Co-ordinating a community: Maureen Has Talent

It’s a well known fact that if you want something done, you ask a busy person. And one of those busy persons, as far as Medway is concerned, is Maureen Tong Ralphs. By day, she’s the Assistant Centre Manager at the Joiners Shop at Basepoint, Chatham. By night and at...

Combing the fringes of Medway and Swale

Jo Roberts and Steve Turner first met at Victoria railway station a dozen or so years ago. They’d both been commissioned by the Turner Contemporary and seen a connection in each other’s work that warranted meeting up for a coffee. It was to be another ten years before...

Manny’s Medway music odyssey

Manny Esguerra-Rossiter loves music. So much so that when the owners of the Chatham music shop he worked in retired, he decided to take it on. Thus Sound and Image is now Manny’s Music Shop, with a major refit underway. The newly formed business between him and...

Nominations Open for Medway Culture and Design Awards 2012

Medway Council are once again looking to celebrate excellence in the arts, culture, design and heritage of Medway. Created to recognise groups and individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the area’s cultural vitality, the awards aim to...