COLLISION & CONFLICT
PROJECT OUTLINE
Collision & Conflict will be a geolocated sound walk through the Northumberland Cumbria landscape. The walk will travel along Hadrian’s Wall National Trail taking Thirlwall Castle, Green Croft On The Wall, the pronounced ditch at Gilsland, preserved milecastle at Poltross Burn, 914m stretch of wall at Willowford and to roman bridge remains beside the River Irthing leading to Birdoswald Roman Fort.
Often called the Borderlands or Forgotten Lands, the area is wild, bleak, beautiful, and unforgiving. Conflict over boundaries have dominated the history of the area, leaving scars present on the landscape. Thirlwall Castle is where the barbarians ‘thirled’, or threw down part of the wall, during a raid in Roman times. Romans were replaced with Reivers, with Gilsland at the centre of conflict and raids between Reiver families. Conflict continues in contemporary rural Britain with contested views on what land should be used for; production, consumption, preservation, diversification.
ARTIST OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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KEEP MOVING
During lockdown Green Croft Arts offered a range of FREE activities to help keep those at most risk moving taking into consideration lack of internet access and use for rural and older communities.
FREE 1:1 Digital Training Sessions
18 people accessed our free 1:1 sessions digital skills training sessions, offering guidance and confidence on using Zoom to enable them to take part in our Chair Yoga sessions. After the training some chose not to access the online classes and receive the free DVD's instead.
FREE Online Chair Yoga Sessions (via Zoom)
- Wed 10.30 - 11.30am
- Friday 10.30 - 11.30am
Amanda will lead you through a gentle seated yoga class. The class will start with finding and using your breath, neck and spine warm up, modified seated yoga poses that will offer some gentle stretching, supported standing poses to help with balance and finish with a guided relaxation.
We offered free accessible chair yoga sessions twice a week for 15 weeks. We had 14 regular attenders.
YOU TUBE Channel / FREE DVD's sent to your home
We planned, filmed and edited 9 accessible chair based yoga sessions of different lengths and focus. We sent out burned 48 DVD's and sent them to individuals and care homes as well as making them available to stream for free on our You Tube Channel.
ZOOM Coffee Morning
We hosted 15 Zoom Coffee mornings every Monday at 11.00am where we shared memories and stories to a theme for the week; memorable holidays or the last thing you saw at the theatre.
Please get in touch with Amanda on 016977 47828 or by email info@greencroftonthewall.com
These activities have been funded through The National Lottery Community Fund.