Join us for the launch of SongMaps Rye, our ambitious mapping project, on Saturday 4 March 2023 at Rye Creative Centre from 1.45-3:30pm for an introduction to this free and interactive participatory project created by StrongBack Productions and Speaking Volumes in partnership with Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
We’re looking for 30 participants aged 13 years and upwards to explore how climate change and rising seas are affecting Rye through five workshops, where you’ll hear free talks from climate conservationists, citizen scientist group The Strandliners, an anthropologist and Rye fisherman.
We want to record these changes using poetry, music and the visual arts informed by science.
You’ll collaborate for free with acclaimed artists to create ‘maps’ using poetry, recorded sound, music and the visual arts. The maps will chart the changes, key places where these are occurring, key people involved in finding solutions and other significant information that will be discovered from the talks.
At the end of the project, you and the artists will present SongMaps Rye to the public in a free celebratory event marking your creative engagement with local environemental issues.
There will also be the chance to propose how to continue to combat the local problems you’ve uncovered.
The five workshops will take place between 25 March and 13 May 2023 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and Tilling Green Community Centre.
Participation is totally free. We welcome families with children aged 8-12, young people aged 13-18 and adults from 19 and up.
Email us at strongbackproductions@gmail.com to let us know you’d like to participate or come along to the session on 4 March and sign up in person.
No previous experience required only curiousity and commitment to the project.
Contact us at: strongbackproductions@gmail.com
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Rother District Council and support from The Chalk Cliff Trust.
Aged 14-18? Applications are open for Take Your Place!
Over the week, we'll meet artists and activists, practice public speaking, activism, and storytelling, and get creative. You'll receive £15 a day to cover food and travel —it's going to be wicked.
StrongBack Productions is grateful for the generous gift of one year’s core funding received from a benefactor who wishes to remain anonymous.
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