Report-back from Earth Festival stakeholder meetings along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site November 2010 1 A series of three meetings were held in November 2012 in Lyme Regis, Lulworth and Portland to discuss the Jurassic Coast Earth festival, which will be taking place between 4 May and 9 September 2012. (The East Devon meeting was postponed due to severe weather warnings and is rescheduled for 13 January 2011.) The Jurassic Coast Earth Festival is being led by the Lyme Regis Development Trust, and these events were run with invaluable input by various members of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team – which is supporting the development and implementation of the Earth Festival. The aims of the meetings were to: communicate the themes and opportunities provided by the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 inspire participation in the festival and stimulate new initiatives create connections within and between communities along the Jurassic Coast These were attended by over 80 people, comprising artists and arts organisations, venues, museums, local authority officers, councillors, community initiatives, visitor centres, conservation organisations including the National Trust, Dorset and Devon AONB, Natural England, Countryside Rangers, schools, media and others. A preliminary website www.earthfestival2012.org has since been created which contains information on the scope and aims of the Earth Festival. This will be added to as soon as possible in order to incorporate information about key events in planning, as they emerge, as well as a ‘back end’ facility to enable networking and project development between various initiatives. Copies of main presentations are being emailed to participants and available to download from the website, as are Earth festival Project/Event planning Proformas. Below are the notes from the flipcharts capturing project ideas and plans which were brought to the meetings. Many thanks and best wishes Candida Blaker Lyme Regis Development Trust, Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 2 Earth Festival-related ideas/ events in development From flipcharts at Stakeholder meetings in November 2010 Please note: what follows are some of the ideas that are developing and only those captured in the November 2010 meetings, others will be forthcoming soon and we will circulate information accordingly. Do contact each other directly if you feel you can add to or help develop a project plan that has been identified. Although they are arranged by district, many of them are relevant to the wider area. If you have an event / project plan to add, please download a proforma from the www.earthfestival2012.org via the Get Involved page , and send it to [email protected] – or if you get stuck, ring 01297 444042. Thanks! Candida Blaker, Lyme Regis Development Trust, Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 3 1 REGIONAL INITIATIVES & INTERMEDIARIES 5 1.1 East Devon AONB / Dorset AONB: 5 1.2 DepARTure – 5 1.3 Marketing 5 1.4 Suggestions for overall Earth Festival initiatives... 5 2 WEST DORSET 5 2.1 National Trust, West Dorset - Outdoor Nation 5 2.2 Spirit of Bridport 6 2.3 B sharp (Youth music / arts) Project in residence / Hear Here / bus x- 53- 6 2.4 Contemporary souvenirs – artist & crafts 6 2.5 Climate change, cocoa and Ghana 6 2.6 Stone plesiosaur installation 7 2.7 Students’ relationship to the Coast in photographs 7 2.8 Creative Relay / Rock Bands / Casting Impressions / Image Projections 7 2.9 Absence – site specific dance - performance 7 2.10 Darrel Wakelam 3D art - artist 8 2.11 Lyme Regis Artsfest 8 2.12 Shoreline 8 2.13 Mixed Media Mini May Arts Festival 8 2.14 Big write – life along the Jurassic coast / musical on the Cobb 8 2.15 Dorchester Festival 2012 8 2.16 Project Pliosaur – artist’s project 9 2.17 Bridport Arts Centre 9 2.18 Marine Theatre Lyme Regis 9 2.19 Dorchester Arts Centre 9 3 EAST DORSET 9 3.1 Lulworth Arts – exhibition 9 3.2 Spice Box – artist’s project 9 3.3 Swanage and Purbeck Walking Festival 9 3.4 Purbeck Aware Festival 10 3.5 Purbeck Art Week Festival 10 3.6 Purbeck Clay Festival 10 3.7 Swanage Middle and Purbeck School 10 3.8 'Glamour of Water, Grammar of Rocks 10 3.9 Story telling and film making 10 3.10 Burngate Stone Carving Centre 11 3.11 Lulworth Heritage Centre 11 3.12 Marketing and promotion 11 4 WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND 11 4.1 Wild about Weymouth and Portland 11 4.2 Series of walks/talks along the coast and inland highlighting rich diversity of geology and landscape and boat trips! 