Goonhillygrams with Phyllida Bluemel
Goonhilly Village Green, 2019
Photos: Artur Tixiliski
Authorial illustrator Phyllida Bluemel led a series of cosmic creative writing workshops as part of Goonhilly Village Green 2019. They took place at The Museum of Cornish Life in Helston for The Community Heritage Programme and on Goonhilly Downs during The Gathering.
Phyllida invited participants to bring their tales of Goonhilly and unearth new secrets with their imagination to write new myths for faraway civilisations. Together they traced and translated wiggling radio waves and messages in morse, created alphabets for aliens and codes for keeping in touch!
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Phyllida invited participants to bring their tales of Goonhilly and unearth new secrets with their imagination to write new myths for faraway civilisations. Together they traced and translated wiggling radio waves and messages in morse, created alphabets for aliens and codes for keeping in touch!
As part of the workshops, Phyllida developed two worksheets inviting participants to create their own cipher and write a coded message. You can download the sheets here if you would like to try this for yourself.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Goonhilly Village Green was an experimental project led by artists Sara Bowler and Elizabeth Masterton and produced by Field Notes. In 2019, 5 artists were commissioned to work with partner organisations and a programme of talks and workshops took place in locations on the Lizard and in nearby towns, ahead of The Gathering, a village fete style event, on Goonhilly Village Green on 18th May.
Goonhilly Village Green was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, FEAST, Ernest Cook Trust Enviroment & Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter and the Elmgrant Trust, and in partnership with Natural England, GES Ltd., The Museum of Cornish Life, Trelowarren Estate, Lizard Outreach Trust and Goonhilly Heritage Society.
Goonhilly Village Green was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, FEAST, Ernest Cook Trust Enviroment & Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter and the Elmgrant Trust, and in partnership with Natural England, GES Ltd., The Museum of Cornish Life, Trelowarren Estate, Lizard Outreach Trust and Goonhilly Heritage Society.
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