This week, Sofia is joined on the sofa by the Coordinator of DUENDE, Edwina Jaques to discuss the Swale Media Arts Centre's latest exhibit inspired by dreams.
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00:02 - Hello and welcome to Made in Kent live on KMTV.
00:22 I'm Sophia Aitken and in this show,
00:24 we travel around the county to discover Kent's
00:26 tastiest treats, most delicious drinks and artisan goods.
00:30 Well, in today's show, we'll be talking all about dreams
00:33 as a sitting born art centre has opened a new exhibition
00:37 dedicated to sleep and dreams.
00:39 Plus I visited a Tunbridge cafe and taken up a new skill.
00:43 So stick around to find out what that is.
00:45 And we'll be taking a peek into what events
00:47 are happening across Kent.
00:49 But first, dreams can often lead to some incredible pieces
00:53 of imagination.
00:54 And that's why the Swale Media Art Centre in Sittingbourne
00:57 has opened their latest exhibit inspired
01:00 by our nightly hallucinations.
01:02 Whether it be paintings, sculptors, fabrics and more,
01:05 the display offers a dive into what some of the areas
01:08 artists say they experienced during a deep sleep.
01:11 Well, our reporter Henry Luck went along to capture us
01:14 some of those stories.
01:16 - What do you often see in your dreams?
01:19 Swale Media Art Centre in Sittingbourne
01:22 offered the public the chance to witness art inspired
01:25 by the dreams of their artist.
01:27 It's all a part of their latest exhibition named Dreamscape,
01:31 which featured an array of pieces made from paintings,
01:35 sculptures, glass, photography, and fabric.
01:40 The art centre even received the visit
01:42 from the Mayonesse of Swale when the artwork was put up
01:45 on the 2nd of September.
01:47 With all this amazing artwork on display at this exhibition,
01:51 I've got to say I'm especially drawn to this one
01:53 by Julie Bradshaw, Guardians of the Sea.
01:57 I absolutely love its bold use of dark colours
02:00 and there's always something so fascinating
02:02 and calming about the ocean.
02:05 The display was created by the group Duende,
02:08 who are also celebrating their fifth anniversary.
02:11 - I went to Venice in 2018.
02:14 And while I was there, I went to an exhibition
02:16 of female votive prehistoric little statues.
02:21 And when I came out, I had an epiphany and I thought,
02:24 I want to start a women's group.
02:27 Because for centuries, there have been men's groups
02:29 of all sorts.
02:30 And I thought, women need an opportunity
02:33 just to be able to talk amongst themselves
02:37 and to think about themselves.
02:39 - Dreaming has no doubt been a powerful source of inspiration.
02:43 - Me personally, I mean, I love working around fantasy
02:46 or dream-like.
02:48 So this fitted in really well with, you know--
02:51 - And the work that Wina and her fellow artists
02:55 have put into this has been great.
02:58 - Yeah, yeah.
02:59 We love hosting it, you know, as we do a lot of groups.
03:02 We've got Swell, we've got Sheppey Art Society coming in,
03:07 lots of different people as well.
03:09 So yeah, it's great.
03:09 - There's always something, there's never a week,
03:12 except for perhaps when the snow's around.
03:15 - Yeah.
03:16 - Most weeks, it's only here.
03:18 - Yeah, yeah.
03:20 - I was also lucky enough to speak to another artist
03:22 involved in the project.
03:23 - My glass work is actually inspired by sort of
03:28 loving yourself and treasuring yourself.
03:31 I lost my grandparents earlier this year,
03:34 two of them in quick succession.
03:35 So the dragon sort of symbolise, you know,
03:38 learning how to love yourself after loss.
03:41 And the mirror's placed in there,
03:42 so you can put yourself in the position of being,
03:44 you know, embraced or hugged by a dragon almost.
03:48 - Next time you dream,
03:49 has this exhibit tempted you to recreate what you see?
03:52 Henry Buck for KMTV in Sittingbourne.
03:57 - Very interesting piece.
03:59 And we're now joined by Edwina from the piece
04:01 to discuss a little bit more.
04:02 Now we heard from you with Bartholomew in Kent tonight,
04:06 but we're gonna go into it a little bit further.
