Below is the tentative schedule for KArtsCon2025. Times and activities may be changed in the final line-up due to unforeseen exigencies.
All main events will take place in The Medway School of Arts campus on the Historic Dockyard Chatham.
TUESDAY – 15 July 2025 |
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Medway School of Arts (Dockyard Campus) |
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18:00 |
KArtsCon Schools Art Competition Exhibition and Prize-Giving Event | |
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19:30 |
KArtsCon Schools Art exhibition ends. | |
WEDNESDAY – 16 July 2025 |
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Medway School of Arts (Dockyard Campus) |
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08:30 |
Conference Registration and Networking |
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09:00 |
Official Welcome – Dr Julian Ng and Dr David Stokes |
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09:10 |
Bryan Hawkins – A Village at the Centre of the Universe |
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09:40 |
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10:10 |
Urs Hauenstein – The Process of Art |
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10:40 |
Break (10 mins) |
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10:50 |
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11:20 |
WORKSHOP: Tamsin Fox-Davies – YOUR Art to Be: Transforming Creativity into Sustainable Success |
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12:20 |
Day 1 Group Photograph and Lunch (80 minutes) |
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13:40 |
Cas Holmes – A Traveller Stilled: New Ways to Engage Creativity |
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14:10 |
Pamela Hatton: Art: To Be or Not to Be? Is that the Question |
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14:40 |
Break (10 mins) |
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15:00 |
Short Film Festival |
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16:50 |
Day 1 Closing Notes; Certificate Presentation |
THURSDAY – 17 July 2025 |
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Time |
Medway School of Arts (Dockyard Campus) |
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08:30 |
Conference Registration and Networking |
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09:00 |
Official Welcome – Dr Julian Ng and Dr David Stokes |
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09:10 |
Bill Lewis – Wordsmithing |
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09:40 |
Mădălina Neagoe – The Art to be Yourself: Students in Search of an Identity |
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10:10 |
David Stokes – MIAHAI: A Universal Tool for Creative Social Proscribing |
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10:40 |
Break (10 mins) |
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10:50 |
Jasmine Ng – Visualisation Techniques to Reimagine a Better Future |
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11:20 |
Ellen Brown – Zandra Rhodes’ Colourful Heritage |
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11:50 |
Day 2 Group Photograph and Lunch (90 minutes) |
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13:20 |
Simon Gregory Partridge – Art to Be: An Exegesis |
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13:50 |
Stella Bolaki & Lindsey Zelvin – Ongoing Conversations: Digital Blind Dates |
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14:20 |
WORKSHOP: Elizabeth Sillo – The Musical Brain Development and Creativity (Kodály Approach) |
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15:20 |
Break (10 mins) |
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15:40 |
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17:00 |
Day 2 Close; Certificate Presentation |
FRIDAY – 18 July 2025 |
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Time |
Medway School of Arts (Dockyard Campus) |
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08:30 |
Conference Registration and Networking |
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09:00 |
Official Welcome – Dr Julian Ng and Dr David Stokes |
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09:10 |
Krisilda Kastrati & Ermal Kovaci – Future Forms: The Art Yet to Be |
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09:40 |
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10:40 |
Break (10 mins) |
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10:50 |
WORKSHOP: Jamila Zanna Muhammad – The Power of Herbs in Contemporary Art: Cultural Healing Wisdom |
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11:50 |
DEMO: Madoka Davis – The Art of Belonging: How Food Bridges Cultures and Identities |
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12:40 |
Day 3 Group Photo and Lunch (80 mins) |
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14:00 |
Dallendyshe Metalia, Elva Tobli and Mentor Kovaci – The Importance of Integrating Art in Schools |
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14:30 |
WORKSHOP: Akiko: Yoga and Art |
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15:30 |
Break (10 mins) |
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15:40 |
WORKSHOP: Great K Minor – Not the Instrument, but the Mindset |
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16:45 |
KArtsCon 2025 End Notes; Certificate Presentation |