Landscape: bringing the outside in and the inside out
Date & time
1 November 2025 | 15.00-17.30
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Participatory interactive event
Event topic
Environment, Health and wellbeing, Identity, My local area, Our working lives
Audience
Adults
Academic discipline
Social anthropology
Venue
The Strathmore Hotel, Marine Rd, Morecambe, LA4 5AP
What's on offer?
Participatory workshop and panel discussion, exploring findings from Lancaster Arts year-long project themed around LAND, and providing participants with the opportunity to explore their own experiences of and relationship to particular landscapes.
Participants will be welcomed with light refreshments, then hear from both residency artists and academics who have prduced work on the theme of land. They will then participate in a creative mapping exercise around their own experiences relating to land and actively contribute to a further creative discussion facilitated by one of Lancaster Universitiy's academics exploring what further topics emerge linked to land and possible future avenues for research and enquiry.
What's it about?
Over the past year, Lancaster Arts has been exploring the theme of land with artists, researchers, community groups and with people whose lives and livelihoods are rooted in the landscape as well as those who may feel more disconnected. In recent months, we’ve hosted residencies with artists Kate Fox and Ellie Harrison alongside academics from Lancaster University, to see where their creative explorations and thinking might take them.
Across these residencies, compelling questions have emerged: What is our personal attachment to the landscapes around us? How do we find our place in a landscape, shape it and be shaped by it? What is the relationship between our inner landscapes and the physical ones around us? How do we bring the land inside (our buildings or our bodies)? This ongoing exchange between the outer environment and our inner lives is central to how we live, create, and connect with each other and the land around us.
Please bring your own experiences of connections to the landscapes. Our partners artists and academics will share some of the questions and responses they have had to this theme in the last year.
Who's leading the event?
Lancaster Arts
Open to
The event is most suitable for participants aged 16 or over
Of particular interest to
Anyone interested in exploring connections to land and landscapes.
Event booking deadline
31st October
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