We invited anyone who wished to share with us a story about the sea and in particular high tide. The programme is still in the planning stage but you can be sure that it will include all kinds of things from all kinds of people.

Tides are the constant ebb and flow of the planet, the stuff of myth and legend, artwork, folklore and personal history, scientific study and monitoring. Spring tides occur twice each lunar month, around full moon and new moon. The height of the spring tide varies throughout the month (and year), depending on the distance between Earth and the Moon (and the Sun). On March 30, in Exmouth, UK we will experience our highest spring tide of 2021. Art.earth, Tidelines and Low Carbon Devon invite you to mark this equinoctial tide by sharing your tide story with us. You might be an expert or you might just visit the sea once a year – whatever your relationship to the sea we want to hear from you.

The High Water event starts at 08.30 GMT on March 30 and continues to 22.00. We'll be announcing the programme soon and the Zoom details nearer the time - you can come and go as you please.

Who are we?

Tidelines is working with citizens of the Exe estuary and coastline and bringing together local knowledge, arts, sciences, and academic research in creative ways to celebrate, learn more about and care for our changing home at a time of climate and ecological change. This includes connecting the very local with the global through our oceans. Tidelines is made by its community of participants and devised and managed by project co-ordinators Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter.

art.earth celebrates and supports artists who look outward. This might mean quite explicitly talking in their work about environmental or ecological issues, or it might mean a much broader sense of the ecological: something that is open, enquiring, caring, and considerate of the world (people and places) it inhabits. Our work focusses on how we live on the planet and on art as a practice of being present and being here.

ERDF-funded Low Carbon Devon is a project of the Sustainability Hub at the University of Plymouth providing an exciting new catalyst for low-carbon economic growth in Devon. Low Carbon Devon supports Devon-based organisations to access research, business support, and engage with the University of Plymouth around the low-carbon agenda. This project has been supported by Low Carbon Devon.