David Stokes Halpern Foundation CEO
@dstokes-halpernceo.bsky.social
Chief Executive Officer of the Halpern Charitable Foundation and Nucleus Arts.
Trustee MVA
Trustee Medway Sculpture Trust
Director Medway Pride
Director Kent International Arts Conference
Director Creative Medway
www.nucleusarts.com
He/Him
Trustee MVA
Trustee Medway Sculpture Trust
Director Medway Pride
Director Kent International Arts Conference
Director Creative Medway
www.nucleusarts.com
He/Him
LAST CHANCE - SUBMISSIONS FOR WINTER OPEN CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
All disciplines considered, every artist included
The Winter Open runs across The Halpern Gallery & Halpern Pop, from 28/11- 23/12
The full details at:
Www.nucleusarts.com/winteropencall #OpenCall #WinterExhibition #Medway
All disciplines considered, every artist included
The Winter Open runs across The Halpern Gallery & Halpern Pop, from 28/11- 23/12
The full details at:
Www.nucleusarts.com/winteropencall #OpenCall #WinterExhibition #Medway
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
LAST CHANCE - SUBMISSIONS FOR WINTER OPEN CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
All disciplines considered, every artist included
The Winter Open runs across The Halpern Gallery & Halpern Pop, from 28/11- 23/12
The full details at:
Www.nucleusarts.com/winteropencall #OpenCall #WinterExhibition #Medway
All disciplines considered, every artist included
The Winter Open runs across The Halpern Gallery & Halpern Pop, from 28/11- 23/12
The full details at:
Www.nucleusarts.com/winteropencall #OpenCall #WinterExhibition #Medway
This December we want your 2025-in-3 words. Get creative with it in 3 words.
Your chosen words could be reflective, funny, sweet or poignant - please fill in this Google form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Deadline is 25/11/25 & on display in @medwayartbox 26/11 -6/1
#creativewriting #Medway
Your chosen words could be reflective, funny, sweet or poignant - please fill in this Google form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Deadline is 25/11/25 & on display in @medwayartbox 26/11 -6/1
#creativewriting #Medway
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This December we want your 2025-in-3 words. Get creative with it in 3 words.
Your chosen words could be reflective, funny, sweet or poignant - please fill in this Google form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Deadline is 25/11/25 & on display in @medwayartbox 26/11 -6/1
#creativewriting #Medway
Your chosen words could be reflective, funny, sweet or poignant - please fill in this Google form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Deadline is 25/11/25 & on display in @medwayartbox 26/11 -6/1
#creativewriting #Medway
Lovely to see #Chatham come out to celebrate #RemembranceSunday in our beautiful new paddock. Great to see all the uniformed groups #ProudToBeMedway #Medway
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Lovely to see #Chatham come out to celebrate #RemembranceSunday in our beautiful new paddock. Great to see all the uniformed groups #ProudToBeMedway #Medway
#RemembranceSunday
Images from the Threads of Remembrance installation by @nucleusarts.bsky.social at Historic Dockyard Chatham.
More than 20 poppies, created by volunteers from Medway & beyond
#threadsofremembrance #medway #armisticeday #remembrance #hmscavalier
Photo credit: Oliver Dixon
Images from the Threads of Remembrance installation by @nucleusarts.bsky.social at Historic Dockyard Chatham.
More than 20 poppies, created by volunteers from Medway & beyond
#threadsofremembrance #medway #armisticeday #remembrance #hmscavalier
Photo credit: Oliver Dixon
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#RemembranceSunday
Images from the Threads of Remembrance installation by @nucleusarts.bsky.social at Historic Dockyard Chatham.
More than 20 poppies, created by volunteers from Medway & beyond
#threadsofremembrance #medway #armisticeday #remembrance #hmscavalier
Photo credit: Oliver Dixon
Images from the Threads of Remembrance installation by @nucleusarts.bsky.social at Historic Dockyard Chatham.
More than 20 poppies, created by volunteers from Medway & beyond
#threadsofremembrance #medway #armisticeday #remembrance #hmscavalier
Photo credit: Oliver Dixon
What a fantastic afternoon at the #ABetterMedway awards. We were honoured to win the Outstanding Contribution to Adult Mental Health award for our work in Luton and Brompton, & receive our Gold Healthy Workplace award too.
Thank you #Medway Public Health! Congrats to all the other winners too!
Thank you #Medway Public Health! Congrats to all the other winners too!
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What a fantastic afternoon at the #ABetterMedway awards. We were honoured to win the Outstanding Contribution to Adult Mental Health award for our work in Luton and Brompton, & receive our Gold Healthy Workplace award too.
Thank you #Medway Public Health! Congrats to all the other winners too!
Thank you #Medway Public Health! Congrats to all the other winners too!
