Tales from The Wetlands. A Story Telling Workshop.

WET / LAND / DWELLERS project is asking people in Woodhouse and nearby areas about their relationship to the wetlands of the Woodhouse Washlands, Shire Brook Valley and Beighton Marsh - in the past, present and future.

The workshop, led by Sheffield writer and performer Stacey Sampson, will involve a walk around the ponds at Shire Brook Valley, exploring the ecology of the area, and a outdoor workshop in which you will create and share stories, knowledges, memories, and imaginaries associated with the valley or washlands.

Refreshments provided and travel reimbursed. No previous experience needed. There is the opportunity to have your stories included in the project newsletter, podcast or website.

For more information please email: admin@artscatalyst.org or call Arts Catalyst on 07871 358337

Tickets are free but please reserve a place to help us manage capacity. Donation tickets help support Arts Catalyst's public programme of free events for South Yorkshire communities.

WET / LAND / DWELLERS is collaboration with Sheffield-based artists Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy (a place of their own) & art organisation Arts Catalyst as part of the Emergent Ecologies programme.

This event is aimed at adults but parents / carers are welcome to bring young people and children who don't mind being outdoors.

ACCESS: The workshop takes place outdoors, but the meet point will be the Shire Brook Valley Visitor centre, which has level access and a disabled toilet. The toilet is available for use throughout the session. Please email to request more information on routes for wheelchair users.

EXTRAS: We advise wearing suitable warm, waterproof clothing that will keep you warm for the duration of the workshop.

We are taking extra precautions to manage the risk of COVID-19.

We ask everyone attending this event to wear a mask indoors unless exempt. We are limiting capacity to enable social distancing and hand sanitiser is provided.

We ask everyone attending this event to take a Lateral Flow Test on the day of the event. You can order these tests here.

Please note: If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 such as sore throat, continuous headache, dry cough, runny nose, loss of taste of smell, or high temperature, or have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, please do not attend. We want to keep everyone as safe as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

If you develop symptoms of COVID19 after the event please email us at admin@artscatalyst.org and mark it 'URGENT' . This way we will be able to contact all who attended the event.

WET / LAND / DWELLERS

Wetlands are complex, environmentally important, ecosystems, and their loss inextricably connects legacies of colonial expansion with current environmental challenges. Up to 75% of the world’s wetlands are now lost, and so is the rich biodiversity that inhabits them as well as the histories that they carry.

Situated across Shire Brook Valley and Woodhouse Washlands in South Yorkshire, Wet / Land / Dwellers brings together communities, scientists, environmentalists and artists to interrogate the specificities of these sites through a critical spatial art practice. By navigating local stories, with their social, ecological, political and geological histories, and expanding to a planetary dimension, the project explores how communities understand their relation to wetlands and how they could be the site of new social/ecological relations.

The Wet / Land / Dwellers project seeks partly to raise awareness of the global destruction of wetlands. World Wetlands Day 2022 is on the 2nd February. Please see more info here.