Sacred Spaces Through the Ages Project
Events as part of Sacred Spaces
'Words & Wildplaces'
Click on the link for further information:- Words & Wild Places
A creative writing project funded by the Arts Council through the National Lottery and LEADER in the Shropshire Hills.
‘Words and Wild Places’ is a creative writing project, which very much emphasises the arts, creativity and the natural environment, for people who would not normally engage with the arts.
Words and Wild Places at Clee Hill
20th May, click on the link for further details:- Clee Hill area
Photographic Competition 2011
Sacred Spaces on the Move -Travelling Photographic Exhibition 2012.
A successful competition during the seasons of 2011 created a fine selection of photographs from established and new participants in photographic competitions. After the Launch and Prize giving at Acton Scott Working Farm Museum, the photographs were organised into a small travelling display, with photo albums and a comments book – to continue the research with the public about current ‘Sacred Spaces’.
In the late autumn it was exhibited in venues in Ludlow finishing, pre Christmas, in the Ludlow Library. The first venue of 2012 will be Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre (3rd - 24th January) and from there it will be taken to Shirehall, Shrewsbury until 14th February.
Future dates and venues:-
Lydbury North Church 14th March to 11th April
Stokesay Church 11th April to 16th May
Hope Bowdler Church 16th May to 13th June
Bishops Castle Church 13th June to 11th July
Caynham Church 18th July to 15th August
If you have a space within South Shropshire where this exhibition could stand for 2 to 3 weeks please contact the CfGA office.
TWELVE SHROPSHIRE COMMUNITIES TO CELEBRATE THEIR SACRED SPACES
Sacred Spaces Through The Ages is an exciting three year LEADER Rural Development Programme. It’s designed to bring twelve communities and their special spaces and places together. And to inspire and engage people in developing a sense of place.
The Twelve Shropshire Communities
Bishop’s Castle, Clee Hill, Clun, Bettws y Crwyn, Chapel Lawn, Lydbury North, Little Wenlock, Rushbury, Ludlow, Hope Bowdler, Cardington and Craven Arms.
I look forward to working with the twelve nominated communities to help facilitate events and projects involving their community’s history and heritage. If you live or work in one of the above twelve communities have any ideas about events, activities and projects or believe your group, local society or organisation may benefit from the project, please contact Sue by email: info@cfga.fsnet.co.uk or on 01568 611154.
Sue Cooper, Project Co-ordinator
WHAT IS A SACRED SPACE?
Anywhere that has a special meaning to your community including wells, streams, ancient meadow, churchyards, stone circles, caves, standing stones, ancient track ways, geological formations, abbeys, veteran trees, ancient woodland, field systems, deserted villages, ruins and pilgrimage routes. We will be encouraging all kinds of events, activities and projects including oral history, archaeological or history in each of the communities, around places such as veteran trees, churchyards, holy wells, rivers, standing stones, ancient tracks or special buildings. If a place has a special meaning to your community then the chances are that it is a ‘sacred space’.
WHAT CAN THE PROJECT DO?
We can help your community celebrate its sacred space through co-ordinating and part-funding events and projects which can involve storytelling, folklore, archaeological investigation historical written sources, oral history, poetry, guided walks, pilgrimages, music and song, visiting speakers, dance and theatre, film and photography, workshops and courses, practical conservation/restoration projects.
The project is part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for European Development 2007-2013: Europe investing in Rural Areas, delivered via Advantage West Midlands Regional Development Agency with DEFRA as managing authority. It is designed to re-engage people with their landscape with an emphasis on sacred and historic places in their area.
Sacred Spaces Through the Ages Project Leaflet
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas
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