After exploring Blisworth Tunnel ahead of David Littler and Jason Singh’s event on 23rd July, we captured a spontaneous performance by Simon Woolham as we saw daylight for the first time in 40 minutes.

Our Summer 2011 bulletin features information on ‘ENCOUNTERS: Journeys through language and landscape’, a series of temporary artist installations and interventions, performances and artist led walks, along a three mile route from Fermyn Woods Country Park to Lyveden New Bield, as part of Northamptonshire’s Cultural Olympiad Igniting Ambition programme.

ENCOUNTERS features work by Jitish Kallat, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen/Paula Boulton, Rebecca Lee, Graeme Miller, Shane Waltener and Caroline Wright; installations by students from Meadowside Primary School and Keely Mills; and artist led walks by Rebecca Lee, Alison Lloyd and Sue Stewart.

The bulletin also contains information about our development of Sudborough Green Lodge into an arts, research and education laboratory as well as details of how to submit work for the next Open Online exhibition.

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You can also read all of our previous bulletins here or on Issuu here

BBC Radio Northampton are following our two weeks of artistic activity along the Grand Union Canal and river Nene.

Listen below to a recording of a broadcast from the drive time slot on Wednesday 13 July, recorded live on board our narrow boat Ebony, as we moored up in Stoke Bruerne and struggled to tune in.

Keep following BBC Radio Northampton for further coverage.

Click here to listen to the original broadcast
(between 35:25 – 38:07).

23 July, 6-8pm
Blisworth Tunnel, Grand Union Canal, between Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth

As part of Interchange, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art’s fortnight of artistic activity and dialogue along the Grand Union Canal and River Nene in Northamptonshire, David Littler will be working with vocal percussionist Jason Singh to create a new sound piece with projections of visualised sound onto the walls of the tunnel, responding to the natural acoustics and echo of the third longest tunnel in the UK.
 

The event is free however booking is recommended due to limited availabilty.

To book, or for further information, please contact

Last August, thanks to Fermynwoods Contemporary Art and Corby Borough Council, children from Corby took part in an animation project led by the Tate galleries and Aardman Animation to create The Tate Movie, an animation film made by and for children in the UK.

The completed film ‘The Itch of the Golden Nit‘ is now available to view on BBC iPlayer until 4:54pm on Tuesday 19th July.

Eleven-year-old Beanie’s bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.

Featuring a cast of David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall.