Unlocking Hidden Heritage

Community historic landscape survey and research in the Bassenthwaite Lake water catchment.

On 31st March 2007, the Unlocking Hidden Heritage project was launched at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. The event was well attended with over 50 local volunteers. Click here to visit the webpage of the Unlocking Hidden Heritage project.

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Fashion from the Landscape

Using fashion and art as a means of involving young people in exciting outdoor activity in the catchment of Bassenthwaite Lake.

Young people will design and show fashion inspired by different elements of the landscape of the catchment, thereby showing and developing their own perceptions of cultural identity and landscape. There will be three interactive events (from a shortlist of 4 per year), each year for three years and these will be seasonal, spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Cultural Exchange

Exchange of Ideas and Experience with other European Regions

‘Cultural Exchange’ is a cross-cutting project to be utilised by all the elements of Bassenthwaite Reflections. The project is designed to enable reciprocal visits for trainees, students and trainers/ teachers between the Bassenthwaite Lake catchment and 30 European states

Seach for the Norse Impact on the Cultural Landscape

Engaging young people in the investigation of the Norse impact on the Cultural Landscape of the catchment.

The project uses the theme of the Norse / Viking / Anglo-Scandinavian impact, or probable impact, as a means of involving young people in active outdoor activity in the catchment of Bassenthwaite Lake. They will work with historians, cultural landscape analysts, farmers, foresters and planners to investigate a number of physical structures and traditions, which might be traceable to Norse settlement. There is a strong emphasis on custom, tradition, legend, dialect and literature.

What's in a Name

Investigation and Celebration of Place Names in the Bassenthwaite Water Catchment

The project seeks to use community-selected placenames as a basis and catalyst for developing a new local festival. The events will involve locals, visitors and especially young people in outdoor activity in the catchment of Bassenthwaite Lake.

Upstream

A 'Cultural Journey' for young people through the Bassenthwaite Catchment

In the summer of 2007, a group of young Cumbrians will travel to Slovakia to complete a cultural journey through the Ipel' River catchment. During the autumn of 2007, a reciprocal group of Slovakians will join the Cumbrian group for a seven-day cultural journey through the Bassenthwaite catchment.

Lost in the Woods

Investigating, celebrating and re-training in traditional 'lost' woodland skills.

The project will investigate and assemble an archive of former traditional uses of woodlands in the catchment of Bassenthwaite Lake. Local people will be asked to bring their memories and images / pictures to workshops to kick start the project.

There will be a series of one to three day training courses (offered each year for 3 years) to inform, raise awareness and begin the process of re-introducing lost skills.