Stratford arts trail
“Shakespeare through the ages”
Opens Sunday 22nd April 2012
Vision
To develop a town interactive walking trail using mainly existing paths and infrastructure to provide a means of festival re discovery for locals and encourage visitors to dwell and take time to appreciate the creative art and festival culture of our fascinating town. By forming this trail we will unite many community groups through story, song, history, Art, drama and nature and give our festival an interactive presence 365 days of the year. This trail will be a central link in moving the festival through the town helping incorporate local businesses during the festival.
Strategy
Using the skills of the Stratford community we will create a simple walking route. Guided by a basic DL postcard map and MP3 player, we will send visitors and locals on individual guided tours that can be travelled over 5 times with a totally different experience each time while encouraging exercise, art, history and imagination encouraging involvement through a blog linked to our website.
How it works
$3 single & $10 family (2 x Adults & 2 x Children), covers MP3 hire from the Court Gallery and Complementary Map/Postcard
User selects the walk commentary from– Artist statements– Theatrical Drama – Music – Story– History.
Each walk takes the same route with Ten Tracks or segments on MP3 e.g. Listen to the story within the thought spaces, and be entertained by songs while walking between points. Next time listen to the Artist statements while viewing the work in the spaces and Shakespeare sonnets between them on your walk. Once participants reach each of the thought spaces they will be encouraged and inspired to think about or create their own stories to be shared and used within the festival.
Art- Using three local artists we would commission 9 sculptured spaces to be strategically positioned along the trail (red dots) and utilise the WOMB sculptures on the Northern end of McMillan Street .
Music- We would use the 10 tracks already recorded by local song writers for the Shakespeare association in 2010 in collaboration with Charles Jenkins.
Story - Using local children’s author David Luxford we would adapt a 10 chapter story line of discovery for children incorporating the sculpture and nature. Copies of this story would be for sale in the gallery.
History – We will utilise existing Historic society to provide information on the architectural history narrated on mp3
OPENS APRIL 22nd 2012
The Whole World is A Stage