04:09 So this exhibition, it's a really interesting idea,
04:12 I guess, because dreaming is something
04:14 that all of us or most of us do most nights.
04:16 So why did you want to sort of incorporate that into art?
04:21 - Well, I felt it was very important
04:22 in its way of using art again
04:24 as a creative therapy for people.
04:27 And I had made up a questionnaire
04:30 that when people come in to visit,
04:31 I ask them to put down a dream or dreams
04:34 that have affected them or anything they wanted to say.
04:38 And then we talk about it a bit.
04:40 And I'm also doing a workshop this Saturday
04:43 for people to come in and talk about dreams.
04:45 And then we're going to do a hands-on artwork
04:48 that will explore this.
04:50 But I feel that in most cultures,
04:53 or other cultures, I should say,
04:55 dreams are very important.
04:57 I have a Native American friend,
04:59 and she always discusses her dreams with her children
05:04 in the morning at breakfast.
05:05 And they all go around,
05:06 and everybody tells what dream they had the night before.
05:10 And she said, "This is a wonderful way
05:12 "to find out what's happening in your children's lives,"
05:16 which makes perfect sense.
05:17 If they're having a dream of anxiety,
05:19 she wants to know, find out what it is.
05:21 And it's a tool for her to use.
05:24 And that's what we should be using.
05:26 Everybody dreams, except for people
05:28 who have been affected with strokes and what have you,
05:31 but they just don't remember them.
05:34 But you can learn how to access your dreams better
05:39 by writing them down,
05:40 even if it's little bits and pieces.
05:42 'Cause sometimes you wake up after a dream,
05:44 and you'll think, "Oh my God, that was a bit weird."
05:47 And if you get up and write it down then,
05:49 I know it's a bit of a hassle,
05:50 but eventually you'll remember more and more.
05:54 And now I remember practically all the dreams that I have.
05:58 - I guess it'd be quite interesting
05:59 to look back at a dream you had a year ago,
06:02 or even a month ago.
06:03 I probably don't even remember a dream
06:04 I had a few months ago.
06:05 So I imagine people are forgetting their dreams,
06:07 as you say, it's quite a good way of getting people
06:09 to remember them through art.
06:12 - Absolutely.
06:13 And the thing about dreams is that they are very relative
06:17 to what's happening to you in your life.
06:19 So for artists, we're kind of one step ahead,
06:22 if we're interested in this type of thing,
06:26 that we can express ourselves in our artwork.
06:30 And so you have an ongoing,
06:31 it's a great way to know more about yourself
06:35 and about other people in your environment around you.
06:38 - And 'cause I was just discussing with you
06:40 some of my dreams,
06:41 which I probably won't share with our viewers,
06:42 but how much do dreams actually mean?
06:46 I mean, could you, are some of them random,
06:48 or do they all have some sort of symbolic meaning
06:50 to your life?
06:51 - Well, dreams come across as being chaotic,
06:55 weird, strange.
06:57 Part of that, I think,
06:58 it's the unconscious trying to tap you on the shoulder
07:01 and say, "Pay attention, pay attention."
07:04 If it was just,
07:05 if we were just running through a script
07:06 of the day's events, you wouldn't,
07:09 you could have cared less, really.
07:10 But because they're almost attacking you
07:13 with something strange, you remember it,
07:16 and you then begin to pick apart the pieces
07:19 because all of that is relevant to you,
07:22 and that's how you should look at it.
07:24 - Now, let's go back to the gallery.
07:27 We've seen sort of a range, I guess, people,
07:29 it will all be different in the art
07:31 because everyone's dreams are so different, aren't they?
07:33 So tell me, how did you sort of select the guest artists
07:37 and the ones you wanted to include?
07:39 We're gonna see some pictures popping up now on the screen
07:41 as you talk about it, so.
07:43 - Well, the people, and they're all women,
07:46 who are showing at SWAIL,
07:49 we're part of the Duende group, which I coordinate.
07:52 And I started this, this is our fifth year of showing,
07:55 and these are all members of the group.
07:57 There are 10 artists altogether,
08:00 but we only have eight, two people we're not able to show.
08:03 And I asked them to try and do dreams.
08:07 This one that just went by was a flying.
