Visit the tennis court site to meet the artists, view the artworks on display, watch the performances and let us know how you think the site could be developed in the future.
Performances will take place on each day as follows:
Saturday 30 July
5pm Natural Mystic Between the Air- Music Performance
Classical guitarist and composer of experimental music, Mathew Sallis will perform three of his original compositions joined by artists Brett Cherry and Joe Sallis for an improvised performance on hand-made instruments.
5:30pm Bramble Brain – A performance with Oliver Wallace
A storytelling performance to welcome visitors into the blackberry briar and its prickly tangle of relationships. Folktales and real-life stories coil around playful, quiet hollows as we explore the metaphorical, multi-species mass of the briar.
Sunday 31 July
5:30pm ‘Seedlings
A live sung Performance by Zoe Kendall
The piece explores human behaviour through the growth and planting of seeds.
Artworks on site on both days include:
- Sean Rodrigues: Snake Pavilion – an umbrella for a traveling merchant peddling charms under the sun.
- Lois Robins: Head of a Woman – a portrait of a woman who has lost her body, made of willow, wheat, onion, garlic, glass, twine.
- Jim Lloyd: Words – haikus and short poems directly inspired by the garden and distributed around the site to be discovered.
- Finn Hughes-Smith: Knotless Net Making an improvised synthesis of transference of knowledge and skill, artefacts, costume, and live performances, where Finn will demonstrate the endangered craft of nalbinding.
- Trish Hudson-Moses: Weaving in Nature – a series of her weavings made from natural fibres and home-made dyes. Trish will also be on site making and weaving twine from nettles.
These events are part of the Multispecies Visionary Council – a two day gathering at an overgrown former tennis court at Berwick Barracks to explore how the site could be developed into a community art garden whilst retaining the natural environment that already exists there.
What the Garden wants – Saturday 30 July 1pm – 4pm
Terra Domes of mythic and cosmic concerns – Saturday 30 July 2pm – 5pm
Permaculture for the Place – Sunday 30 July 11am-2pm
Multispecies Cultures – Sunday 30 July 2pm-5pm
Guidance and ticketing information
Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance.
Access to the site is from the Ravensdowne entrance to Berwick Barracks (TD15 1HF), please follow the signs from this point.
Please note the site has many uneven surfaces and potential trip hazards so visitors are requested to wear sensible footwear and stay on marked paths and areas. Unfortunately, the site isn’t suitable for young children and people with access requirements.