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SUNDAY 28 MAY EVENTS
Holloways and Hide-aways - Walk
Sara Trillo
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10.30am - 12pm
Starting - 7. The Village Café, EAST COKER
Booking Required £5
Sara Trillo will be leading walks around the holloways in East Coker, sharing stories inspired by local folklore, and in particular speculating on drovers’ and smugglers’ paths, hiding places, disguises, and smugglers’ tales. She will be wearing a specially made costume inspired by the local landscape, and in the spirit of a pilgrimage, walkers will receive a unique clay talisman to mark their participation. Each walk will be circular in nature, with the meeting point at The Village Café in East Coker. The walks will be at a gentle pace with regular stops to share stories.
Something to hold on to - Talisman making OSR Projects Young Potters
10.30am - 1pm
1. Dawe’s Twineworks, WEST COKER
Booking Required £3
Make your own clay talisman with OSR Projects young potters. Taking inspiration from Sara Trillo’s Holloways and Hide-aways, you will be guided by local school children to make your own commemorative keepsake. Talismans are traditionally portable objects endowed with magical properties, usually to protect the owner, made to fit comfortably in the hand, something to hold tightly whilst walking. Imagine smugglers navigating the dark leafy lanes at night, slightly fearful of being discovered, but given courage by holding a talisman as they walk.
Seaweed in the Fruit Locker - Performance
12-2pm
1. Dawe’s Twineworks, WEST COKER
FREE - No booking required
You will be entertained by Seaweed in the Fruit Locker LGBTQIA+ sea shanty choir. The choir have used their lived experience to rework existing shanties and inspire new ones, continuing the tradition of these hybrid folk songs being adapted time and again through generations and across cultures.
The Plant Exchange
Marcia Teusink
10.30am - 5.30pm
1. Dawe’s Twineworks, WEST COKER
FREE - No booking required
Although ostensibly rooted in one place, plants twist and turn as they respond to light and grow. They spread slowly on their own, or get transported longer distances with the help of wind, birds, animals and people. For the duration of the Od Arts Festival, a plant exchange will be set up inviting visitors to donate and/or adopt plants and cuttings for free.
Drawing from and with plants
Marcia Teusink
2pm - 3pm -
1. Dawe’s Twineworks, WEST COKER
Booking Required £5
Participants are invited to take some time to slow down and closely observe everyday plants from around the site of the Twineworks, using sticks and other plants parts to draw with ink.
