This document outlines the goals and timeline of the Life Cycles & Landscapes project, which aims to create an ambitious new large-scale artistic work inspired by the Icknield Way trail. The project will involve performances, visual art, digital media, and engage artists and audiences in the landscape. It is a strategic partnership between Activate Performing Arts and the National Association of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty to develop artists' skills in landscape-focused outdoor arts. The timeline details research, residencies, and public programs from 2016-2019, culminating in a presentation as part of Inside Out Dorset in 2018. The goals are to increase the number of landscape artists, commission a new work called "The Way," and integrate arts

1. Life Cycles & Landscapes

2. Harmonic Fields – Pierre Sauvageot / Lieux
Publics – Portland, Inside Out Dorset 2012

3. Activate Performing Arts
• Produce, promote and develops the performing arts in Dorset
• We believe that artists can affect and provide positive change in our
communities

4. The Remix inclusive performance company.
Photo: Activate

5. Harmonic Fields—Pierre Sauvageot, Inside Out Dorset
2012

6. Carabosse – Fire Gardens, Inside Out Dorset in Bournemouth – 2007
Photo: Roy Riley

7. The Rock Charmer, Paper Cinema & Kimmo Pjohnen,
Inside Out Dorset 2010. Photo: Roy Riley

8. Dorset AONB Credit: English Heritage

9. The White Hare – Sarah Butterworth, Inside Out Dorset 2014

10. Inside Out Dorset 2014 Documentary

12. Life Cycles & Landscapes – Aims:
• To explore the incredible ancient 400 mile original ‘super-highway’ - The
Icknield Way* as an inspiration for an ambitious new large scale artistic
work; professional development focused on the landscape
• A strategic agreement between outdoor arts and AONBs nationally
• The artistic creation will comprise a number of interventions in the
landscape with audiences, bringing together performative, visual, digital
and live artists to an artistic experience that will include animating the
landscape
• The project will have talent development at its heart for artists, producers
and technicians and we will develop a strong cohort of diverse
practitioners in outdoor arts in the South/East England with expertise in
embedded landscape-led practice.

13. Life Cycles & Landscapes
• Ambition for Excellence, HLF
• Primary Partners:
Activate
And Now:
‘Landscapes for Life’ the National Association of AONBs
Dorset, Cranborne Chase, North Wessex Downs, Chilterns and Norfolk
Coast AONBs
Secondary partners: Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Oerol Festival, Holland

14. Overview Timeline
• 2016 – 2017: Research and development, creative labs and
residencies
• May – September 2018: large public programme

15. 2016/17
• June 2016 Outcome of Ambition for Excellence funding bid
• July 2016 Landscapes for Life Conference 2016 – Shropshire
• September 2016 Inside Out Dorset 2016 –
And Now lab/residency & Partners Meeting 1 - Dorset
• Winter 16/17 2 talent development labs/residencies before end March
2017

16. 2017/18
• Jan/Feb 2017 And Now meetings on Terschelling with Oerol Festival
• June 2017 Now Now development project – residency leading into
presenting at Oerol. Partners Meeting 2 - Holland
• July 2017 Landscapes for Life Conference 2017
• Across the year: 2 further week long lab/residencies & integrated And Now
shadowing programme
• November 2017 Input into ISAN conference – focus on outdoor landscape
work

17. 2018/19 - Major moment year
• May 2018 Norfolk presentation with Norfolk & Norwich Festival
• July 2018 Landscapes for Life Conference 2018 – possible input into 5 year
management plans for April 2019 onwards
• Summer 2018 2 further presentations in different AONBs along the Ickneild Way
route between Norfolk and Dorset
• September 2018 Final presentation as part of Inside Out Dorset on the Ridgeway
Symposium – industry focus event with partners in Dorset
• Oct – Dec 2018 Reflection & Evaluation

18. And Now:

19. And Now: Shoal for SO Festival
Photo: Nick Read

20. And Now: Shoal for SO Festival
Photo: Nick Read

21. And Now: Fleeting for Brighton Festival
Finale Photo: The Brighton Argus

22. And Now: Gold Frankinsence & Myrrh
for Kew Gardens Photo: Mandy Dike
And Now: Inspiral for Wilderness
Festival Photo: Sian Williams

23. And Now: Barrow for Activate/Inside Out
Dorset Photo: Tony Gill

24. And Now: Barrow for Activate/Inside Out Dorset
Photo: Tony Gill

25. The AONB landscapes:

26. South Dorset Ridgeway

29. Outcomes:
• Increase number of artists/producers working in rural/landscape
contexts - 40 artists/practitioners – with national reach/impact.
• A significant artistic commission ‘The Way’ - putting landscape/rural
work on the map.
• Increased opportunities to present/commission outdoor arts in AONB
landscapes.
• Integration of arts into AONB Partnership and Conservation Board
strategic plans nationally.

30. Thank You
Kate Wood
Executive and Artistic Director – Activate Performing Arts
www.activateperformingarts.org.uk