Join us In-Person or on Zoom

When we combine the scientific with the felt and experienced, our capacity to connect to a landscape and begin to understand it is greatly deepened.

How can we begin collaborative projects between communities, artists, landscape management and ecologists?

How can this process open up discussions and opportunities for deeper understanding and complex action, and what practical support or guidance is needed? 

This event will bring people together from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds at varying stages in their careers. We welcome creatives interested in landscape and those working in the landscape with interests in opening up and diversifying their work and reach. Together we will share knowledge and experience around environmental issues and engaging with diverse communities to explore and understand how we – people – connect to and with the landscape, habitats, biodiversity and climate emergency.

During the day, we will hear inspirational presentations focusing on interdisciplinary peat collaborations between artists, restoration ecologists, art organisation and landscape partnerships. 

Yet, inspiring stories are just that. We also want to unpick the challenges of such collaborations, not least, how do these collaborations come about and how can we initiate more? What steps can we take? And, what are the practicalities, for example, funding opportunities and writing and responding to artist briefs?

BOOKING 

To book your place, click the green ‘REGISTER’ button on this page, found beneath the banner image at the top. You will be given two ticket options.

To attend in person, select 'In-Person: The Garage, BB9 5NH'.

To attend online, select 'Online: Zoom' instead. You will receive an email with the zoom link and further details prior to the event.

MORNING SESSION

Film screenings, presentations and live Q&As showing Art-Community-Ecology Collaborations, with a focus on working with PEAT. 

Artist Kerry Morrison and PHLP Ecologist Sarah Robinson will talk about their Pendle Hill peat partnership from the Hill’s summit restoration work to the novel ways they have engaged with local communities during the peat restoration process. 

FILM PREMIER: Created in September 2021 Sowing In Time poetically captures a participatory seed sowing procession on Pendle Hill as part of the collaborative peat restoration works, with Kerry Morrison and Sarah Robinson working with In-SItu and Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership

FILM: Peat Restoration Ecologist Emily Taylor and Artist Kate Foster in a conversation about their collaboration from a peat bog in Galloway, filmed by Jayne Murdoch. 

Peatland Action Project Officer Anna Basley will present the broader picture of peat restoration in Galloway and Scotland and the challenges faced in protecting peat and peatland habitats.

Community Engagement Officer, Jayne Murdoch, will introduce their community engagement plans and ambitions through Peatland Connections, a project using arts and science to reconnect rural communities, scientists, land managers and policymakers with land-use decisions. Peatland Connections was developed from working in partnership with Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership and collaboration with artist Kate Foster. 

Artist, Kate Foster, will present work produced and developed over the past five years and take us into the future with her upcoming projects, including a residency with Peatland Connections and at the World Soil Museum Amsterdam (2022). 

---

AFTERNOON SESSION

A series of focused conversations, inspired by the morning session with the opportunity to talk and share on various topics around People, Ecology, Art and Terrain and collaboration.

In-Person: This will be a World Cafe where you move from table to table, that will pool collective knowledge and experience.

LUNCH: A special lunch of Pendle Peat Pie (vegan) will be provided for people attending in person

COVID CONSIDERATIONS 

The In-Person event at The Garage will be restricted to 25 people due to social distancing. We would ask you to be mindful about wearing a mask to ensure the comfort and safety of others attending.

Please give due notice if you are no longer able to attend the in-person event after booking to make your space available for another attendee.