08:10 And there are, so they've either taken a dream of their own
08:15 or they've gotten it from someone else.
08:18 So it's quite varied.
08:19 We're getting quite a range of dreams
08:23 within lots of different disciplines.
08:26 - And we're seeing so many colors and such
08:28 pop up on the screen as well.
08:29 - That's right, and color's important as well,
08:31 because most people dream in color.
08:33 Very few people actually dream in black and white.
08:36 And I think people think it's the other way around,
08:38 but it's not.
08:40 Color is very usual.
08:42 That is something that, and again,
08:45 it's a way to help you to remember the dream better.
08:50 - So why do some people dream in black and white
08:51 and some dream in color?
08:53 - They don't really know.
08:55 They don't really know, it's just a preference.
08:57 - 'Cause they can see in color.
08:59 They don't see in black and white,
09:00 I imagine, unless they're colorblind.
09:01 - Yeah, it's interesting.
09:02 I suppose it's a bit like a photograph,
09:05 you know, that maybe they see in black and white
09:08 because that, for them, is more straightforward.
09:12 They can clearly see things.
09:15 Or there may be a reason that it's in that particular dream
09:18 that it's black and white as opposed to color.
09:20 - And I wanted to ask you about a bit of a mystery
09:23 that took place with a spider woman painting
09:27 that flew off the wall.
09:28 I mean, how can you explain that?
09:30 Has it got a mind of its own?
09:31 - Well, it's one of my paintings.
09:33 (laughing)
09:34 That's very possibly one of the reasons it flew off the wall
09:39 because I'm very interested in mythology
09:41 and spiritual things.
09:43 And people say to me, you know,
09:47 don't you ever get tired of living in another zone,
09:51 another world?
09:52 (laughing)
09:53 Because I do have a lot of strange things happen to me.
09:56 This happened a week on Monday
09:58 and it was a day that the gallery was closed
10:02 and it happened, we think, sometime during the night.
10:04 The painting literally came off the wall
10:07 and the persons who were in the next morning
10:11 found it on the floor.
10:13 And when I came and had a look at it,
10:15 which was the following day,
10:17 it was even more strange because you would have thought,
10:21 well, maybe the hanging mechanism
10:22 or the mechanism for hanging on the back of the painting
10:26 was funny, but the hanging mechanism was fine.
10:30 But on the back of the painting, the screw had come out.
10:34 - Right.
10:35 Oh, that's really strange.
10:37 - This is what's really weird
10:39 because I had just done that particular painting
10:43 two days before the exhibition opened.
10:45 So it was absolutely fresh and the screws are quite deep.
10:49 And when I tried to put the screw back in the hole,
10:53 it was too tight.
10:54 I would have only gotten it in with a screwdriver.
10:56 - Wants to be free then, it seems.
10:58 - Seems.
10:59 Well, the title of it, it was about Spider Woman.
11:01 - Yeah.
11:02 - And she has a raven on her head
11:05 and the spider web is in her body
11:07 and there are rays coming out,
11:11 which kind of indicate the kind of,
11:12 otherworldliness of the piece.
11:16 So whether she had, I think she just had a mind of her own.
11:19 - Perfect.
11:22 Well, we've run out of time, I'm afraid,
11:23 but just very quickly,
11:24 what time does this exhibition run until?
11:27 - It's on through the 16th, Saturday the 16th,
11:30 which is a Saturday, and it's open from 10 to four.
11:34 - Perfect.
11:35 Well, thank you very much.
11:36 It's been very interesting to speak all about dreams.
11:38 I'm sure people would love to come along.
11:39 So thank you very much.
11:40 - Thank you.
11:41 - Well, as I said, it's time for a break now,
11:44 but coming up, I've been getting crafty
11:45 and I've taken up a new skill.
11:47 Have a look at how I get on.
11:49 Gabriel Morris will also be joining us
11:51 to tell us what's going on in Kent
11:52 in the coming weeks.
11:53 I'll see you in a few minutes.
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15:04 - Hello and welcome back to Made in Kent live on KMTV.
15:11 Now a Tunbridge cafe which hosts weekly coffee mornings
15:14 for anyone and everyone is inviting more people
15:17 to come along.
