Artists from Glassball Studio are inviting local people to join them for five days of free walks, talks, exhibitions, food, guest speakers, writing, drawing and making activities as a culmination of their GUIDEline creative heritage project

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Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and support from the Peak District National Park Authority, artists from Glassball Studio have been delivering a creative heritage project titled GUIDEline. The project explored the legacy of the formation of the first National Park in the UK, with a focus on the north west boundary area from Glossop to Diggle, in particular what it means to us today to live, work and visit along a mark made on a map 70 years ago.

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During the symposium, which will be based out of the Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle, Glassball Studio artists aim to create time for discussion around making work with people and place, and how we can capture, if at all, the collaborative process, what are the legacies of this form of making work together through public art practice, how do we archive the intangible (and the inevitable impossibility of this kind of endeavour), and who holds the power - the funder, the artist, the participant, or the landscape?

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The symposium will be launched on 29th March at The Bulls Head, Tintwistle, which will be open to all, with site-specific video and sound installations and lively discussions, alongside a free vegan hot buffet.

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Highlights for the subsequent four days include a boundary walk led by artist Alison Lloyd from Old Glossop to the Longdendale Environmental Centre, a talk by Charles Quick - Professor of Public Art Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, a workshop where art meets science with artist Antony Hall, a talk by Anna Badcock – Cultural Heritage Manager for the Peak District National Park Authority, a drawing excavation workshop with artist Simon Woolham, and finally, a talk and writing workshop, titled ‘Writing Beyond Participation’, with guest speaker Lizzi Lloyd – art writer, researcher and regular contributor to Art Monthly.

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For timings and further details, please visit www.guideline.org.uk  for regular updates and how to book onto the various free activities.

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