Sunday 3 June for one day only at Powerstock Common, Bridport, Dorset
A free day of art events and workshops for all ages at Powerstock Common on Sunday 3 June, 11am – 4pm includes three temporary art works by artists Adam Chodzko, Judith Dean and Anna Lucas The day’s programme includes walks, videos, and performances and a pedal powered film, with free workshops in charcoal making and storytelling, run by the Treewise Co-op, for children accompanied by an adult. The Kingcombe Centre will be running a pop-up Café all day at the Common offering hot drinks, soft drinks, cake, BBQ and soup.
This is the final event of Road for the Future. The project has been started by artist Anna Best who, having been brought up and lived in London, returned with her partner and two young children to her family’s roots near Powerstock in 2007. Road for the Future combines her response to living in a very rural place dependent on a car for transport, public access to the countryside and adjusting to remote digital working as an artist, away from her professional networks and connections.
Anna Best says: I believe art is a space where it’s possible to imagine things differently, to be less pragmatic, to discuss and evolve ideas, which can then feed into our visions for the future.
Road for the Future has been developed in response to a local proposal by Sustrans for a new Right of Way in the Dorset countryside running along the old railway between Maiden Newton and Bridport. The project was prompted by a desire to support this vision, which seems so timely, practical and sustainable, but which is encountering some local opposition. It is the first project of unincorporatedcollaborations, a voluntary organisation set up by Anna Best to develop collaborative art projects.
The artists, internationally known Adam Chodzko, London-based film maker Anna Lucas and Jerwood sculpture prize winner Judith Dean have worked in residence at Powerstock Common as well as remotely for a year. The artists’ works are dealing with broader concerns of public access, the politics of conservation and the countryside, and humanity’s cycles of colonization and collapse.
Further discussion and debate of the issues that are tackled by the artists will take place at a brunch event, Futurology, chaired by Sophie Hope, at Bridport Arts Centre on Monday 4 June, 11am – 1pm. Entry is free – all welcome.
Road for the Future has been developed with the support of many partners including the Dorset Wildlife Trust and is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, West Dorset District Council, Ernest Cook Trust, Artsway Associates and Dorset Design and Heritage Forum.
EVENT DETAILS
All events are free – everyone welcome
- Sunday 3 June, 11am – 4pm Powerstock Common and Copse Barn
- 11am-4pm Film by Anna Lucas screened by pedal power (continuous loop)
- 11.30am Video and Performance / Walk by Judith Dean
- 12pm – 1.30pm Treewise children’s workshop: Charcoal making
- 2pm Performance by Adam Chodzko
- 2.30pm Video and Performance / Walk by Judith Dean
- 3pm – 4.30pm Treewise children’s workshop: Journey sticks storytelling
- 11am – 4pm Video by Adam Chodzko at Copse Barn (continuous loop)
- Monday 4 June, 11am – 1pm Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NR
Brunch and discussion chaired by Sophie Hope, with artists Anna Best, Adam Chodzko, Anna Lucas and Judith Dean. Sophie Hope’s Futurology workshops take time travel as a facilitation method to reveal the different hopes and fears people have about life now but through the lens of the future.
Contact for further details: Anna Best,
email: anna@annabest.info; tel: 07810 374 745
