CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS
We are running a series of art, sound and film projects this Autumn focused on inspiring young people to be outside, listening to the sounds of soil, making films, taking photos and exploring soil fertility and plant life.
SVA is working with Zerodig Farm and Curriculum For Life to lead a creative engagement programme led that brings together young creatives, families, and artists to explore the intersection of science, farming, and global stories through participatory art. The aim is to learn about soil culture through creative practice and inspire a more imaginative connection to our local landscape. The project is funded by the European Union through the funded for the Soil Tribes programme Horizon project.
Zerodig is a not-for-profit social enterprise focusing on soil restoration to increase the quality and volume of nutrient rich food production.
https://zerodig.earth/
Curriculum For Life supports young people to develop and thrive during and after their educational journey.
https://curriculumforlife.com/
Are you 16-25 yrs old and want to know more? Get in touch: office@sva.org.uk
EVENTS COMING UP
Workshop
Thursday 1st October 4-6pm
With Rory Thomas Lawton and Michael Peters
Using a geophone, a microphone that listens underground, we’ll record the hidden sounds of the soil and build them into a track that joins musicians from around the world and for sound art installation at SVA.
Residency
6th -10th October
Rory Thomas Lawton
An explorative immersive sound journey hidden within soil and nature to elevate imagination and deepen listening.
Workshop
Monday 19th October 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. Learn how to sculpt the raw recordings into usable drum and synth sounds that knock on a wall gets shaped into the actual kick drum of the finished song.
Workshop
Thursday 22nd October 4-6.30pm
Workshop with Esther Campbell and Chiz Williams from Kitchen Table Photo Club. Explore the ground beneath you through the lens. Bring old cameras and photos and join in a Fantasy Camera workshop and become part of the club.
Workshop
Thursday 29th October 4-6.30pm
Workshop with Sophie Ferrier. Bring a soil sample from your garden, allotment or favourite woodland. Put it under a microscope and make a print, a soil fingerprint unique to your patch of ground, as part of a growing archive of Stroud’s soils.
Workshop
Friday 19th November 4-6pm
A hands-on interactive experience that turns the natural electrical signals of plants and fungi into live ambient music.
Live Performance
Friday 19th November 8pm
A musical collaboration with nature. Living organisms, like plants and fungi, produce unique electronic signals that can be converted into sound and music: a process called biosonification.
Workshop
Monday 23rd November 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. We pull everything together - samples, song and visuals into the finished piece.
PAST EVENTS
Workshop
Thursday 24th September 4-6pm
Workshop with Gail Ileve. Japanese moss plant workshop - the traditional art of wrapping a plant’s root system in a mud ball and lush live moss to create living art.
Live Performance and Installation
Thursday 17th September
Sound artist, composer and nature beatboxer Jason Singh presents a live improvised performance developed in response to Squid Soup’s Infinite installation.
13th-14th & 21st-22nd June
Zerodig, Oakbrook Farm
What's living in your soil? Come and find out.
Bring a soil sample. From your garden, allotment, a favourite woodland, or beneath a tree you know well. Sophie will put it under the microscope so you can see what's actually living in it. You can also make a print from your sample - a kind of soil fingerprint, unique to your patch of ground. Come back the following weekend to collect it, and your print will become part of a growing archive of Stroud's soils.
Workshop
Sunday 26th April, 11am - 4pm
Artist, community compost activist, and soil advocate Sophie Lilian Ferrier will be guiding the young people of Stroud through an explorative and creative worm tunnel, connecting workshop participants with Soils and the microorganisms that live underground supporting our food systems, and our everyday consumption.
