ABOUT WHOOP
Heritage Festival
The Hoo Peninsula is a unique landscape with a rich natural, historical, and cultural heritage.
WHOOP Heritage Festival celebrates this local heritage and brings together inspiring stories, people and places from across the peninsula.
Join local artists, performers and community partners for the inaugural WHOOP Heritage Festival on Saturday 17 May 10am-4pm at the Slough Fort in Allhallows for a free fun family day out!
Explore site-specific art and sound installations, take part in drop-in arts and crafts activities, learn new skills and meet some walkabout characters from the local history.
Enjoy complimentary refreshments or bring a picnic and just sit back to enjoy the live entertainment and take in the atmosphere.
Meet some of the Whose Hoo partner organisations and the newly appointed team to find out more about the project and opportunities to get involved.
Share your stories of the Hoo Peninsula and let us know what you would like to see at next year’s WHOOP Heritage Festival.
And much more...
Please note:
- Suitable for all ages – Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times at the event
- Free parking on site
- Complimentary hot drinks, refreshments and nibbles (while stocks last).
ABOUT
WHOOP Heritage Festival is a new annual community festival produced by Medway based cultural organisation LV21 in collaboration with local community partners.
The festival event in mid-May is accompanied by a programme of community participatory satellite events and volunteering opportunities throughout the calendar year across the Hoo Peninsula.
WHOOP is part of the 4-year Whose Hoo Partnership Project funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest funder for the UK’s heritage. Using money raised by National Lottery players we support projects that connect people and communities to heritage. Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. From historic buildings, our industrial legacy and the natural environment, to collections, traditions, stories and more. Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on to future generations. We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.
Thanks to National Lottery players.
To find out more please contact us.
About LV21
LV21 is an arts, culture, education and heritage organisation with extensive experience of producing large-scale creative programmes. LV21 specialises in heritage themed, community participatory, site-specific work across art-forms, working in close collaboration with creative professionals and a variety of organisations, community groups and individuals of all ages and abilities to encourage active participation and empower participants to get involved with innovative cultural projects that affect positive social change.
For examples of some of our work please see: lv21.co.uk/projects/
Community Engagement
LV21 specialises in community led programme development – engaging people from diverse backgrounds, different ages and abilities, particularly those who have not previously engaged in creative heritage projects, and providing an opportunity to work together with arts and heritage professionals to explore local history, nature and stories. This approach enables us to raise the profile of the local area while creating a sense of place and highlighting the positive contribution creative activity can make to people’s lives. Our extensive local connections and flexible approach enables us to work with a wide variety of partners to develop and deliver genuine community engagement.
We will aim to engage as many different groupings as possible with the WHOOP Heritage Festival to ensure rich diversity and widest possible participation, with particular attention to reaching the more vulnerable, hard to reach sections of the community, and providing opportunities for sharing ideas and skills development through co-curation. We will also seek to provide further opportunities for wider communities to participate in the events through our extensive local community networks and communication channels while nurturing a community steering group to take ownership of the festival and continue its development and delivery beyond the initial pilot and the 4 year programme period.