HemingwayDesign

HemingwayDesign is looking for a Communications & Content Lead to join our team.

We’re after someone who can tell great stories, create brilliant content and help bring our work to life across social, digital and events.

You’ll work across , The Classic Car Boot Sale Sale, and .Mkt — helping shape communications for projects that use design, culture and creativity to improve places and people’s lives.

We’re looking for someone who’s:
- Creative and curious
- Obsessed with great content
- Comfortable behind a camera as well as behind a keyboard
- Passionate about sustainability, culture and social impact
- Happy collaborating and getting stuck in

If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Link in bio to find out more and apply.

Deadline 10am Monday 3rd August

It’s tomorrow! 🎉

George Street becomes a stage, canvas, and playground as Centre Stage fills Richmond town centre with live music, theatre, hands-on making, skateboarding, markets, art, and joyful public participation.

🎶 Back to The Belvedere returns to Whittaker Square with DJs , and , alongside a Youth Music Showcase from and

🎭Discover Richmond Myths, join AllStars for drumming and dance workshops, then follow their carnival-inspired procession through the town.

🎨 Make puppets, prints, clay sculpture and instruments from waste with Orchestra of Chaos, Studio Bark’s , and more.

🛹 Skate Street brings free skate sessions, live demos, screen printing and upcycling workshops with and .mkt

🌿 Explore the Eco & Nature Zone with Unit Lab, and Generation, then browse the Independent Richmond Market for designer-makers, sustainable brands, local food, coffee, cocktails and street food.

See the link in bio for the full programme.

Richmond Town Centre Vision 3/3

Richmond is already bringing the Vision to life through quick wins and meanwhile activation. One of the first steps is Centre Stage Richmond – a free multi-arts festival reclaiming George Street and Whittaker Square.

Centre Stage returns for its second year this July. Across the weekend of 17–19 July, Richmond town centre comes alive with live performances. On Saturday 18th - curated and produced by HemingwayDesign - the streets will become a stage, canvas and playground filled with music, theatre, food, art and joyful public participation.

Centre Stage is an example of how the Vision can be tested and experienced in the short term, while longer-term projects are developed.

Find out more about Centre Stage weekend activities via the link in our bio

Richmond Town Centre Vision 2/3

Where the Vision defines long-term ambition, the Activation Plan focuses on what can be done now and next to bring that ambition to life.

It identifies projects that will create more inclusive streets and public spaces, diversify town centre and riverside uses, better serve young people and families, and strengthen Richmond’s role as both a local town centre and a wider destination.

An initial £1.5 million budget has been approved to progress four priority projects:

• Whittaker Square and Avenue – creating a greener, more purposeful public space linking the town centre and riverside.
• George Street – transforming the street into a more pedestrian-friendly leisure and retail destination, addressing air pollution through a reduction in vehicular movement, increasing greenery, and increasing opportunities for social and cultural activity, play, and business spill-out.
• Little Green – delivering a high-quality, nature-sensitive play space in the town centre.
• Wayfinding Strategy – improving connections between the town centre, green spaces, and riverside, while strengthening Richmond’s identity through public art, interpretation and storytelling.

Read the Vision and Activation Plan via the link our bio

HemingwayDesign has been working with the alongside and Urban Movement, to develop a Vision for Richmond town centre.

Richmond’s challenge isn’t its reputation. Known for its beautiful riverside, green spaces, and rich history, it already has a strong identity. The opportunity now is to broaden perceptions, showcase a more diverse offer, attract new audiences, support future generations, and respond to climate and environmental challenges.

The Richmond Town Centre Vision sets out what the town can become over the next 5, 10 and 15+ years, anchored by three Place-shaping Pillars:

-Global City Energy Meets Market Town Charm
-Space to Breathe: Escapism, Exploration & Enrichment
-Natural Leaders: Champions of Environmental Action & Social Value

Together, these pillars provide a framework for future investment, decision-making and change in Richmond town centre.

Read the Vision in full via the link our bio.

All photography: Robert Hills

The celebrations at this weekend’s don’t stop when the sun goes down. Saturday evening’s programme hosts a range of musical activations, including brand new content, for all to enjoy. Sun-downer events include:
 
* Late-night glamour with cabaret at East Point Pavilion; a First Light first.
* The First Light After Party with at The Venue, Claremont Pier.
* Intimate soul and jazz with music at The Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club.
* Moonlit Soundscapes with violinist and Bosch (featuring Stevie Wishart), a quartet playing instruments never combined before; at St Peter & St John Church.
* Intergalactic Get Down, First Light’s ever-popular Silent Disco

See you on the beach tomorrow!

The celebrations at this weekend’s don’t stop when the sun goes down. Saturday evening’s programme hosts a range of musical activations, including brand new content, for all to enjoy. Sun-downer events include:
 
* Late-night glamour with cabaret at East Point Pavilion; a First Light first.
* The First Light After Party with Jamz Supernova at The Venue, Claremont Pier.
* Intimate soul and jazz with Polly Gibbons at The Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club.
* Moonlit Soundscapes with violinist Harriet McKenzie and Bosch (featuring Stevie Wishart), a quartet playing instruments never combined before; at St Peter & St John Church.
* Intergalactic Get Down, First Light’s ever-popular Silent Disco

See you on the beach tomorrow!

returns THIS WEEKEND to the UK’s most easterly point with a round the clock  bold mix of music, arts and workshops.
Across the two-day event (20 & 21 June), 24 stages and venues on and around South Beach, Lowestoft host an eclectic line-up.

Highlights include:

·       The Sunlight Stage, with global artists from BBC Radio 6’s Jamz Supernova to folk singer Seth Lakeman.
·       The First Word Stage, bringing spoken word and comedy to the shoreline
·       The Talks and Interstellar Ideas tent, with panelists including ’s Patrick Grant.
·       Family workshops in the MoonDance and Cosmic Pirates tents; Lindy Hop, Funk Social Dances and Hip Hop from Grounded Movement, plus wellbeing with Soul Space.
·       Vertical Space, a new zone for young people with drop-in creativity, DJ sessions, gaming, Make Your Own Merch and Mussel Beach sports.

Head to ’s page for the full lineup!

, a festival HemingwayDesign co-founded  returns to Lowestoft THIS WEEKEND, on 20th & 21st June.  

This  free multi-arts beach & beach front festival that, as the sun rises, celebrates the UK’s ‘First Light’ of the day as it touches the waters edge of Britain’s most easterly town, Lowestoft.

Join us for a weekend of live performances, dancing , workshops, community projects, independent makers and traders, science, sport and summer solstice celebrations.

Set across the golden sands, promenade and Victorian Kensington Gardens of South Beach, the festival is free, unticketed and open to all.

As we approach the weekend, we’re reflecting on the last one, where filled MediaCity and Salford Quays with over 200 free activities. From sports and gardening to creative workshops, play, talks, live music, performance, DJs, dancing, food, drink, and shopping, we celebrated all the ways we enjoy our free time in the place where the weekend was invented.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to get hands-on, observe, to make and shake. And a big thanks to the key partners who help us make it happen: , , , , our brilliant workshop facilitators and content partners, volunteers, and traders - without whom this event just simply wouldn’t be able to happen.

We’re looking forward to doing it all again next June!