11 4.3 Beechcroft St Paul's Primary School - Kenya Link 12 4.4 Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust 12 4.5 Revive Portland – iPlay 12 4.6 Portland Museum 12 4.7 Bagwell Farm 12 5 EAST DEVON 12 5.1 Dance in Devon 12 5.2 Sidmouth Vision/ Sidmouth Town Council 13 4 1 REGIONAL INITIATIVES & INTERMEDIARIES 1.1 East Devon AONB / Dorset AONB: Kimmo Evans [email protected] / Sue Dampney [email protected] http://www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/ / http://www.dorsetaonb.org.uk/ Organise annual heath week on the Triassic pebble beds at wood bury castle. We have had arts/dance events as part of it and want more. Great natural amphitheatre. OFFER: Access to grants. Access to good practice – linking arts to schools 1.2 DepARTure – already have an important role as agent and conduit for arts and artists in schools, and would be vital in relation to the Earth Festival. [Similarly the arts in education agencies in Devon – DAISI and WAVE] Marketing and promotion – with the tourism sector 1.3 Marketing Tourist Information Centres need to be on board with Festival, events etc. Next meeting of all Tourist Information Centres May 2011. National Trust will meet with Tourist Information Centres, first West Dorset, possibly other Districts – Caroline Richards offered to present to them about Earth Festival [CB follow up] We need a Marketing 'Hub' to channel events → EF programme. E.g. National Trust West Dorset, Tourist Information Centre Purbeck, and liason with Jurassic Coast world Heritage Team visitor management (Julia/ Sally). 1.4 Suggestions for overall Earth Festival initiatives... Suggestion to map activities in quarries to include all various initiatives – this could be done by PSQT in Portland (then extend to whole festival) Earth Festival Passport (stamp book to record visits and give promotional offers). Use a social network forum as a holding space until a website can be developed. Good way to sustain links etc between contributors. Paul (PSQT). DATES: Dorset Heritage Week – 13 June 2011, probably the same in 2012. 2 WEST DORSET 2.1 National Trust, West Dorset - Outdoor Nation Caroline Richards, [email protected] Jurassic Play. 'Necklace' of natural play interventions along National Trust Jurassic Coast sites – dens, playful art. Chainsaw sculptures. 5 (Would welcome partners - www Teresa Grimaldi; State of Play Arts). Interactive smuggler trail at stonebarrow - Golden Cap - story telling, outdoor performance (story telling/artists/performers wanted ☺ ). Include MP3 downloads Lighting the Beacon at Thorncombe - Fire Festival/light show (Artists needed) Paper cinema? Jurassic star gazing; cloud watching Jurassic Flyers, Flying Trapeze Rig – hive beach. Walking festival (Jurassic) – could link with Swanage Walking Festival. Spring Tide 2012: Food Festival on the Jurassic Coast. Hive Beach- could link with LUNCH project Bridport (Tina Ellen Lee and Anna Ledgard). Pop up Café's on NT JC sites. Possibly celebrity chef 'Wild Card'. Jurassic Takeaway, eg Schools? 'Hard Rock Café'! Fossils by Fossils - intergenerational Fossil/Jurassic 'walk thru time' shuffle Old people/and kids. OFFER: West Dorset NT sites are fab for outdoor performance/ art installations etc NEED – artists ideas. All enquiries welcome. No idea too wild. 2.2 Spirit of Bridport Collaboration between local authorities and venues in Bridport to celebrate 2012. Harnessing various existing festivals, and Bridport’s heritage. For Olympics & Paralympics period 27 July – 9 September will stage 2 major exhibitions – Touch and Go (Salt House) – film about the Coast, and former paralympian. - Sport, our Rope & net - 1966 (Bridport Town Hall) 2.3 B sharp (Youth music / arts) Project in residence / Hear Here / bus x- 53- Fran Williams [email protected] http://www.bsharp.uk.com/ Project in residence: working with schools / youth projects & arts based initiatives – creative exploration of science and arts inspiring young people and communities performance. Hear here: large scale audio and visual installation on the cobb in Lyme Regis using young people working together for young people. Interpretation of living in Lyme, the Jurassic Coast and rural hinterland. February 2011 – summer 2012. Bus X-53: B sharp installation 2.4 Contemporary souvenirs – artist & crafts Freelance Artist - Caroline Barnes [email protected] / 07834 986462. Chideock http://www.cbceramics.co.uk/ A series of commissions to produce a range of souvenirs inspired by the Jurassic Coast produced as production runs in the south west utilising the craft and design creative industries we have. 2.5 Climate change, cocoa and Ghana Sir John Colfox School, Bridport. Belinda Bawden [email protected] http://www.colfox.org/ Project investigating what young people know about climate change along the Jurassic Coast. Links into pathfinder projects gifted & talented geography programme in 13 schools. Will build a model to enable young people to visualise the effects of climate change. 6 Links with a different project 6th form students (John Colfox school) are doing about awareness and understanding of climate change in Ghana, especially on the cocoa industry. NEEDS: Artist to advise/support the model making (eg. Darrel Wakelam) would be fantastic!! 2.6 Stone plesiosaur installation Herbie Treehead [email protected] http://www.herbietreehead.info/ Bridport A plesiosaur (or lots of) made out of Portland stone embedded in a field alongside the A35.