Making illuminated art with recycled plastic waste.
● An environmental statement
● Community project involving local residents
● Collaborative and eco-friendly
● Using recycled plastic bottles
● The process is as important as the results
● Inspired by nature
Through exploration and collaboration, we plan to better understand our relationship with the natural world through the connections between landscape, nature and folklore; considering the ways that folk practices celebrate the natural environment and can influence behaviour in certain landscapes.
We will explore how decisions can be made to protect and preserve the natural environment for the benefit of the human and non-human communities that hold these spaces and how folk practices/folklore can help to change attitudes and encourage caring and sustainable behaviour towards nature.
Key Activities
Aunty Social is a community arts organisation that gives people opportunities to develop their creativity, learn new skills and connect with others through positive arty activities.
We coordinate a diverse programme of arts and cultural activities designed to bring people together in a safe, supportive, gentle space. We’re led by volunteers who identify as traditionally marginalised members of the community.
It follows that we’re strong advocates of social justice and run ongoing projects that centre and uplift the voices of others who are marginalised, namely LGBTQIA+ people, women and people of colour. Our projects not only raise awareness of current issues, but often go on to raise funds and resources for local support services. We are active campaigners, often supporting people into civic engagement and participation around various current issues including climate change.
We’ve been active in Blackpool for over 13 years, engaging existing communities, building our own, and delivering welcoming, inclusive arts activity. We thrive on collaboration and this project allows us to bring multiple communities (new and old) together with established groups to develop and create a relevant and well considered collective outcome. We are a proud Blackpool organisation that prides itself on its reputation for building bridges between communities and arts activities across the Fylde Coast
Lucy is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Her work, which combines painting, making and performing, sits at the intersection of folklore and place, often using as source material the large personal archive of photographs and research she has gathered over nearly a decade of documenting female and queer-led folk customs.
Many of her project’s reference and subvert traditional practices—both material and performed—to explore the contestations of gender and class in the archive, and recurrent themes in her works include female solitude, the relationships between the body and the andscape, and the consolations of non-anthropocentric sociabilities.
Much of the Wright’s work interrogates the problematic relationships between folk, nationalism and colonialism, the under-representation of women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities in the existing canon of English folk arts, and the need for new, more inclusive traditions for our divided society.
