NORTHUMBERLAND National Park is working in partnership to support the region’s arts sector by commissioning three emerging local artists to produce pieces for a new, immersive, geolocated soundwalk through the Northumbrian landscape along Hadrian’s Wall. Collision & Conflict uses ECHOES: an interactive, GPS-triggered sound app; users follow a 2-2.5hrs circular sound walk starting at Walltown Country Park and along Hadrian’s Wall national trail. Listeners experience the landscape through their headphones and hear music, sound, storytelling and spoken word connected to specific locations on the route, including Thirlwall Castle, Green Croft Arts, Greenhead, and Carvoran Roman Fort. Green Croft Arts - a not-for-profit organisation based in Greenhead - offers arts, culture and wellbeing activities to rural communities and has commissioned 14 artists to create nine creative responses to the landscape. Each artist has a strong link to Northumberland and Cumbria and were taske
Northumberland National Park Authority partners with creative programme Art Diamonds
The winning entry of a competition The Arts Diamond group took part in which encouraged them to create their own poems and illustrations to capture their feelings evoked by the Lost Words. Northumberland National Park Authority has partnered with the Art Diamonds project to help people of retirement age get creative and connect with nature. Art Diamonds is a programme of creative activities and events for people of retirement age led by Gateshead Council’s Libraries, Arts and Heritage Service. The project has almost 200 members who take part in arts activities to help improve their wellbeing.