🎥 Films are powerful. This one, celebrating the culmination of 2 years of exploring ocean literacy and stewardship, environmental community building, skills development and creativity is a powerful one too.
🎉 Watch the celebration and culmination of Happier Blue Spaces, a film made with the East End community of Plymouth to share what the community has thought, loved, and benefitted from with our community embedded and led marine activist project - Happier Blue Spaces.
🎨 Over 2 years, we work with artists (like Cooking Sections, Far Flung Dance Theatre, Simon James and lots of Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall artists of social practice) to collaborate and investigate our ocean and work a little harder to get a little closer to it.
🌊 We rock pooled and photographed, we went on boat trips while drawing watercolours, we paddle boarded and saw exhibitions, we beach cleaned and crafted, we made illustrations and books together, we sang shanties and had silent discos, we went to science talks and looked the the ocean through microscopes, we took virtual tours and ate a lot of food from the local caf. We met LOTS of new people in our neighbourhood and we made friends because of the sea.
🙏 Huge thanks to East End Community Development Trust, Prince Rock Primary and Salisbury Road Primary Schools, Coxside Residents Arts Board (CRAB), Age UK Plymouth, Ocean Conservation Trust, and Plymouth Sound National Marine Park. With the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Devon Community Foundation and The Rank Foundation we were able to celebrate the joy the ocean brings and learn together how supporting it a little more where you live means you can enjoy it for longer - together.
🎬 Watch now! https://lnkd.in/g_5vFG_X
