Both an annual festival and a free, year-round cultural programme, T100 encourages participants to experience Thurrock and its surrounding areas in new and unexpected ways.

At Beach of Dreams, we believe in the power of storytelling and science to inspire change - and Ocean Generation is doing just that 🌍✨

How can creativity drive climate action in Belfast? This virtual Beach of Dreams panel will be an inspiring discussion on the city’s dynamic and innovative responses to the climate emergency. Register your free place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/belfasts-c...

Only just a month to go until the @beachofdreams.bsky.social festival! The wild plants are growing beautifully on the shingle. Join us @rosy.garlic for a morning of creativity on West Worthing beach. Sat 3rd May - 11am to 1pm. Tickets are free but please book. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-art-for...

Looking to celebrate the Dawn Chorus next month? Join our in-person lyric writing workshop this Friday, as we begin to create ‘Searching for the Soul of the Sea’ 🌅

JasonSingh returned to Colwyn Bay last week to capture more recordings for our Wales commission’s soundscape.

Over a two-day creative workshop with The Creative Seed, our commissioned artists for South Tyneside, Tessa Bunney and Stevie Ronnie, guided the group in exploring the power of storytelling, photography, and writing to connect with Sunderland’s coastline. 🌊✨

📣 Beach of Dreams launches nationwide on Saturday 3rd May at Tilbury Cruise Terminal and you’re invited! 📆 Sat 3 May, 1pm – 5pm 🎟️ Free event – sign up: www.beachofdreams.org/submissions/...

Next week, join walking artist and Beach of Dreams Artistic Director Ali Pretty in a conversation spanning continents, with textile artists Rachna Toshniwal, Elspeth ‘Billie’ Penfold, and Rahemur Rahman as they explore the intersection of art, waste, and environmental storytelling.

Join our March virtual roundtables to shape your Beach of Dreams event! We’re hosting three national roundtables this month. Our Artistic Director, Ali Pretty, will be providing updates on the festival and it’s a great opportunity to learn more about being involved. 📸 Credit: Tessa Bunney

What if we could truly listen to the symphonies our environment is creating minute by minute? How would it connect you to the trees, insects and animals we share our communities with? 🎤🎶

We’re so excited to reveal our final programme for Beach of Dreams – a landmark festival of art, community and climate action 🌊🥾💬 Explore each of our eight commissions, and find out how you can take part in Beach of Dreams this May: www.beachofdreams.org?extra=storie...

Can’t wait to see this amazing work!

Less than two months until the brilliant @beachofdreams.bsky.social festival! On 3rd May I’m co-leading an art forage in Worthing - exploring the vegetated shingle and responding to the plants with art & writing. #naturewriting More info & tickets (free) here: www.beachofdreams.org/submissions/...

Writing in the Guardian today, Kevin Rushby speaks to Julie Brook, our commissioned artist for Fife, on the scale and ambition of her site-specific sculptural work, Tide Line.

Calling Argyll creatives 📣 Beach of Dreams is your invitation to celebrate and reimagine our coastlines. If you want to be part of Beach of Dreams, submit your event now! 📆 Deadline 27 April ➡️ bit.ly/chartsbd 📸 @beachofdreams.bsky.social

Are you planning a dawn chorus celebration this May? 🐦‍⬛ To mark the beginning of our month-long festival, we’re inviting choirs, bird watchers and nature lovers to join us on beaches across our coastline for International Dawn Chorus Day, Sunday 4th May.

Beach of Dreams is an opportunity to challenge the status quo, connect with others and build a better future for our coastlines in the face of the climate emergency.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Ready to shape your Beach of Dreams event? We’re hosting three national roundtables next month – the perfect opportunity to connect with our Artistic Director, Ali Pretty and learn more about our nationwide celebration you are invited to be part of.

We like to move it, move it! 🌀 This February, in partnership with Kinetika, Start Thurrock and T100 Festival, we invite you to take part in a series of free movement workshops – a chance to get creative, build confidence, feel good! Sat 22 Feb: www.startthurrock.org/whats-on/bea...

In 2021 Kinetika began its Natural Dye Experiment, asking “Where does colour come from?” Known for their bright, vivid batik designs, there is no Kinetika without vibrant colour. But they also believe in being agents of positive change.