15:18 Whether you want to take up a new hobby
15:19 or simply meet new people and have a natter.
15:22 Well, I went to one of the mornings
15:24 and even learnt a new skill myself.
15:27 A safe space, a place to chat, learn new hobbies,
15:32 and have a morning coffee.
15:34 But for gorgeous George in Tunbridge,
15:36 it's much more than just a weekly meetup.
15:39 More than three and a half million people in England
15:42 reported feeling lonely between November last year
15:45 and February this year.
15:46 And for those here, combating loneliness is not only vital,
15:50 but pretty close to home.
15:52 - I was poorly during lockdown
15:55 and I got pancreas failure and type 3C diabetes
15:59 and I was very isolated.
16:01 When my friends returned to work,
16:03 I couldn't return to work.
16:05 And I felt really abandoned and alone.
16:08 So I started coming into the shop
16:10 and gradually got talking to other people
16:12 and now we've got a great support network
16:14 and a band of friends.
16:17 - For those who come along to these sessions,
16:18 there's lots to do, whether it's making a brand new bag,
16:21 doing some needle felting,
16:23 or for some who just want to come along to have a chat.
16:25 - Before, obviously this group on a Wednesday
16:27 when we used to pop in for coffee and stuff,
16:29 and it was often like little old ladies on their own
16:32 having a coffee and we'd always have a chat to them.
16:34 It's really nice.
16:35 Yeah, there is quite a few that just come in on their own.
16:37 - I've got girls with special needs,
16:39 so I tend not to make myself go out very often.
16:43 - I had to force her to come today.
16:45 - Karen's very good at making me come
16:47 and I feel better for coming.
16:49 - I'm an only child, okay,
16:51 so I don't have to sit on brothers.
16:53 I live with my nan.
16:54 Love my nan dearly.
16:56 But you do feel quite alone.
16:59 If I get stuck indoors,
17:01 I feel like it's just too much for me,
17:03 so I have to get out and about.
17:05 - And now, what's going on in Kent
17:08 across the next few days and into the weekend?
17:10 Well, our producer Gabriel joins me on the sofa now
17:13 to tell me just that.
17:14 So, Gabriel, what can we expect in the next few days?
17:17 - Well, there's lots going on across the county
17:19 in the coming week.
17:19 I'll come to that in just a second.
17:21 It's great to have you back on the sofa.
17:22 You were away last week.
17:23 - Yeah.
17:24 - But a bit of a busman's holiday.
17:25 You went on holiday to Kent.
17:26 - I know.
17:27 I could not get away from Kent, clearly,
17:29 but it's lovely to be back.
17:30 Yeah, as you said, I couldn't escape Kent, clearly.
17:33 - You saw some sights.
17:33 Tell us, where did you go?
17:35 - So, I went to--
17:36 Well, I stayed in Canberra Sands,
17:37 which isn't quite Kent.
17:38 It's actually in East Sussex,
17:39 but as our viewers might know,
17:41 it does border Kent.
17:42 So, this is Kent's longest church.
17:45 As you can see, it's pretty long.
17:46 That's in Rye, which is just on the outskirts of Kent.
17:51 It's pretty tall as well,
17:52 but it's not quite the tallest church.
17:53 It was about 60 metres long,
17:55 so that was really interesting.
17:55 - It's pretty impressive.
17:56 - It was pretty impressive.
17:57 It was the first time I've ever been to Rye.
17:59 Now, I also went to Dungeness.
18:00 This is the nature reserve there.
18:02 They had, I think off the top of my head,
18:04 600 species of plants and insects.
18:08 That was interesting.
18:09 Also, couldn't go to Dungeness
18:10 without seeing the lighthouses they have for there,
18:13 which is incredible.
18:14 This is the old lighthouse,
18:15 which they actually had to replace with the new one
18:18 because the view of the old one was blocked
18:20 by Dungeness's power station.
18:22 So, yeah, there you go.
18:23 There's your little history trip.
18:25 It was a great holiday.
18:26 - I've been down to Dungeness a number of times
18:28 to report on, but also to visit.
18:30 I'll tell you what, it is a really amazing place.
18:33 Pretty abstract place.
18:35 Lots going on down there
18:36 from the power stations to artists.
