Kinetika – Design that moves

Ignite Social: Walking, Talking, Connected Communities
2022-11-10 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | Patch, 5-6 Grays Brewery Yard, Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6QR, United Kingdom
Celebrating the success of C100, November’s Ignite Chelmsford Social looks at how walking can highlight our talents, resourcefulness, and spirit.
Every second Thursday, Ignite Chelmsford host a social meet-up with creative inspiration and an opportunity to connect and learn how we can support one another’s work.
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Jane Jacobs
This month we hear from three speakers who are deeply passionate about empowering local communities and have been involved in two different citizen-led walking festivals with creativity at their heart.
Ali Pretty, Kinetika and Lorraine Jarvis, Chelmsford CVS
Ali and Lorraine will share their vision for Chelmsford 100 (C100), a new festival of talking, creating, connecting and walking. They will talk about their creative partnership and how, this year, they created 100 silk batik flags with local community groups to tell the stories of Chelmsford. Be inspired and learn how you can get involved and support future years!
Rowena Macaulay, Walk Colchester
Rowena will talk about Jane’s Walks Colchester, part of a global movement of free, locally organised walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs who believed in walkable neighbourhoods, urban literacy, and cities planned for and by people. She, like us, believed that for a city to work, the people who live there must be involved in decisions about how the city grows and is run. Like C100 by walking together, local residents make connections with each other and create a collective vision and identity for the future of their communities.
Image: Paul Starr for the Chelmsford 100 Festival
Cashless bar with soft and alcoholic drinks. Beer supplied by our friends at Chelmsford Brewery.
How to find the venue: Patch is in the old Chop Bloc space, just off the High Street, by the escalator entrance to Debenhams, and next to Nandos. Google maps: 51.732628, 0.475775
About Ignite Chelmsford:
Ignite is the home for Chelmsford’s creative community. A place to connect with fellow creative people, and collaborate with others that can enrich your work. A place to seek support and inspiration from one another. A place that can ignite a passion for Chelmsford’s cultural identity and future.
Ignite Chelmsford believes creativity thrives in a warm, open, and encouraging environment where everybody is welcome. We are passionate about helping Chelmsford realise its ambition as a city of creativity and innovation.
If you work, volunteer, or study in the creative and cultural industries in Chelmsford, have skills in a field of work that you think could bring out the best in Chelmsford’s cultural identity – or are simply interested in supporting this work, you could join the Ignite community.

Kinetika AGM
2022-11-09 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Kinetika People, 119 Artist Studios, High House Production Park, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, RM19 1AS, United Kingdom
The Kinetika team is getting together for the Annual General Meeting on the 9th November 2022 to talk trustees, auditors, plans for 2023 and more!

World Trails Conference Opening Ceremony
2022-09-26 | Skiathos, Greece, Greece
This year every trail organization attending the World Trails Conference is invited to fly their own custom-designed trail flag at the opening ceremony and then fly their flag at their trail headquarters on return home.

The World Trails Conference is a global gathering of trail experts, trail managers and builders, trail destinations, enthusiasts and academics, who meet every two years to share knowledge, network and ensure the benefits trails offer society continue to be sustainable and supported around the world.

Kinetika’s Ali Pretty will also be speaking on stage on Tuesday 27 September about Beach of Dreams 2024.

Workshop: Two Day Silk Scarf Painting Masterclass, with Ali Pretty
2022-08-31 10:00 - 2022-09-01 16:00 UTC | Nairn Community & Arts Cenre, King Street, Nairn, IV12 4BQ
Two Day Silk Scarf Painting Masterclass led by Ali Pretty, Artistic Director of Kinetika.

Ali Pretty will lead a two-day masterclass in silk painting as part of Nairn Book and Arts Festival.

Each person will be guided through the design, drawing, waxing and painting of a 2mx50cm hand-woven silk scarf using the technique of batik.

At the end of the workshop, the scarves will be sent off for finishing (steaming and dry cleaning and returned to Nairn for collection by participants at the end of September.

Painting Silk Around the World: An evening with Ali Pretty
2022-08-30 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Nairn Community & Arts Cenre, King Street, Nairn, IV12 4BQ
An event as part of Nairn Book and Arts Festival, join Ali Pretty to hear about Kinetika’s extraordinary work from international carnivals to community festivals and their latest highlight, The Thank You Dance, presented on The Mall at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant.

This will be followed by an interactive discussion on ideas for future projects and events in Nairn. The beautiful ‘Stories of Nairn’ flags, created by Kinetika in collaboration with Lizzie McDougall and community groups across Nairn as part of this year’s festival will form part of the presentation.

Kinetika is an internationally renowned company, specialising in creating large-scale hand-painted silks. For over 20 years they have been combining world-class design with community projects to produce spectacular outdoor commissions that engage diverse audiences wherever they work.

Founded by artistic director Ali Pretty in 1997 and inspired by her training in carnival arts in Trinidad and India, Kinetika now has an unrivalled reputation for working with local communities on projects that change the way people feel about where they live. From local community walks in Essex to high streets and city squares across the UK, out to the Great Wall of China, Ethiopia and West Bengal.

'Stories of Nairn' flag parade
2022-08-27 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Old Royal Bank of Scotland building, Nairn, IV12 4BS
Join our Stories of Nairn flag parade – part of Nairn Book and Arts Festival’s Story-themed High Street Takeover on Saturday 27th August.

Gather outside the old Royal Bank of Scotland building, at 3pm.

Take a turn carrying one of our 80 flags created for this event (or bring your own), follow the stilt walkers and parade down the High St, and round the Links – finishing back at the top of the High St.
