The community groups - the writers
*Ripon House, progress to change - Leeds
*Kurdish Community - Leeds
*SELFA Children's Charity - Skipton and the area around
*Settle Stories Writers' group - from the general area along the Bentham Line
*Pioneer Project's Well being and people living with dementia group- Bentham
*Wild Ingleborough (primary schools within this project) Schools stretching from Gargreave to Morecambe
*Farmers - from the general area
*Rail workers past and present - from the general area
We will also be running some sessions on the train for members of the public not affiliated with any of these groups.
We hope to announce more groups soon.
Our Guest Facilitators
Wendy Pratt - Wendy Pratt is a poet, author, editor and workshop facilitator living and working on the North Yorkshire coast, where she grew up. Her recent book, The Ghost Lake, is an exploration of North Yorkshire, grief, and her working class roots, and stories about Mesolithic people and a prehistoric lake, which was long listed for the Nan Shepherd Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, Blackbird Singing at Dust, is out now.
Kaajal Modi (tbc) - Dr Kaajal Modi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher working through creative practices to explore how making in collaboration with diverse communities (human, microbial and otherwise) can be a way to recover climate heritages in ways that open up new speculations on how we might live in the future. Their practice-based PhD, Kitchen Cultures (2019–2024) explored food fermentation in collaboration Global Majority women in their own kitchens over the COVID-19 lockdown as a negotiation of multispecies ontological politics through digital and postdigital practices of metabolic intimacy.
Yorkshire Peat Partnership - facilitator tbc - they will lead a community group on a field trip exploring peat restoration and how peat and its surrounding moorland environment is traditionally represented in art and culture
Forest of Bowland National Landscape - facilitator tbc - they will lead two community groups exploring their Land Mark Trees project and Dark Skies project
Letters to the Earth - Letters to the Earth is an award-winning global participatory and story-telling organisation, mainstreaming connection with nature to activate change-makers and build the environmental movement. Launched in the UK in 2019 by theatre-makers, artists and writers, our aim is to facilitate mass engagement with the climate & nature crisis via creativity and connection. Our global campaigns, workshops and artworks help people realise their interdependent relationship with the wider web of life, opening their emotional connection to the state of the planet, growing their sense of belonging, and increasing their capacity to respond to the environmental crises of our times.
Our Partners and collaborators
The Leeds-Morecambe Community Rail Partnership
Northern (trains)
Forest of Bowland National Landscape
Yorkshire Peat Partnership
Wild Ingleborough
Pioneer Projects
Settle Stories
Letters to the Earth
AT Creative
