Morwenstow

The Passion

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES AND WILDWORKS with MICHAEL SHEEN "Love, Betrayal, Sacrifice, Passion." In a spectacular finale to its triumphant launch year, NATIONAL THEATRE WALES joined forces with WILDWORKS, which bought Michael Sheen home to star in a one-off ground-breaking theatre event which placed the Port Talbot community at its very heart.

The Enchanted Palace

Independent charity Historic Royal Palaces undertook a £12 million major project called 'Welcome to Kensington – a palace for everyone' to transform and re-present Kensington Palace by 2012.

The Memory Projector

In September 2009 a team of 10 WildWorkers together with 8 local artists and performers took up residence in Glasgow to create an interactive performance and installation that would be the centre piece of the Merchant City Festival.

The Beautiful Journey

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAS HAPPENED… The Beautiful Journey is set in the not so distant future. Something has happend. We are all on the move, an exodus into the unknown.

Imaginary Journeys: The Travel Agencies

WILDWORKS is proud to be one of the first companies commissioned through an exciting new arts programme called FEAST to lead an ambitious Arts in the Community project in seven market towns across Cornwall:

Souterrain

A WILDWORKS Production travelling through Britain and France, 2006-2007 Orpheus is returning home from war. The village is being decorated with bunting, and the "welcome home" banner has been raised. The band is playing, the choir singing and the vicar is handing out cake.

Clay Project

A WILDWORKS Project in St Dennis, Clay Country, Cornwall - January-April 2008 We had been driving past St Dennis for years, not paying it attention, just another village in Clay Country. But this is a place on the brink of dramatic change, the clay industries have all but disappeared and regeneration plans are being rolled out.

Morwenstow

A WILDWORKS Project in North Cornwall, November-December 2006We travelled the lanes, visited the churches and chapels, the institutes and community hall, the school, farms, pub, post office, fields and cliffs.

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / 3 island project

You are minding your own business. Suddenly a man with enormous wings crashes to earth beside you. Good luck or bad? Angel or demon? All you know is your life, and the life of everybody you know, will never be the same…ever again!

Journey to the Halo

A WILDWORKS Project in Haslingden, Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, September 2007High on the moors above the Rossendale Valley, dominating a landscape studded with the shapes of the old cotton mills, stands the Halo, a Panopticon landmark sculpture designed to celebrate the regeneration of the moorland landscape.

An archive of Cornish performance

An archive of Cornish performance held by University College Falmouth (UCF) following generous donations from WILDWORKS, Kneehigh and the family of Nick Darke will ensure invaluable performance materials are preserved and kept in Cornwall.

Morwenstow

A WILDWORKS Project in North Cornwall, November-December 2006

We travelled the lanes, visited the churches and chapels, the institutes and community hall, the school, farms, pub, post office, fields and cliffs.

The storms and gales dictated where we went and what we did. We got to know the lay of the land. Then we started to meet the inhabitants. We held a tea party at the school. We invited the people of the Parish of Morwenstow to tea parties and asked them to bring their memories, their photographs, their home movies… In the depths of Cornish winter we asked Morwenstow to counts its blessings, one by one.

We made shrines to the things people valued: soil, roots, cattle; this is, after all, a place where small farms have clung to the hills for millennia. We placed them around the village as small windows into memory and imagination.

We asked people to take us on a number of walks to places they loved. We made a film of these journeys: cliff paths, huge horizons, fields so steep they had to be abandoned after tractors replaced horses, the ancient churchyard where both farmers and shipwrecked sailors sleep together.

The project ended with a community party and film show. As well as the film we had made ourselves, we had found an archive film of the area from 1944. This was an extraordinary celebration of memory and pride of place. Participants spend a long time perusing the children’s work, peering into memory boxes identifying friends and relatives as well as their younger selves, enjoyed watching films featuring their friends and landscape.

First Class! Morwenstow resident

Loved the 2 films, and meeting the star of the Betty-Jean story. Morwenstow resident

Delighted to have been associated with you in this venture. Morwenstow resident

‘Count your Blessings’ was a WILDWORKS Community Project commissioned by the Atlantic Coast and Valleys Project, a partnership dedicated to the promotion of biodiversity in the rapidly changing small-scale agricultural landscape of North Cornwall. It took place in the North area of the ACVP, in Morwenstow and surrounding area, during November and early December 2006.