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When I came to the Place - a mapping activity across the seasonsLouella, Kian, JacAt the heart of a cross arts project is the skill of direct observation and the development of this runs through all the activities. This mapping exercise is a way of encouraging children and adults to look closely at their immediate surroundings and particularly to notice how these change with the seasons. It was planned as a continual seasonal activity throughout the workshop programme and could result in presentation or exhibition of the maps. In this project these maps were developed by the adult groups into large batiked panels of silk which recorded the seasonal changes of the estuary. Each group was given a piece of card and a different short route to map. They returned to the same route each season. The routes included three stopping places to be chosen by the group. Before leaving they read an observation poem. Guidelines:
MaterialsCard for map - approx 1m x 40cms This mapping activity was first developed during the cross arts weekends held at Northcourt Manor, and devised by writer Philip Gross and artist Zelie Gross. On that occasion, we spent most of the weekend engaged in mapping. In a final session, each group presented the others with their map and read individual and collaborative poems based on their journeys. During the Estuary project we devoted two hours of each visit to this activity. After the first visit we used an adapted, shorter version of the activity:
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