Echoes of the Stream

This community art workshop will be run by Ruthie Martin, who is the Artist in Residence at the Railway Land.

What would the stream say if it could speak? Rivers and streams are lifelines, storytellers and witnesses to change. Through their sounds, they speak of their journey, their struggles and their resilience. We will spend time by the stream listening from above as we walk, and from under the water using hydrophones to catch the special murmurs of thin-lipped grey mullet, which gather at the mouth of the Winterbourne each spring. Afterwards we'll return to the Linklater Pavilion, to interpret our experience in watercolour and chalk. Letting our recorded sounds guide our creative instincts, we’ll translate sound into vision through colour, shape, texture and line!

The workshop is for people aged 14 and above.

Host or Publisher Railway Land Wildlife Trust