The Last Days of Sail

26th July 2025

Hold Creative Spaces

A musical, sound art and sculptural installation event featuring Benjin, Stray Wool and David Nettleingham at HOLD Creative Spaces in Ramsgate

7pm - 9.30pm

Performance times: 7.15pm - 7.45pm Stray Wool / 8pm - 9.15pm benjin

An evening of musical performance and storytelling.

benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, artist, curator, academic and storyteller who has toured and recorded with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 20 years. His solo work combines guitar, cello, harp, clarinet, vocals, nyckelharpa, field recordings and found sounds. Drawing upon benjin’s experiences of a lifetime working on the East Coast and the Thames Estuary, these compositions combine traditional folk song forms with dense free form jazz improvisations, minimalist classical music and sound collages.

Stray Wool creates and combines threads of noise, tape loops, and samples - weaving music and field recordings into layered soundscapes that illuminate the world around us. His work stems from a love of imperfections, repetition, and stillness; on the verge of breaking but not quite.

David Nettleingham is a visual artist and provides the backdrop: a series of sculptural works inspired by the working heritage of the Kent coast, and exploring the politics and practice of ‘heritage’: what we choose to preserve, when we choose to preserve it, and why we make that choice at all.

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£10

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Address

The Last Days of Sail HOLD Creative Spaces, Penstone House, Albert Street, Ramsgate
CT11 9HD

Contact

hello@holdcreativespaces.co.uk 07865 339234

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