🐎 The Big Hoof Journey across Fife, 14 – 29 May 2025 🥾✨ Events are being added across the UK for Beach of Dreams! This May, join The Big Hoof for an inspiring adventure as they journey across Fife’s breathtaking Coastal Path and return along the historic Pilgrims’ Way – on foot and horseback.

💡 This May, it’s your turn to dream big. From Scotland to Northern Ireland, England to Wales, Beach of Dreams is your invitation to celebrate and reimagine our coastlines.

Coastal heritage, creativity, and community unite in Great Yarmouth, Harwich, and Orford Ness as part of Beach of Dreams ✨ Collecting Dreams, Shifting Futures is making waves!

One of the most important model city-building projects in the world. “Initially, everyone thought it would cause gridlock. But people adapted. Now we can’t imagine the highway ever being here.” The fantastic people-place that replaced an elevated highway, transforming a city & improving traffic.

Be part of a movement reimagining the future of our coastlines! 🌊 🗓️Outdoor Activity Groups Roundtable Monday 27 January 13:00 – 14:00 🗓️Thinkers Roundtable Tuesday 28 January 18:00 – 19:00 Register your place: www.eventbrite.com/cc/beach-of-...

Are you an RSA Fellow? Join us this Thursday as Beach of Dreams’ Artistic Director Ali Pretty leads an online discussion at The RSA to explore the future of the UK’s coastal environments: www.thersa.org/events/fello...

What does home sound like to you? 🎤🌆 Over the past few months our partners T100 Festival have been working alongside Young Ambassadors from U Turnships, on an exciting new project capturing unlikely sounds in Thurrock’s landscapes with DJ and sound artist Jason Singh.

Thank you to Sussex Dolphin Project for sharing recent sightings of Humpbacks across Sussex Bay! 🐋 Culminating in some very public breaching displays. The photo was sent to Sussex Dolphin Project by Kevin Burchett, Hastings. 📸 The video was sent by Ricky Martin. #SussexBay #SussexDolphinProject

Here’s something for your radar this January… 📢 With just four months to go until our UK-wide coastal arts festival, now is the time to make your plans to be part of Beach of Dreams! 🌊

If you’re a Beach of Dreams member, did you know that all of our monthly seminars are archived in our members’ area?💡

Pale Sunrise - linocut by Sussex based artist and printmaker, Annie Soudain More of this artist's gorgeous artwork here: anniesoudain.co.uk #art #winter #snow #linocut #trees #birds

We love hearing from our members about their different reasons for joining us - thank you Largo Communities Together, Alice Cobbin and Andy O’Hanlon for sharing!

Venturing onto the banks of the Thames in search of discarded objects is always going to turn up a few surprises – alongside the occasional bike wheel! 🚲 🍂 Rahemur Rahman, our commissioned artist for Thurrock, recently led this litter pick with a difference...

We’re looking for a freelance composer to create an electro-acoustic score for several Beach of Dreams events in 2025. The evocative soundscape will provide the backdrop for a site-specific dance performance and choreographed procession. More info: beachofdreams.org/call-out-bea...

What do you hear when you listen to the sea? What can we preserve for the generations to follow us? 🐚🥁🛶

“The moon plays such an important role in our lives, and we take it a bit for granted. It sets the length of the day, the tides coming in and out… some people think that tidal movement might have been responsible for creating life on earth.” 🌙🌊 — Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Are you part of a sailing, walking, kayaking, climbing, hiking, mud larking or wild swimming group? 🏊🏼‍♀️ 🥾 🧗‍♂️ Join our roundtable this Thursday to hear all about how you can get involved with our UK-wide coastal arts festival, #BeachOfDreams! 🗓️ Thursday 28 Nov Register: bit.ly/3ZpTUwP

Are you a researcher, academic, activist, philosopher, radical, scientist, biologist, dreamer… or something else entirely? 🌏 💡 📢 Join us for a virtual gathering to hear all about how you can get involved with our UK-wide coastal arts festival, #BeachOfDreams. 🗓️ Fri 29 Nov Register: bit.ly/3B5TjrF