Red River: expanding the archive, a day of poetry and print
Sat 3 Feb 2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Kresen Kernow, TR15 1AS
Red River: expanding the archive, a day of poetry and print
Sat 3 Feb 2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Kresen Kernow, TR15 1AS
Description
An exhibition and celebration marking the culmination of the Red River AHRC-funded research project, creative exploration, and commissions led by the poet John Wedgwood Clarke (University of Exeter). Join us to listen to the sounds and stories of the river’s past and present, and to make your own response or reflection in poetry or print.
Poetry can make the overlooked special through naming it. The Red River, which runs from the heart of the Cornish World Heritage mining landscape out into St Ives Bay, may be small and sometimes ‘ugly’, but it’s as meaningful as any great river. The river’s histories and ecologies have much to tell us about where value is placed, and about the entangled relationship between the human and the natural world. Our lives are in its sediments and the organisms that have adapted to live in it; our ideas have exploited its energy.
From 10am to 11am artist Mollie Goldstrom, will share some of the archival, and natural sources that inspired her intricately drawn responses to the river.
Then there are two opportunities to engage in creative writing workshops led by John Wedgwood Clarke and mono-printmaking workshops led by artist Naomi Frears. If you choose to do both you’ll come away with your own twofold work pairing image and language. Sessions run 11am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3pm.
At 3.30pm join us for a poetry reading, and the launch of a new artist book combining images by Naomi Frears and an extract of John Wedgwood Clarke’s book length poem.
Booking and access information:
Thanks to the generous support of FEAST Cornwall, all the sessions are offered free of charge, but please book in advance for the printmaking and writing activities. Accompanied children are very welcome, we’d suggest the activities would be most suited to those aged 12 or older. If you reserve a place or places and then find yourself unable to attend please email info@fieldnotes.org.uk
Kresen Kernow has very limited parking on site, please consider traveling using public transport or making the short walk from the nearby council run New Cut car park. Redruth railway station is a fifteen minute walk, and the nearest bus stop is situated at Tesco Redruth, less than five minutes’ walk away.
Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels, automatic main entrance doors and accessible toilets (more information can be found here). If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building.
If you have access needs, concerns or questions relating to the talks or workshops please contact info@fieldnotes.org.uk
Location
Kresen Kernow, TR15 1AS