There are lots of ways of creatively interpreting the land around us; from photography to sculpture, film to creative writing, storytelling to painting. Here is a brilliant tanka poem written by Sally Payne a local creative writer: Farm Grating vision, land Rough load ploughed with grave burden Ruddy wrecked, labour Old wrinkled hand of weathered […]
Posts Tagged ‘Community project’
Documenting Cornish Farms over 2010
During ‘Family, Farming & Tradition’ Sarah was lucky enough to spend the year photographing the farming year. For this we chose a range of farms across Cornwall including dairy, arable, livestock and flower farming. We also aimed to get a range of both large and small-scale farming. The idea was to photograph as much activity […]
Exploring the archives at the Royal Cornwall Museum
As we discovered during ‘Family, Farming & Tradition’ there are so many amazing photographs stored within the Royal Institution of Cornwall collections at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. Once again we are collaborating with the museum and welcoming people to explore the archives and share your memories. If you are interested in coming along […]
Cows cows cows!
The last few weeks we have been enjoying visiting local Cornish farmers to carry out further interviews and collect photographs and footage to help us make a series of digital stories for our forthcoming schools work. Digital stories are essentially short films (typically under 3 minutes) that feature the voice of storyteller (in our case […]
Return to Kestle film
http://vimeo.com/13643055
A wonderful film of Boaden Lyne, a retired farmer who was born and raised on a remote West Cornish farmstead, returning to the newly restored farmhouse complex, and recalling his childhood memories of growing up in a place as wild and unchanged as Kestle Barton.
We hope to capture similar lovely stories of the area in our collaboration with Kestle Barton.
A Film by Shaven Ape for Kestle Barton.
