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Essex Book Festival is teaming up with internationally acclaimed arts organisation, Kinetika, for its Radical Procession from St Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church, a key player in the Siege of Colchester (1648), to University of Essex, famed for its foundational radical innovation in the 1960s.

Building on the festival's ongoing series of Radical Walks in Essex, the Procession will include 500 pennants created as part of Beach of Dreams 2021 – an epic 500-mile journey which discovered hidden gems of the East Coast. This event will mark the launch of Beach of Dreams 2025 – an invitation to walk together along the coastline of the Uk and Ireland in a collective moment of reflection and climate action in the month of May 2025.

Part of our This Land: Launch Day events on Saturday 1st June at University of Essex. Join us for a day of talks, performances, debates, walks and workshops to mark the 25th Edition of Essex Book Festival and the 60th Anniversary of University of Essex.