Are you an artist, musician or creative that would like to help remix the sounds of the Fellfoot Forward area for a special public event?

Join us for a free full day workshop to learn skills and develop new audio-visual work to be performed at a public event later in October at Melmerby Village Hall.

This event is being facilitated by BlueJam Arts and Eden Valley Artistic Network, and delivered as part of the Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme.

The focus for the workshop will be on sharing, remixing and creatively responding to the diverse sounds of the Fellfoot Forward landscape, from its rivers and streams, to its birdsong and shifting social landscapes. Attendees will have an opportunity to remix longform recordings of the Fellfoot Forward area, including a stunning dawn chorus collected by Fellfoot Forward artists who worked with renowned natural sound artist, Chris Watson, in May 2023. Watch the video of the workshop.

You will be supported to create new work that inspires new ways of listening to the landscape. This could be any audio-visual or performed work (predominantly sound and music but also projected images/video, spoken word, and creative writing). We are open and interested in a range of creative practices at the event.

The day will combine presentation and demonstrations, making and creating, informal discussion, listening and with plenty of space for solo and collaborative development of new work. It will be a friendly and accessible event where artists/creatives are supported to feel  part of a wider community of creative practice.

The produced work will be showcased at an event on Sunday 22 October at Melmerby village hall featuring the creative responses to the sounds of the Fellfoot Forward landscape. Audio works will also be broadcast on Fellfoot Radio, an online radio stream.

Please note spaces are limited. Register your interest by emailing BlueJam Arts.

The Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme is led by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This event is part of ‘Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same’, the Fellfoot Forward LPS community arts project for 2023, which has been funded by Arts Council England and Westmorland and Furness Council.