Over the coming months The Art Station, Saxmundham presents The Creative Environment event series sharing presentations, discussion and creative activity, to explore the impact and possibilities of creative engagement with our natural environment for the wellbeing of our community and natural heritage.
The event series offers opportunities to meaningfully connect with community, creatives and environmentalists to amplify arts-in-nature practice examples from across Suffolk and Cambridge. Together we will share thoughts, ideas and opportunities and encourage networking to inform the ongoing development of creative environment work with and for East Suffolk’s market towns.
This work is generously funded by East Suffolk’s Community Partnerships Fund and will see themed events, The Creative Environment: Young Connections, The Creative Environment: Shifting Perspectives and The Creative Environment: Walking as Discovery, held in Leiston, Saxmundham and Aldeburgh during June, September and October respectively.
The Creative Environment: Young Connections, explores the impact of engagement with the creative environment for the wellbeing of Suffolks families, children and young people through presentations, discussion and creative activity.
Artist and Game Designer Henry Driver presents Treeplanter, a nature game resulting in real world tree planting consequences, created in collaboration with West Suffolk College and University students. See the launch of Treeplanter – ‘Leiston Level’ and hear from Leiston’s young people about their collaboration and perspectives on arts-in-nature practice. Director of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination, Emily Dowdeswell presents Call for Spaces of Liberated Learning, designed to spark conversations about creating spaces where children flourish, ‘particularly forests, fields and unruly artscapes’.
Refreshments and vegetarian lunch provided. Contact Bethany@theartstation.uk with questions and access requirements.
The Creative Environment: Shifting Perspectives, explores innovative and inclusive approaches to engagement with the creative environment for the wellbeing of groups and the benefit of our natural heritage through presentations, discussion and creative activity.
Ruth Catlow, Co-founder and Director of Furtherfield, an arts organisation employing art and technology for eco social change, presents their innovative multi species roleplay approach.
Kasia Posen, Project Development Officer at Suffolk Artlink, presents Wild About Kirkley a site specific project exploring accessible mapping, foraging and creativity to explore Kirkley’s unique natural environment.
Refreshments and vegetarian lunch provided. Contact Bethany@theartstation.uk with questions and access requirements.
The Creative Environment: Walking as Discovery, explores the power of walking and observing in connecting meaningfully with others and our natural surroundings through presentations, discussion and creative activity.
Richard Allenby Pratt, photographer and founder of The Suffolk Project, presents his creative practice photographing the rural landscape and its people, and supporting others to do so.
Jevan Watkins Jones, Suffolk based artist and gardener presents The Art Station’s Riverside Walks programme and its impact
Refreshments and vegetarian lunch provided. Contact Bethany@theartstation.uk with questions and access requirements.