A Sound Pilgrimage to Faversham’s Hidden Histories - Destination #6 in the This Place Meant series arrives at The Hot Tin for a unique immersive sound experience led by Sound Emergence, featuring guest artist Maureen Wolloshin. Set within Faversham’s much-loved grassroots arts venue, this special event weaves together heritage, improvisation and contemplative listening in a live sound bath performance inspired by the town’s medieval anchoresses.
Part of This Place Meant: An Immersive Sound Pilgrimage
📍 The Hot Tin
📅 Sunday 12 April
🕛 12:00pm – 3:00pm (GMT+1)
Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/this-place-meant-an-immersive-sound-pilgrimage-4792063
The Hot Tin is a grassroots live music and arts venue in Faversham, set inside 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.
Maureen Wolloshin is an oboist, improviser, composer and feministing academic whose practice centres on experimental “making with” — co-creating with people, objects and locations.
She performs with Free Women, Noisy Women, London Improvisers Orchestra and Free Range Orchestra, and collaborates in duets with Stevie Wishart and Khabat Abas. Her research and performance work has been presented across Europe.
Maureen has a longstanding interest in the now largely forgotten sonic world of the anchoress. From 1464 for at least 100 years, an anchoress lived in a cell attached to Faversham’s parish church, St Mary of Charity Church. Pilgrims would have visited to pray, commune and make offerings.
In 1885, long after the anchoresses were gone, an iron chapel — today’s Hot Tin — was erected to expand the church’s capacity.
Inspired by this layered history, Maureen will create a live sound work imagining and echoing the sonic world the anchoresses may have experienced. The piece will bring together oboe, voices, people, field recordings taken outside the original church window, and the evolving organs and bellows of The Hot Tin itself.
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.
Exploring sound as a form of contemplation, deep listening and collective gathering, they work across art, music and history to create meaningful shared experiences.
Follow Sound Emergence on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/soundemergence/
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Drinks, home-cooked food and social time
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Live immersive sound performance (60 minutes)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Talk and Q&A with the artists (bar open)
🎟 Suggested contribution: £5 – £15 per person
Please contribute according to your financial circumstances. Paying the upper tier helps support the project and enables lower-cost access for others.
🎫 Full Series Ticket – £25
Attend as many events as you wish across the This Place Meant programme.
👉 Book tickets and find out more:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/this-place-meant-an-immersive-sound-pilgrimage-4792063
Please book a ticket for every person in your party, including children.
Children are welcome.
Please note the sound bath lasts 60 minutes and may not be suitable for very young children. All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Hot, home-cooked food and drinks will be available from 12:00pm (not included in ticket price).
No dedicated on-site parking. Visitors are advised to use nearby town car parks or adjacent streets and walk a short distance.
Wheelchair accessible.
Bus stops are located directly outside the venue.
Walkable from Faversham Train Station.
Visitor information: https://www.routestock.org/visiting
This Place Meant: An Immersive Sound Pilgrimage is a multi-venue series exploring Kent’s heritage through contemplative sound and place-based performance.
For tickets and details of other venues in the series, visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/this-place-meant-an-immersive-sound-pilgrimage-4792063
A reflective afternoon of history, sound and shared listening in one of Faversham’s most characterful venues.
£5 - £27.80 On Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/this-place-meant-an-immersive-sound-pilgrimage-4792063
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This Place Meant - destination #6 -Hot Tin, Faversham
The Hot Tin Whitstable Road Faversham , Kent
ME13 8BD
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