The Essex Steamettes bring coding, science and technology to a wide range of creative sectors. They learn together, create projects, design and run workshops, invite adult role models to talk to them, enter projects into competitions, give interviews, and inspire girls and others to get involved. They have collaborated with a large number of organisations such as Southend Raspberry Jam, Essex Book Festival, British Science Festival, Mercury Digital Festival, Chelmsford Community Radio, Essex and Southend Libraries, Chelmsford Civic Society, Essex 2020, Open UK, Southend Connected Arts Festival, Coolest Projects, Stand Up for Diversity, Heritage Open Days, Anglia Ruskin University, The Gene Radio Show (girl guiding), Chelmsford Light Festival, Snapping the Stiletto, Thanet Tech, Raspberry Pint, Kids Invent Stuff, Manifesto for Essex and many other public engagement activities. They have worked with international artist Lily Hunter Green over a number of years on Sci Art projects based around saving bees: coding drone acrobatics, 3D design, Pepper’s ghost, light spectrum, virus simulations and physical games. They were Young Researchers for Southend LCEP’s “99 by 19” Meet an Artist activity for Lily’s She Heals project. They have coded lots of games, animations, and a musical interactive glove which used movement, gestures and sound. Check out this Youtube playlist of their 90+ Youtube videos they made:

Bringing together people interested in making and building with creative tech eg. coding, electronics, animatronics, robotics, design, 3D printing, virtual reality / augmented reality / mixed reality, web design, fashion, music, games design, animation, dance, retro computing and anything else you might be interested in.

Hi! I’m Gabi, and I’ve just started running creative workshops under the name Apple Tree Attic, locally in Southend. I create relaxed, beginner-friendly sessions for anyone who wants to try something new, get creative, or meet like-minded people nearby. I’ve been teaching art and photography in London, for over 12 years, (and ceramics more recently), working with incredible organisations, charities, councils and institutions. And with people of all ages, from 4 to 93! and I have lots of experience (over 10 years), supporting SEND learners too.

Web Developer

Hey there, I’m Ted! I’m a second-year animation student studying BA Animation at the University of the Arts London. I predominantly work in 2D digital character animation, but I have a strong passion for mixed media and stop-motion animation, and I take any chance I can get to combine the two. I also have a strong understanding of video editing, merchandise creation, and illustration!

I am an educator and printmaker, specialising in linocut printmaking.

Artist-run studios and dark room. theblokhouse is an artist-run studio and project space in Southend on Sea founded by local Fine Art graduates. We aim to provide affordable studio space and facilities to creative graduates and emerging artists in a supportive environment which nurtures individual and collaborative practice across all disciplines. We prioritise those who have faced physical, mental and financial barriers to accessing art studios.

I’m a creative designer with an extensive background in using impactful design to drive engagement and make messages stick.

Adrian Green’s work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in England and abroad, as well as three collections, Chorus and Coda, All That Jazz and Other Poems, and New Blues and Other Poems, from the Littoral Press. He co-edited an anthology, From the City to the Saltings: Poems from Essex, for the Essex Poetry Festival. A former trustee of The Jazz Centre(UK), he has had a long association with the Essex Poetry Festival, Open University Poets, and the Southend Poetry Group, for which his poems have appeared in each of their annual anthologies, Southend Poetry, over the past 42 years.