community narratives and regeneration in peripheral regions
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This project is a partnership between the Eden Project, Wildworks Theatre Company, the Health Complexity Group at Peninsula Medical School, the Post-Mining Alliance and the Sensory Trust. Our partners are a deliberately eclectic mix of people who all approach rural community regeneration from a slightly different angle.
2007 saw two major outputs from this project:
WildWorks Cornish productions of Souterrain in July 2007
This production worked directly with residents from Cornish communities show, Souterrain explores themes of death, lost love, grief and renewal, set in the ‘underworld’. It is a powerful metaphor our programmes core themes.
The show moved through the UK and France in 2006. The 2007 the show focused its community engagement elements on the specificity of the Cornish experience. The production and performance explored the way that loss and grief also can apply to loss of identity and connections with the environment, with themes of dissolution and chaos, grief and renewal explored relative to cultural-lead regeneration. The performance itself was presented in Cornwall, situated within a site that was part of the lost mining industry. More about Souterrain
Sense of Place conference at the Eden project in September 2007
Sense of Place was a national conference that focussed on what makes places valued and meaningful to their residents, explore the extent to which land, places and spaces are part of a community, and review what is known of how these connections can be strengthened through regeneration programmes. This was not a typical conference part of the aim was to allow participants to experience the qualities and processes that make spaces meaningful and involved a collection of workshops and site visits alongside the conference programme. More about Sense of Place