An exciting multimedia exhibition exploring the changing landscapes, histories and folklore of the Fens through image, sound, story and performance.
This exciting event at the Ramsey Heights nature reserve brings together various multi-media artists responding to memory, environmental change and the uncertain future of this unique landscape.
Art installations and performances on site will include:
- Echoes of Change - A photographic installation created by Fraser Mcgruer which will include images from the past, present and future illustrating local myth and story/ water/ sky/ earth/ magical realism
- Fen Folk - Fen folklore and myth art prints created by Chloe Robinson
- And the Water Shall Know No Dominion - A soundscape installation
- The Great Reckoning/ Forty Foot Deep/ Bog Oak/ The Battle of the West Fen - Pop-up performances by Forty Foot Bridge
- Forty Foot Bridge Art - Prints inspired by the music above.
- Ancient Forest - Three bog oak carvings encased in willow reflecting climate change and the ice age initiating.
- Forty Foot Bridge Music - Live acoustic music with synth/voice improvisions and audience participation.
- The Cloutie Tree - The Beast (AKA 'Pete the Tree') of the Bourne Borderers Morris Dancing Side
- Ouse Washes Molly Dancers
- Three Dykes and an Eel - Play featuring fen characters centred around radical histories.
- Local nature prints and photographic installations by Martha Cattell and Yasmin
- Keeping the boundaries - pop-up poetry and story interactions.
Session times are subject to change - please check with staff on the day.