18:39 Now, what's going on in Kent this week?
18:41 There's plenty going on.
18:42 We're hoping that the weather will stay nice and warm
18:44 for the weekend.
18:45 It repeats, maybe hopefully a little bit cooler
18:47 than last weekend.
18:48 But on Friday this week,
18:52 Rubber Biscuit at Whitstable Castle.
18:55 Now, they'll be performing a fabulous mix of rhythm
18:58 and blues and soul.
18:59 You can see some pictures on the screen now
19:02 of what you might expect.
19:04 Although that's in a theatre or in a concert venue
19:07 somewhere in the UK,
19:09 they'll be performing at the Whitstable Castle.
19:12 So a little bit of a nice backdrop to that.
19:14 So hopefully there'll be good weather.
19:15 They were established back in 1992
19:17 and the band has worked hard to create a big sound
19:20 to its audiences across Kent and the South East.
19:23 Now, you're thinking the likes of R&B, soul,
19:25 Northern soul, Motown, ska and pop.
19:28 And it is an interactive show
19:30 with audience participation, humour and professionalism.
19:34 They do say.
19:35 Tickets are, you need to put them in advance
19:38 at £20 per person.
19:39 That's at Friday at seven o'clock.
19:41 Interesting.
19:42 Sounds like I'll have to go along to that.
19:44 Now, if music isn't your thing,
19:46 perhaps art and craft might be more of that.
19:49 Now, to keep it local,
19:50 Craft Show features lots of handmade gifts
19:53 from across the South East,
19:54 including lots in Kent.
19:56 That will be taking place this Friday,
20:00 Saturday and Sunday.
20:03 And it will be, they provide,
20:07 they'll be taking place at,
20:09 they'll be keeping the shopping experience,
20:11 which is all the more besides.
20:12 And there'll be featuring local handmade products as well.
20:17 And it's definitely one you don't want to miss there.
20:20 And finally, one of the other ones you won't want to miss
20:23 is the Green Hop Day.
20:24 Now, you can enjoy a pint of deliciously fresh
20:28 green hop ale with live music.
20:30 That will be taking place at the tap,
20:33 at the taproom in Kent.
20:35 It starts at 12.30.
20:38 So you don't want to miss that on Saturday the 16th.
20:42 And the hops come from Sindale Farm.
20:44 So there'll be also Morristonsers music from the Gadzooks,
20:48 food from a local vendor alongside plenty of other festivities.
20:52 Now, I actually went along to a Green Hop Day last year.
20:56 Essentially what green hops are, are fresh hops,
21:00 essentially, which have been freshly picked.
21:02 You can only get them for a few weeks,
21:05 around about a month of the year,
21:07 because they have to be fresh.
21:08 Let's have a look at a report from last year
21:10 where I found out all about green hops.
21:13 These hops are just about ready to be harvested.
21:16 And as picking only takes place over a couple of weeks,
21:19 it means it's nearly time for Green Hop Day.
21:22 But what is that?
21:24 Yeah, so at this time of year, it's the end of the hop harvest.
21:27 So traditionally when everyone used to celebrate
21:31 the end of harvest and picking those hops at the end of the year,
21:34 brewers would be using those freshest hops in their beer
21:37 for us to enjoy in pubs and at beer festivals
21:40 in the next month or so.
21:42 Because they need to be brewed fresh,
21:43 the hop farm has to process them quickly.
21:46 They will go and be hooked onto the hop picking machine
21:49 and then make their way inside,
21:51 where there's hooks in there which kind of act as those hop pickers' hands.
21:55 But essentially, the hop picking machine is designed to take
21:58 as much of that leaf off so that we're left with the cone,
22:01 which is what we want. That's the fruit,
22:03 which has got all the things that we need in it to make the beer.
22:06 To keep the freshness, the hops need to be in the beer within 12 hours.
22:11 So with such a rush, why bother?
22:13 It's the one chance we get as brewers in Kent to brew with the fresh hops.
22:18 And we try and do that as fresh as is possible.
22:21 It's a really exciting time. The rest of the year,
22:23 like everybody else, we brew with dried hops.
22:26 And this has become a thing that has been sort of reinvented
22:29 in the last sort of 10, 15 years and is making a big thing of it in Kent.