Well yesterday was a fun and varied day! Started of by playing #Chatham's Chinese New Year Festival, then working with partners planning a #Medway Fringe Festival. Then off to the Council Meeting to receive our Mayor's charity check, then Trafalgar day meal at #Chatham Historic Dockyard
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Well yesterday was a fun and varied day! Started of by playing #Chatham's Chinese New Year Festival, then working with partners planning a #Medway Fringe Festival. Then off to the Council Meeting to receive our Mayor's charity check, then Trafalgar day meal at #Chatham Historic Dockyard
Medway Fun Palace is tomorrow. Come and play!
It is FREE!!
Nucleus Arts along with all the other local organisations involved can't wait to welcome you. See you there!
#medwaycommunity#freeevent#artandscience
It is FREE!!
Nucleus Arts along with all the other local organisations involved can't wait to welcome you. See you there!
#medwaycommunity#freeevent#artandscience
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Medway Fun Palace is tomorrow. Come and play!
It is FREE!!
Nucleus Arts along with all the other local organisations involved can't wait to welcome you. See you there!
#medwaycommunity#freeevent#artandscience
It is FREE!!
Nucleus Arts along with all the other local organisations involved can't wait to welcome you. See you there!
#medwaycommunity#freeevent#artandscience
If you love #Medway history, check out "Medway 77", now on in the @halperngallery.bsky.social in #Chatham until Oct 1st. This free show is a collection of Photographs from Medway taken in 1977, showcasing normal everyday life.
#SocialHistory #Photography #Art
#SocialHistory #Photography #Art
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
If you love #Medway history, check out "Medway 77", now on in the @halperngallery.bsky.social in #Chatham until Oct 1st. This free show is a collection of Photographs from Medway taken in 1977, showcasing normal everyday life.
#SocialHistory #Photography #Art
#SocialHistory #Photography #Art
A poignant day. Proud that @nucleusarts.bsky.social is supporting the #BatonOfHope as it travels through #Medway, but wishing it wasn't needed.
Well done to everyone involved, and check out the installations in both the @halpernpop.bsky.social & #Medway #ArtBox #Rochester
#SuicidePreventionMonth
Well done to everyone involved, and check out the installations in both the @halpernpop.bsky.social & #Medway #ArtBox #Rochester
#SuicidePreventionMonth
September 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A poignant day. Proud that @nucleusarts.bsky.social is supporting the #BatonOfHope as it travels through #Medway, but wishing it wasn't needed.
Well done to everyone involved, and check out the installations in both the @halpernpop.bsky.social & #Medway #ArtBox #Rochester
#SuicidePreventionMonth
Well done to everyone involved, and check out the installations in both the @halpernpop.bsky.social & #Medway #ArtBox #Rochester
#SuicidePreventionMonth
So proud of this amazing project between @nucleusarts.bsky.social and #ChathamHistoricDockyard supported by #MedwayCouncil
We had over 20,000 poppies made by amazing people from all over the UK.
Sent more here www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #LestWeForget #Poppies
We had over 20,000 poppies made by amazing people from all over the UK.
Sent more here www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #LestWeForget #Poppies
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So proud of this amazing project between @nucleusarts.bsky.social and #ChathamHistoricDockyard supported by #MedwayCouncil
We had over 20,000 poppies made by amazing people from all over the UK.
Sent more here www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #LestWeForget #Poppies
We had over 20,000 poppies made by amazing people from all over the UK.
Sent more here www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #LestWeForget #Poppies
Brilliant to see the threading of the poppies underway for #ThreadsOfRemembrance our project with Chatham Historic Dockyard and Medway Council to create 11000 handcrafted poppies to honour the 11000 lost on Destroyers during WW2
#Medway #ChathamDockyard #Chatham
www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #ChathamDockyard #Chatham
www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
September 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Brilliant to see the threading of the poppies underway for #ThreadsOfRemembrance our project with Chatham Historic Dockyard and Medway Council to create 11000 handcrafted poppies to honour the 11000 lost on Destroyers during WW2
#Medway #ChathamDockyard #Chatham
www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
#Medway #ChathamDockyard #Chatham
www.nucleusarts.com/threads-of-r...
Coming to Café Nucleus Fest at Fort Borstal today? Make sure you pop over and say hi to the @nucleusarts.bsky.social team.
#Medway #Festival #FoodAndDrink
#Medway #Festival #FoodAndDrink
September 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Coming to Café Nucleus Fest at Fort Borstal today? Make sure you pop over and say hi to the @nucleusarts.bsky.social team.
