Aviva Community Fund has provided £14,530 of match funding
Human-Nature Connect 2023
London, England, United Kingdom
Aim
3 - 5 day ecological residencies for artists and somatic practitioners to benefit creativity, mental health and the rural environment.
Intercultural Roots invites you as an artist or somatic practitioner to attend 3-5 day ecological residencies to share your practice collectively 'with' the hills, moors, limestone pavements or forests and 'within' the caves, rugged coastal locations, lakes and rivers.*
How to Participate
Choose the residency 'Reward' you would like to receive and make your donation. On your smartphone click on the 'Rewards' tab towards the top of this page.
or
Apply to join the waiting list for free Bursary places depending on your financial circumstances (see below).
Our Human-Nature Connect (H-NC) residencies mostly include:
- shared room bunk-bed accommodation
- meals
- facilitation
- opportunities for photography and filming
- local transportation as required
- outdoors health & safety support and equipment as required.
We also actively engage in sustainable ways of supporting the land, local artists and economies where the residencies are held.
Note: the match funding we receive from the Aviva Community Fund is a vital part that allows each residency to raise enough funds to be able to go ahead. If you wish to support and attend more than one residency please Contact us.
*Most of the residencies involve some moderately challenging physical ability such as being able to walk for 30 minutes or more on rough terrain, hills or into caves. You will also be required to bring outdoor clothing and footwear suitable for the activities you will be undertaking as well as a sleeping bag, towel etc. You will be responsible for making your own way to the accommodation with the possibility of pick-up's at local train stations.
Upcoming Residencies in 2023
19 - 21 May 2023, 'Butoh in Nature', Dartmoor National Park
In this residency workshop, facilitated by Zöe Binetti, we will be creating danced theatre from an involvement with nature, textures, rhythms, touch, ideas, and the spaces in between. We will dance for a weekend in the beautiful landscape of Dartmoor National Park. More information here at the Facebook Event. No bursaries available for this partner event.
Camping and Shared Room accommodation options available.
26 - 30 May 2023 - Rhossili, The Gower Peninsula, Wales (fully booked unless camping)
Including 'Worm’s Head', Rhossili’s dragon-shaped island - a rugged coastal location. We hope to invite local Welsh artists to visit. The accommodation is now booked (18 people maximum). Photo Colin Smith (cc-by-sa/2.0).
The residency accommodation is now fully booked.
Contact us if you'd like to attend via camping.
11 - 14 June 2023 - Rydal Hall, Ambleside, The Lake District
Subsidised and Bursary places are available now. Room for 23 people in The Bunkhouse.
Early July 2023 - closed residency
Image: Searching fire damage at the Clear Lake Fire Site, California 1999.
In this closed workshop, Primary Films explores the ecologies of living and participating in our environments, thinking about media for growth from soil to space to image to text. The residency builds and explores devising with film as a tool for developing relations among people, animals, objects, and the natural and digital worlds.
This is a closed residency for Primary Films only.
1 - 4 September 2023 - Grange Farm Bunk Barn, Hubberholme, Yorkshire Dales
Subsidised and Bursary places are available now. Room for 13 people in the Bunk House.
12 - 15 October 2023 - Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Subsidised and Bursary places are available now. Room for 25 people at Timberlodge.
How to Participate
Choose the residency 'Reward' you would like to receive and make your donation. On your smartphone click on the 'Rewards' tab towards the top of this page.
or
Apply to join the waiting list for free Bursary places depending on your financial circumstances (see below).
Note: the match fund we receive from the Aviva Community Fund is a vital part that allows each residency to raise enough funds to be able to go ahead. If you wish to support and attend more than one residency please Contact us.
*Most of the residencies involve some moderately challenging physical ability such as being able to walk for 30 minutes or more on rough terrain, hills or into caves. You will also be required to bring outdoor clothing and footwear suitable for the activities you will be undertaking as well as a sleeping bag, towel etc. You will be responsible for making your own way to the accommodation with the possibility of pick-up's at local train stations.
Free Bursary Places
Artists who cannot afford the £200 donation and would like to apply for a free Bursary place please Contact us briefly sharing why you would like a Bursary, your artistic experience and which residency you are interested in. You will be added to our waiting list and contacted should a Bursary place become available. If you are able to make a donate-what-you-can-afford amount please also let us know how much you can afford. As a reminder, we cannot support the cost of travel your expenses.
Sponsor a Bursary Place
Please donate any amount you like to help sponsor a Bursary place. Your donation will be match-funded by Aviva (up to £250 but you can donate more than this if you wish) and subsidised by Intercultural Roots to help provide free Bursary places for practitioners who otherwise could not afford to attend.
“My bone minerals meet the limestone minerals - beyond time and space." Andrea
"The sunset as we emerged from a cave near Ribbleshead Viaduct was magical." Alex
Our first H-NC residency was in Ingleton in November 2022 and we had 70 applicants for the 30 places available. With your support, the match funding from the Aviva Community Fund and Intercultural Roots' subsidies we will be able to deliver more residencies during 2023 and thereby benefit the mental health and wellbeing of practitioners, providing them with a once in a lifetime opportunity to be with the natural environment and their collective practices in uniquely beneficial and transformative ways.
"I am so grateful to have been a part of this group, to have met with everyone within the Yorkshire landscape. I vow to maintain this spirit of adventure. In opening my heart, different parts of myself were able to surface." Tessa
People with Disabilities or Impairments
Intercultural Roots is currently consulting with artists who are disabled or have impairments to organise targeted, accessible residencies for 2024. Given the specialist accommodation, care and support required we are actively applying for funding now to support this intention. If you would like to support this call for funding or be placed on a waiting list for a more accessible residency to suit your needs please Contact us.
About us:
Intercultural Roots is a partnership of two charities each registered with the Charity Commission in the UK to operate worldwide. Intercultural Roots for Public Health (Registered Charity No. 1179885). Intercultural Roots for Traditional Embodied Arts (Registered Charity No. 1146653). https://interculturalroots.org/about-us
Human-Nature Connect, Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales 4-6 November 2022.
This project successfully funded on 17th March 2023