22:32 And now the green hops are here at the brewery.
22:34 They're being covered by this liquid called wort.
22:38 It's barley and oat, which have been boiled for a couple of hours this morning.
22:42 And if you taste it, it tastes a bit like morning cereal.
22:47 Quite nice, actually. After being boiled for an hour,
22:52 it's sent to the fermenters, but more ingredients are still needed.
22:57 Once the wort is in here, or what will become the beer,
23:00 we'll then add the yeast through this door here at the front.
23:05 That will go in and then the fermentation will occur.
23:08 Hopefully within about eight days that will be complete
23:11 and then the beer will be ready for packaging into carts.
23:13 After so much effort, how will the beer taste?
23:16 There is an earthiness to it. There is, yeah.
23:21 That's really refreshing. It's super soft.
23:22 It really is. And that is the green hop difference.
23:26 There's a lot of essential oils in that.
23:27 It's very much sort of evoking late summer afternoons, end of harvest in the fields.
23:33 So that's how you get green hops to the keg and it tastes pretty nice too.
23:39 Gabriel Morris for KMTV.
23:42 Seems like it was only yesterday you were there, but that was around a year ago now, wasn't it?
23:45 It was. And this time of year as well is obviously the Green Hop Day
23:48 and that's taking place at the tap room this Saturday.
23:53 So you don't want to miss that from 12.30.
23:55 Just a quick round up of the other events that I said.
23:57 Rubber Biscuit Friday at 7pm at Whitswell Castle
24:00 and a Keep It Local craft show at Corning's Garden Centre.
24:03 Lots going on, Gabriel.
24:05 Lots of other people to enjoy.
24:07 Very exciting, I'm sure. People will be kept busy over the next few weeks.
24:10 Thanks very much, Gabriel.
24:12 Next, from generous donations in Dover to trains off track in Ashford,
24:16 many businesses in Kent are building up their budgets and perfecting their profits.
24:21 Sheldon Dragwich has this week's Business Roundup.
24:28 Hello and welcome to this week's KMTV Business Roundup.
24:32 First tonight and house builders Barrett Homes have given Dover District Council
24:36 more than £200,000.
24:38 It was agreed as part of an ongoing development at Alesham Village.
24:42 The money will be invested into the local economy to improve social services
24:47 and help vulnerable people to improve independence.
24:50 Natalie Perry from Barrett Kent said they'll continue to work with diverse community groups
24:55 across Alesham as well as investing in the surrounding infrastructure.
24:59 Next, an international rail service, Eurostar, have said they want to bring back their services to Kent,
25:05 but they say Brexit and Covid still stand in their way.
25:09 The high-speed service has not had any of its trains pulled into Ashford or Ebbsfleet since lockdown.
25:14 Later, more than 30,000 people petitioned for the services to return to the county.
25:20 Gareth Williams, the firm's general secretary, said they are unable to commit to trains once again
25:25 stopping in Kent due to the after-effects of Brexit and hundreds of millions of pounds of Covid debt.
25:31 Eurostar have confirmed it won't be running services in Kent for the next two years,
25:35 with a review due in 2025.
25:38 Next, an afford dealership in Maidstone has applied to extend its premises.
25:42 Haynes Ford at Ashford Road want to add a new two-storey annex to its main workshop,
25:48 with the first floor housing a new reception area, offices and a call centre.
25:52 But in applying to Maidstone Council, the firm said no extra jobs would be created.
25:57 And finally, architects behind a controversial seafront development in Folkestone
26:02 say they'll refine plans after backlash from residents.
26:05 The criticism came after a new computer-generated image showed the entire seafront undergoing a massive change,
26:12 with flats and homes lining the beach.
26:14 A more recent consultation showed pictures of tar blocks destined for the harbour arm.
26:19 Residents were left horrified as they described the proposed blocks as something out of the Flintstones.
26:24 And that's your business roundup for this week.
26:28 Well, that's all from us here on Made in Kent.
26:30 But if you own an independent business in the county and you'd like to be a guest on our show,
26:34 you can get in touch at madeinkent@kmtv.co.uk.
26:38 I'll be back at the same time next week, six o'clock. I'll see you then.
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