Postcards from the Universe Next Door
On this page, you’ll find a selection of the creative ideas which were developed over a weekend residential in Ennerdale in August 2019, where we made “a temporary artistic community, exploring creative ways of being with each other in fellowship, in harmony, in nature.”
Video Postcards
A playlist of videos from the event
Sonic Postcards
Keith Fitton’s creative response to the weekend…
What?
The Universe Next Door was a public weekend residential to create a temporary artistic community, and explore creative ways of being with each other in fellowship, in harmony, in nature.
Over the weekend, we made art together – including singing, song writing and composition responding to the natural environment. The project is a way of imagining a more harmonious and sustainable future - a culturally democratic artistic antidote to more commercial forms of mass entertainment, and a means of building and strengthening communities.
The residential was facilitated by an ensemble of socially engaged musicians including a cappella quartet Mouthful (Bex Mather, Dave Camlin, Katherine Zeserson & Sharon Durant), Dirk Proost (oboeist and improviser) and Sarah Verhulst (Early Years specialist) from Antwerp, NE percussionist Brendan Murphy, and Cumbrian willow artist Phil Bradley.