The programme for JAM on the Marsh, the annual festival of music, art, photography and poetry is now available online, with an eclectic mix of events and exhibitions.
The launch day is July 7, when the four exhibitions open. These include Tristan Fewings’ “Between the Sea and the Sky”, “hART – Power Lines”, Jillian Bain Christie with her mixed media pictures (these first three exhibitions can be found at the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre) and the Marh Academy Photography Exhibition at the RSPB reserve centre at Dungeness.
Also the big musical event takes place on July 7. This is a performance by Onyx Brass at the Engine Shed at New Romney. Tickets at £49 include a return trip on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch steam railway and a hog roast.
There are many other concerts spread out across different venues on the Marsh, many of them free for under 18s. Other free events include two special poetry readings, the first on Sunday July 10 at St Mary the Virgin, St Mary in the Marsh. Here, Jonty Driver will perform Before, by Peter Fields, a sequence of 22 poems. Fields will intersperse the poems with a series of performance on the violin. On Saturday July 16, Gawain Douglas will perform a recital based on Shakespeare’s sonnets, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the author’s death. Donations to Freedom from Torture will be welcomed.
As well as the main exhibitions, there are many other shorter art and photography events. For example on Sunday July 19, a childen’s Make and Fly a Kite workshop will be held from 10am until 12 noon at the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, run by hART, a co-operative of professional artists living and working in Hythe and Romney Marsh.
A particularly unusual event will be the “I can draw your dreams workshop”, by Kate Walters also at the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre between July 8-10. Your inner visions and memories will be turned into a piece of art for you to take home.
For more information about JAM on the Marsh and to book tickets, visit the website.
Photos: courtesy of JAM