#Medway #Festival #FoodAndDrink
#Medway #Festival #FoodAndDrink
Loads of amazing, #free #culture in #Medway. You've got the Short bothers float plane at #Rochester Cathedral, #SuperSaturday in #Chatham and #SticksNStones up on the university campus (not been up there yet)
August 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Loads of amazing, #free #culture in #Medway. You've got the Short bothers float plane at #Rochester Cathedral, #SuperSaturday in #Chatham and #SticksNStones up on the university campus (not been up there yet)
Proud of my amazing team, volunteers & trustees. Together we've been awarded the Workplace Wellbeing Gold award
Thanks too, to #Medway Council for their support. The programme is free, and you can find more information here www.medway.gov.uk/healthyworkp...
Thanks too, to #Medway Council for their support. The programme is free, and you can find more information here www.medway.gov.uk/healthyworkp...
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Proud of my amazing team, volunteers & trustees. Together we've been awarded the Workplace Wellbeing Gold award
Thanks too, to #Medway Council for their support. The programme is free, and you can find more information here www.medway.gov.uk/healthyworkp...
Thanks too, to #Medway Council for their support. The programme is free, and you can find more information here www.medway.gov.uk/healthyworkp...
Well that's #MedwayPride done. What a day. Thank you #Rochester and the whole Medway Pride CIC team. And a big thank you to #RochesterCathedral for the lights. What better symbol of an inclusive, diverse #Medway than that
August 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Well that's #MedwayPride done. What a day. Thank you #Rochester and the whole Medway Pride CIC team. And a big thank you to #RochesterCathedral for the lights. What better symbol of an inclusive, diverse #Medway than that
So many incredible acts at #MedwayPride. Currently the awesome Twist and Pulse #Medway
August 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So many incredible acts at #MedwayPride. Currently the awesome Twist and Pulse #Medway
August 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Proud to be in #Rochester helping set up for #MedwayPride. Huge thanks to everyone here. These events take a huge amount of organising, planning and hard work, and it's all done by unpaid volunteers, and brilliant partners & sponsors #Medway
August 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Proud to be in #Rochester helping set up for #MedwayPride. Huge thanks to everyone here. These events take a huge amount of organising, planning and hard work, and it's all done by unpaid volunteers, and brilliant partners & sponsors #Medway
A great start to #MedwayPrideFringe with the "Where do we go" Question Time event, plus other incredible events across #Medway . Huge thanks to our amazing panel. Check out www.facebook.com/theoldhighst/ for more info.
August 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A great start to #MedwayPrideFringe with the "Where do we go" Question Time event, plus other incredible events across #Medway . Huge thanks to our amazing panel. Check out www.facebook.com/theoldhighst/ for more info.
In our #Rochester #ArtBox ‘Call the Ships to Port!’
Part of our friends Sun Pier House’s 300 Steps to the River, a vibrant new arts programme reconnecting Chatham’s town centre with the River Medway through creativity, community and celebration.
#rivermedway #medwaytowns #ChathamKent #Medway
Part of our friends Sun Pier House’s 300 Steps to the River, a vibrant new arts programme reconnecting Chatham’s town centre with the River Medway through creativity, community and celebration.
#rivermedway #medwaytowns #ChathamKent #Medway
August 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In our #Rochester #ArtBox ‘Call the Ships to Port!’
Part of our friends Sun Pier House’s 300 Steps to the River, a vibrant new arts programme reconnecting Chatham’s town centre with the River Medway through creativity, community and celebration.
#rivermedway #medwaytowns #ChathamKent #Medway
Part of our friends Sun Pier House’s 300 Steps to the River, a vibrant new arts programme reconnecting Chatham’s town centre with the River Medway through creativity, community and celebration.
#rivermedway #medwaytowns #ChathamKent #Medway
Well that's a wrap up #kartscon25! What an awesome event. From architecture, to poetry, Japanese Cookery, Kit Marlowe, Albanian legends and yoga to Music. If you're a creative don't miss out on this amazing event next year #Medway
July 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Well that's a wrap up #kartscon25! What an awesome event. From architecture, to poetry, Japanese Cookery, Kit Marlowe, Albanian legends and yoga to Music. If you're a creative don't miss out on this amazing event next year #Medway
Another brilliant day at #kartscon25 in #Medway. Such an amazing mix, from poetry, to neuroscience, via opera, AR, and so much more. Don't miss day 3 www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Another brilliant day at #kartscon25 in #Medway. Such an amazing mix, from poetry, to neuroscience, via opera, AR, and so much more. Don't miss day 3 www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
Brilliant first day at #kartscon25 here in #Medway HUGE thanks to Medway School of Art and Warnborough College for making it happen
www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
July 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Brilliant first day at #kartscon25 here in #Medway HUGE thanks to Medway School of Art and Warnborough College for making it happen
www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
www.kartscon.com/kartscon2025...
