My Layers of the Past | Pockets of the Future workshop took place in the yurt at Raby Castle.
Setting images: Matt Denham. Workshop images: Claire Collinson Photography
Setting images: Matt Denham. Workshop images: Claire Collinson Photography
Our Creatively Connected Symposium took place on Friday at Raby Castle, County Durham. This one-day event marked the culmination of the Tees-Swale: Creatively Connected project. Over the past year, alongside artists John Coburn, Azadeh Fatehrad, Laura Harrington and Tim Shaw, I have been exploring the intersections of high nature value farming, nature recovery, community and creative practice in the landscapes of Teesdale and Swaledale.
The event offered the opportunity to share the work developed over the past year with event participants including farmers, landowners, community members, academics, policy-makers and creative thinkers. Together, we reflected on how creativity and the arts can amplify and enrich conversations around farming, ecology, and the future of our uplands.
My contribution to the day came in the form of a workshop: Layers of the Past | Pockets of the Future. Inspired by the gentle and restorative acts of care practiced through volunteer sessions on farms and at the Bowlees Tree and Wildflower Nursery over the past year, my seed workshop invited participants to sow wildflower seeds to grow plants that will be planted out in Teesdale's hay meadows next year. While doing so, together we explored the 'pockets of the future in the present' that we recognise in their own lives - the good practices, behaviours and organisations, ways of being and doing, that should be nurtured in our ideal visions of the future.
The event offered the opportunity to share the work developed over the past year with event participants including farmers, landowners, community members, academics, policy-makers and creative thinkers. Together, we reflected on how creativity and the arts can amplify and enrich conversations around farming, ecology, and the future of our uplands.
My contribution to the day came in the form of a workshop: Layers of the Past | Pockets of the Future. Inspired by the gentle and restorative acts of care practiced through volunteer sessions on farms and at the Bowlees Tree and Wildflower Nursery over the past year, my seed workshop invited participants to sow wildflower seeds to grow plants that will be planted out in Teesdale's hay meadows next year. While doing so, together we explored the 'pockets of the future in the present' that we recognise in their own lives - the good practices, behaviours and organisations, ways of being and doing, that should be nurtured in our ideal visions of the future.
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