Public Art Georges House Gallery Celebratory Arts Training & Education The Giants Project
Find Your Talent - Cultural Audit

Strange Cargo has secured a very exciting commission to audit Shepway children’s cultural activity. Our team have designed an fully accessible system of questions which our artists will be presenting personally to each of the 14,000 school children in the district in the lead up to Christmas.

The initiative is part of Find Your Talent, a government programme...

Scriptwriters' Workshop at Georges House
ARE YOU a screenwriter, filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director? Investing in a movie? Prepping an outline, a treatment, a short or a movie script? How do you effectively write, checklist and validate your script? How do you ensure your complex dramatic elements that comprise your fully functional screen story are in place and coherent? How do you craft and certify the standards of your script investment? Whether you are about to write, in the process of writing or have completed your movie script, Scriptwrite is for screenstories at varying levels of development and completion.

To Welcome in the Cultural Olympiad the Doors Open at Strange Cargo's New Workshop
The doors of the Peene Barn were opened to the public for the first over the Light Up Weekend for the launch of the Cultural Olympiad.

Film at the Barn Celebrates the Beginning of the Cultural Olympiad
On Saturday 27th September to celebrate the beginning of the Cultural Olympiad and bring the regions valuable film archive to the fore, Strange Cargo is opening the doors of their beautiful new workshop in the wonderful surroundings of Peene Barn, for a special afternoon film event.

Canterbury Belle is on the Move
Belle, the beautiful Canterbury Giant is off to visit the City that gave us the Beatles, Steven Gerrard, and Brookside. Belle has accepted an invitation to take part in the wonderful celebrations planned as part off Liverpool’s 2008 European Capital of Culture. She will be the special representative for Canterbury and will join groups from cities from across the UK in a massive celebration of culture. Belle will be packing her bags for the drive up the M1 along with the three other Canterbury District Giants, Lily from Herne Bay, Captain Sam from Whitstable, and Torrent from Littlebourne.

Charivari Day 2008
The sun shone as thousands of cheering spectators lined the streets of the town to watch the 12th Charivari Day parade, as the vibrant 700 strong carnival procession made its colourful and raucous way from the Harbour, up The Old High Street, through the precinct and onto The Leas, Folkestone’s splendid promenade.


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Charivari Day poster 2008
Poster for the exciting annual Charivari Day carnival in Folkestone. This year's theme is Movements in Art.

The Liverpool Giant
Poster outlining all the exciting events and opportunities surrounding the five-week Strange Cargo residency in Liverpool.

Strange Cargo 2007 Annual
Strange Cargo's annual publication reviewing the projects the company worked on in 2006 and looking to what's happening in 2007/8


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