1. Life Cycles and Landscapes
The continuing story of a partnership
2. Tom Munro – Dorset AONB
Lucy Galvin – Norfolk Coast AONB
Kim Tilbrook – Activate Performing Arts
3. Kim Tilbrook – Activate
• Produce, promote and develops the
performing arts in Dorset
• We believe that artists can affect and
provide positive change in our communities
4. Carabosse – Fire Gardens, Inside Out Dorset in
Bournemouth – 2007 Photo: Roy Riley
8. Life Cycles & Landscapes – Aims:
• To explore the ancient 400 mile original ‘super-highway’ - The Icknield
Way* as an inspiration to create a series of site specific live events
• A strategic agreement between outdoor arts and AONBs nationally,
with AONBs integrating Arts policy in their new Management Plans
• Talent and sector development for environmental/guardians of the
landscape and Outdoor Arts - including 3 residencies
• And Now: artistic development
• The artistic creation will comprise of 4 events in the landscape.
Performative installations that will bring live audiences, performance,
visual, digital and live artists and musicians to an artistic experience
that will animate the landscape. Each will culminate in some level of
resolution. May – September 2018
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10. Life Cycles & Landscapes
ACE Ambition for Excellence
Primary Partners:
Activate
And Now:
National Association for AONBs
Dorset, Cranborne Chase, North Wessex Downs, Chilterns and Norfolk
Coast AONBs
Arts University, Bournemouth
Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Oerol Festival, Netherlands
Corn Exchange
National Trust at Basildon Park
Holkham Estate, Norfolk
Inside Out, Dorset
35. Oerol: learning from over 30 years
of experience
' The clashes that take place between
The Staatsbosbeheer and the Oerol Festival
release energy.'
36. Bringing together... land managers
Case study: 'Wind Still Life' – Walden Collective
'The real owners are the people who live here'
'The first time the artists came my reaction was -
no way!‘ Remy (Statsbosbeheer)
37. … + artists
Thomas (Walden Collective)
'Limitations are not limitations – they are factors
that inform the work.'
38. … + local residents
Oosterend is a 'secretive' community
There is a lot of resistance to change
4,800 on island as a whole
500,000 tourists per year (same density of
visiting as Amsterdam)
80% island owned by state
Tourism is worth E80m to island
39. … + audiences
Art is a way in to landscape
Audiences need to cooperate with artists in new ways
Cooperation develops a value beyond words
… x role of producers Broker/intermediary between
different worlds - producers, arts organisations,
festivals
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43. = results
Enormous opportunity to:
• Build active engagement
• Share landscape in new ways
• Unlock resources
• Show value of landscape
• Understand landscape
53. • Tell the person next to you about an Arts
activity you have been involved in and what
the benefits were
• Do you have or are you thinking about
including an arts-related policy?
• If not policy-driven, what arts-led engagement
have you thought about or would like to do?
• Fill in a postcard, tell us about it
54. How will you develop your Arts Policy?
• Kim@ActivatePerformingArts.org.uk
• lucy.galvin@norfolk.gov.uk
• T.Munro@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Editor's Notes
How it all began
South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership
Barrow
Wayfaring
How it sits in our Management Plan and how it benefits the AONB (hand out policy)
High quality celebration of the landscape/landscape features
Greater depth of engagement in landscape aspects and questions – archaeological heritage, farming heritage, wildlife
New audiences
Greater numbers of people simply being outside, hopefully stimulating revisits or more ‘nature contact’
Enriching experiences of the AONB
Benefits of having supportive policies in Management Plan; how this benefits the AONB
Engagement: Over 1,000 volunteers come from mainland - get free camping and meals, 50% discount on shows
Artists developed - work closely with organisers over years
'This demands flexibility from the artist as much as us – it is important to look for artists who can respect the area and the professionals who look after it '
Artists pay a bond - 500E
'You need to do the concept development with an intimate knowledge of the space'
Lived there for a month and half - 'knocked on every door'
A deep map - the soul of the landscape/the landscape of the soul translate into each other
NB All communities are resistant to change!
Visits to many different sites whilst looking – issues:
Sensitivities on coast – SSSI; breeding birds; visitor pressures; access issues - both physical (tide etc) and social (getting beyond usual audiences)
Natural England; Holkham Estate; Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Involvement of wider community – how, why - new opportunities to work across boundaries
These challenges are helping to forge new and useful working relationships.