This Place Meant - destination #6 -Hot Tin, Faversham

About the The Hot Tin

The Hot Tin is a grassroots live music and arts venue in Faversham, set within a restored Victorian corrugated iron “tin” church on Whitstable Road. Opened in 2018, it was created as a community-focused social hub, offering an intimate and informal setting that champions local creatives alongside global artists.

The venue is home to Routestock CIC, founded by Romana Bellinger and Mike Eden, an organisation dedicated to bringing communities together through art and music.

Bio

Maureen is an oboist, improviser, composer and feministing academic. Her work is an experimental ‘making with’– a co-creating with others, objects and locations.

She plays with Free Women, Noisy Women, London Improvisers Orchestra and Free Range Orchestra, duets with Stevie Wishart and Khabat Abas and has presented her research across Europe.

This Project

Maureen has longstanding interest in the now forgotten sonic world of the anchoress. From 1464 for at least 100 years there was an anchoress living in a cell attached to Faversham’s parish church, St Mary of Charity. Pilgrims would have visited the anchoresses to pray, commune, and make offerings. In 1885 the church was thriving, the anchoresses were long gone, and a iron chapel (our Hot Tin) was erected to increase the church’s capacity.

Inspred by this history, Maureen will create a sound piece which imagines and echoes the sonic world the anchoresses would have experienced, and bring it to life through her instruments, people, field recordings taken outside the original church window and, the evolving organs and bellows of The Hot Tin.

Sound Emergence is a contemplative sound practice led by André Braga-Verissimo and Sasha Maye Bruce. Their work brings together sound, heritage and community to create immersive listening experiences across Kent and beyond. They explore sound as a form of contemplation, deep listening, and collective gathering, working across art, music and history.

14-04-26

● 12pm-1pm – Drinks, home cooked food and social

● 1pm - 2pm -Live sound performance

● 2pm- 3pm –talk and Q&A with the artists (bar open)

This event will be seated due to limited space. Just dress comfortably

Hot, home cooked food and drinks will be available at the bar from 12pm (not included with the booking)

Please contribute according to your financial circumstances. Paying the upper tier supports the project and helps us offer lower-cost access.

Suggested contribution: £5 – £15 per place. Please book a ticket for every person in your party, including children.

A FULL SERIES ticket for This Place Meant is available for £25, allowing attendance at as many events as you wish.

Children are welcome.

The sound bath will last 60 minute, so It may not be suitable for very young children. All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

. There’s no dedicated car park right at The Hot Tin site itself, so most visitors park in nearby town car parks or on adjacent streets and walk a short distance. For 'getting there' - https://www.routestock.org/visiting

. Wheel chair accessible

If you’re coming by public transport, bus stops directly outside the venue. The venue is also walkable from Faversham Train Station.

Andre & Sasha Sound Emergence, part of And Gather CIC

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soundemergence/

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