Creative Nature Corridors Workshop
Help people connect with nature, understand landscape change, strengthen wellbeing and become active participants in the future of the Yorkshire Dales.
When: Tuesday 24th November, 10.30 – 2.30
Where: Malham Tarn Estate, Orchid House, BD24 9PT
Parking: ///overused.gangs.motivates at High Stables but preferably leave cars at Quarry Car Park ///scream.request.select and car share onto the Estate, drop people and then park at High Stables owing it being a small staff car park.
What:
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Nature themed activity
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Synopsis of introduction workshop in July
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Where we are now and aims for the next 12 months
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Project kick-start brief - a small paid project to kick start momentum…
Refreshments and cake will be provided.
Attendance Fee: £50 plus mileage at 0.45 per mile will be paid (but car sharing is encouraged).
Creative Corridor: From Ideas to Action - What's Next?
At our last Creative Corridor workshop, we explored how creativity could help people connect with nature, understand landscape change, strengthen wellbeing and become active participants in the future of the Yorkshire Dales. At this session we will feedback the findings, the clear vision from everyone that creativity is the mechanism to help people understand, experience and participate in landscape recovery and we will discuss what’s next.
There was a real sense that creativity could be much more than a series of individual projects. Together, we began to imagine a connected creative network – one that links people, places, stories and ideas across the Dales, with each activity creating new connections and opportunities for the next.
Our next workshop is about moving from inspiration to the next steps. We have an exciting opportunity we'd like to get underway straight away – something tangible that can give us a starting point, test what's possible and help build momentum.
But we're also looking further ahead. We want to use the workshop to explore what we could create together from the ideas generated at the first meeting, over the next 12 months. What opportunities could we unlock? Which people and communities could we connect with? How might one creative project lead to another, passing ideas, skills, inspiration and connections between people and places?
Think of it a little like the roots of a tree, or the underground threads of mycelium: individual projects connected to something bigger, sharing resources and creating the conditions for new things to grow.
This isn't about creating a single destination or a programme of disconnected events. It's about building a creative corridor across North Yorkshire that grows through collaboration – with artists, communities, schools, organisations and partners all contributing to something that can reach further than any one of us could achieve alone.
Come along, bring your ideas, your curiosity and your creative connections. Let's see what we can get growing together.