soon became apparent was that bearing a seven-metre pole with a dazzlingly colourful silk banner attached had something of a religious pilgrimage about it.

The depth of the T100 festivals proves how embedded and established it is within the local landscape and how listening is pivotal to artistic integrity & co-creation. The future is bound to be colourful and richly layered in exciting content. Thank you for shining a light on Thurrock in ways beyond words.

Trailblazer schools love being part of the Kinetika programmes as this gives them the opportunity for wider community engagement, something many of them are actively seeking to do.
Trailblazer schools have been involved with Kinetika since 2016 with a variety of projects from Kitchen Table to Tilbury Carnival and T100.